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Vincent Ball (born 4 December 1923, Wee Waa, New South Wales), is an Australian-born character actor. He served as a pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force in England, before entering amateur dramatics and repertory. He was given a role as a stand-in in the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon. Joining RADA, he played mostly supporting and uncredited roles in the UK for two decades. Returning to Australia in the 1970s, he performed in a variety of cinema and television roles before retiring in 2003. In April 2015, at the age of 91, he came out of retirement to play a WWII veteran in an episode of the Australian soap Home and Away.
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Vincent Ball (born 4 December 1923, Wee Waa, New South Wales), is an Australian-born character actor. He served as a pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force in England, before entering amateur dramatics and repertory. He was given a role as a stand-in in the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon. Joining RADA, he played mostly supporting and uncredited roles in the UK for two decades. Returning to Australia in the 1970s, he performed in a variety of cinema and television roles before retiring in 2003. In April 2015, at the age of 91, he came out of retirement to play a WWII veteran in an episode of the Australian soap Home and Away.
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The Night We Called It a Day (2003)
, 1h37Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia DeGeneres, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, David Hemmings
Roles Rex Hooper
Rating57%
In 1974, Rod Blue is a surfer with shoulder-length hair in Sydney, Australia who also stages rock concerts, unsuccessfully most of the time. Needing a big idea, he decides to fly to Los Angeles, make himself more presentable and try to persuade Frank Sinatra to come to Australia to sing.
Black and White (2002)
, 1h39Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, David Ngoombujarra, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn
Roles Chief Justice Napier
Rating66%
Based on real events, it tells the story of Max Stuart (Ngoombujarra), a young aboriginal man who was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of a nine-year-old girl on what was considered questionable evidence. It follows the fight by his lawyers David O'Sullivan (Carlyle) and Helen Devaney (Fox) to save Stuart from execution, as well as Crown Prosecutor, Roderic Chamberlain's (Dance) efforts to convict Stuart. Rohan Rivett editor of an Adelaide paper, The News, and its publisher, Rupert Murdoch (Ben Mendelsohn) also feature as leading the public response in the campaign to save Stuart.
The Man Who Sued God (2001)
, 1h42Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Judy Davis, Billy Connolly, Emily Browning, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, Bille Brown
Roles Cardinal
Rating63%
Advocate Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits the law business and buys a small fishing boat and takes up fishing for a living. His fishing boat is struck by lightning and explodes into pieces, burns and sinks. He informs his insurance company, which reviews and then subsequently declines his claim on the grounds that it is not liable as his fishing boat was destroyed due to an "Act of God".
Paradise Road (1997)
, 1h54Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Political films, Women in prison films
Actors Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Johanna ter Steege, Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett
Roles Mr. Dickson
Rating67%
Après l'invasion de Singapour par l'armée impériale japonaise en 1942, des Anglaises, des Australiennes, des Chinoises et des Néerlandaises sont incarcérées dans des camps avec leurs enfants et certaines d'entre elles sont enrôlées comme femmes de réconfort. Bien qu'elles viennent toutes d'horizons différents, un groupe de prisonnières décide d'organiser un orchestre de chant pour tromper le désespoir et faire face aux exactions de leurs ravisseurs.
Sirens (1994)
, 1h36Directed by John Duigan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson, Portia DeGeneres, Kate Fischer
Roles Bishop of Sydney
Rating58%
Tony, an Anglican priest newly arrived in Australia from England, is asked to visit the notorious artist Norman Lindsay, out of the church's concern about a blasphemous painting of the crucifix that the artist plans to exhibit.
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
, 1h46Directed by Paul John Hogan
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about marriage
Actors Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Sophie Lee, Jeanie Drynan, Daniel Lapaine
Roles Priest
Rating71%
A socially awkward, overweight, naïve "ugly duckling", who is obsessed with the music of ABBA, Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) is the target of ridicule by the more fashion-conscious girls she considers her friends. She also is a perpetual daydreamer who yearns for a glamorous wedding and marriage to a man who will help improve her personal life and free her from a tedious life dominated by her demanding and often psychologically abusive father Bill (Bill Hunter), a corrupt politician who verbally lashes out at his subservient wife Betty and their unambitious children at every opportunity.
Frauds (1993)
, 1h34Directed by Stephan Elliott
Origin Australie
Genres Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Actors Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Mochrie, Colleen Clifford, Vincent Ball
Roles Judge
Rating59%
The film tells the story of insurance investigator Roland Copping and how he interferes with and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
Love In Limbo (1993)
, 1h39Genres Comedy
Actors Aden Young, Russell Crowe, Martin Colin Sacks, Vincent Ball
Roles Cyril Williams
Rating54%
It's the 1950s – the era of rock 'n' roll and the birth of the teenager – and three friends have their minds on just one thing...oh, and losing their virginity. Expelled from school after his lucrative sideline in nude female drawings is discovered, sixteen-year-old Ken (Craig Adams) is sent to work for his uncle's clothing company. Desperate to ape the wooing techniques of office lothario Max, Ken hilariously comes a cropper in love...until he decides that a visit to a brothel is the only answer. Libidos run rampant as he teams up with mates Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young) on a trip to Kaligoorlie's infamous red light district. Romance isn't only in the minds of the youngsters however, as smitten by the 'Max' factor, Ken's glamorous mother embarks on an affair of her own. Will sexual fantasy live up to the reality for all concerned.
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
, 1h43Directed by John Duigan
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Judi Farr, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran
Roles Headmaster
Rating72%
In the 1960s, Danny (Noah Taylor), a thin, socially awkward adolescent, falls in love with his best friend Freya (Loene Carmen) in rural New South Wales, Australia. Unfortunately, she is attracted to Trevor (Ben Mendelsohn), a high school rugby star, larrikin and petty criminal who helps Danny with the school bullies. Shortly after sleeping with Freya at the abandoned house, Trevor steals a car for a joyride and is arrested and sent to juvenile detention; it is while he is away that Freya reveals to Danny that she is pregnant. Danny offers to marry her and claim that the child is his, but Freya refuses, saying that she does not want to marry anyone. Meanwhile, intrigued by a locket left to Freya by an elderly friend of theirs who recently died -engraved "SEA"- Danny begins to investigate the town's past, and discovers a lone cross in the cemetery bearing those initials, belonging to a "Sara Elizabeth Amery," who died days after Freya was born. Through inquiries with his parents, Danny learns that Sara was something of the town prostitute years ago, and that she was Freya's biological mother, who died trying to give birth by herself at the abandoned house.
Double Sculls (1986)
, 1h34Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Chris Haywood, John Hargreaves, Vincent Ball, Bill Kerr, Alex Broun, Colleen Clifford
Roles Stuart
Rating64%
Call Me Mr. Brown (1985)
, 1h25Directed by Scott Hicks
Actors Chris Haywood, John Noble, Vincent Ball, Bill Hunter, John Polson, Edwin Hodgeman
Roles Captain Ritchie
Rating59%
Anzacs (TV series) (1985)
Themes Political films
Actors Bill Kerr, Tony Bonner, Shane Briant, Jim Holt, Wayne Jarratt, Vincent Ball
Roles Sir Rupert Barrington
Rating80%
1914. Western District of Victoria (Australia). Martin Barrington, the son of a wealthy British-born land-owner Sir Rupert Barrington (who still thought of himself as a "British") and his wife Lady Thea Barrington, returns home early from university studies with plans to move north to the family's Queensland property in a bid to up the quality of their livestock. His best friend, stockman Dick Baker, initially agrees to move with him, but later wants to enlist to fight in the Great War which has just begun in Europe, and Martin agrees to follow (after turning down a commission as 2nd lieutenant in his father's old British rifle regiment), joined by Dick's sister (and Martin's childhood sweetheart) Kate, who will become an army nurse. The two friends enlist and they form part of the 8th Battalion, 3rd platoon led by former schoolteacher and now Lieutenant Harold Armstrong and former football star and now Sargeant Tom McArthur. Other members of the platoon include quiet and studious Roly Collins, Englishman Bill Harris, cynical, wise-cracking drover Pat Cleary and the Danish-born Johansen brothers. Sgt McArthur soon becomes unpopular with his short temper and aggressive manner, but, whilst drunk one night off-duty, he tells of his miserable childhood growing up with an alcoholic father who had been crippled in the Boer War.
Bodyline (miniseries) (1984)
, 50minutesDirected by Lex Marinos, George Ogilvie, Carl Schultz
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Sweet, Hugo Weaving, Jim Holt, Frank Thring, Heather Mitchell, Ashok Banthia
Roles Joseph Lyons, the Prime Minister of Australia
Rating83%
The events leading up to the England Cricket Team's 1932-1933 Ashes tour of Australia and the tactics, of bowling directly at the batsman, used by the English cricket team to counteract the extraordinary batting prowess of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman during the Ashes series.