Carol Burns

Acting

Carol Burns

Born October 29, 1947 · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Died December 22, 2015 · aged 68

Carol Burns (29 October 1947 – 22 December 2015) was an Australian actress, theatre director and patron of the arts, with a career spanning 50 years. She worked extensively in theatre and television serials, as well as telemovies and mini-series in Australia and the United Kingdom. In Australia she was a founding member of the Queensland Theatre Company.

Known For

Drive HardDrive Hard · 2014
Drive Hard
4.32014
MovieActionComedy
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
StarstruckStarstruck · 1982
Starstruck
5.41982
MovieComedyDrama
A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.
The TurningThe Turning · 2013
The Turning
5.72013
MovieDrama
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
Small ClaimsSmall Claims · 2004
Small Claims
8.02004
MovieDrama
This movie is about an ex drug dealer on the run. Melinda Fehlers is on the run from her old life. Being known as Leanne in her past this all becoming déjà Vu the people from the past reappear and are here to get her.
Gettin' SquareGettin' Square · 2003
Gettin' Square
6.42003
MovieComedyThriller
Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.
The Mango TreeThe Mango Tree · 1977
The Mango Tree
9.01977
MovieDrama
Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of high school, was brought up by his grandmother. Grandma Carr is known and loved by all in the town, and does her best to help Jamie through the emotional turmoil of adolescence and a society struggling under old traditions and beliefs in a new country.
Bad BloodBad Blood · 1982
Bad Blood
7.01982
MovieThrillerDrama
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
DustyDusty · 1983
Dusty
6.61983
MovieDramaFamily
The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out shepherd, played by Bill Kerr. The dog gives Kerr a reason for living, and vice versa. Be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy for some of the mistier passages of Dusty.

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