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Acting
John Armstrong
Born January 24, 1924 · Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died June 27, 1984 · aged 60
John Armstrong was an Australian actor.
Known For
Wake in Fright · 1971Wake in Fright
★ 7.21971
MovieDramaThriller
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
You Can't See 'round Corners · 1969You Can't See 'round Corners
1969
MovieCrimeDrama
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt with SP bookies at the local pub. This film, shot at Kapooka camp, contains one of the only depictions in Australian cinema of soldiers training for Vietnam.
Dawn! · 1979Dawn!
★ 8.71979
MovieDrama
Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo · 1968Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
★ 6.21968
SeriesFamily
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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