Acting
Shane Withington
Born August 22, 1958 · Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (age 68)
Shane Withington (born 22 August 1958 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian actor.
Known For
Strange Bedfellows · 2004Strange Bedfellows
★ 5.82004
MovieComedy
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
The Black Tulip · 1988The Black Tulip
★ 10.01988
MovieAnimationFamily
Alexander Dumas' classic tale set in 1800s Holland is brought to the screen in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. Watch as Cornelius sets out to grow a black tulip to with the 100,000 guilder prize.
Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale · 2007Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale
★ 7.02007
MovieAnimationFamily
The story of Claude's odyssey to save the Gumnutz Juice factory and Gumtree Lane's future. Along the way he learns the importance of family values and of accepting responsibility for himself and all of the zany characters of Gumtree Lane.
Queen of the Road · 1984Queen of the Road
★ 6.01984
MovieActionComedy
A school teacher quits her job and starts a new life for herself as a truck driver
Blinky Bill's White Christmas · 2005Blinky Bill's White Christmas
★ 4.32005
MovieAnimationFamily
With Christmas just around the corner, everyone in Greenpatch is busily decorating the town square. Blinky Bill is up to his usual mischief and accidentally breaks Wombo's snowdome. To make amends, he decides to give Wombo a treat by creating a white Christmas in Greenpatch with real snow and a real Christmas tree. So Blinky and Flap begin a quest in search of the rare and mysterious Wollemi Pine Forest in order to cut down a tree for the village square in Greenpatch, while Splodge and Nutsy stay at home and, with a variety of outrageous experiments, try to create snow. Will they make snow it in time for Christmas Eve? Join Blinky Bill and his friends as they celebrate the magic of a traditional European White Christmas in the Australian Bush. Extraordinary!
Home and Away · 1988Home and Away
★ 6.41988
SeriesDramaSoap
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
A Country Practice · 1981A Country Practice
★ 5.91981
SeriesSoapDrama
A Country Practice was an Australian television drama series. At its inception, one of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, who had wrote the pilot episode and entered a script contest for the network in 1979, coming third and winning a merit award. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping, Sydney. After its lengthy run on the seven network it was picked up by network ten with a mainly new cast from April to November 1994 for 30 episodes, although the ten series was not as successful as its predecessor . The Channel Seven series was also filmed on location in Pitt Town, while, the Channel Ten series was filmed on location in Emerald, Victoria.
The Flying Doctors · 1986The Flying Doctors
★ 6.61986
SeriesDrama
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish.
The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
