Acting
John Cazabon
Born August 3, 1914 · Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Died June 22, 1983 · aged 68
John Forde Cazabon (3 August 1914 – 22 June 1983) was an English actor and stage writer whose career began in Sydney, Australia. Cazabon was born in Hertford, Hertfordshire, to violinist and composer Albert Cazabon (1883–1970) and Norah Cazabon née Delaney, a professional actress born in Australia. He had an older sister Norah Cazabon and a younger brother Robert Brendan Cazabon (born c. 1919), w…
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Curtain Up · 1952Curtain Up
★ 7.21952
MovieComedy
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
The Shiralee · 1957The Shiralee
★ 5.11957
MovieDrama
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
For Men Only · 1968For Men Only
★ 4.01968
MovieComedy
Freddie Horne loves his job working for a trendy women’s fashion magazine, but his pretty blonde fiancée is getting jealous. To smooth things over Freddie takes a job with the Puritan Magazine Group, an organisation hell-bent on promoting moral reform and ‘family values’. However, the caddish chief executive Miles Fanthorpe is not all he seems. Fanthorpe’s country house is actually full of scantily-clad young women, and he is secretly publishing a girlie magazine!
Mandy · 1952Mandy
★ 7.11952
MovieDrama
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
The Snake Woman · 1961The Snake Woman
★ 4.71961
MovieHorror
A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
Mary Had a Little... · 1961Mary Had a Little...
★ 4.01961
MovieComedy
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
The Crunch · 1964The Crunch
1964
MovieScience FictionTV Movie
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?
Eureka Stockade · 1949Eureka Stockade
★ 6.01949
MovieDramaHistory
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
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