Acting
Marshall Napier
Born October 22, 1951 · New Zealand
Died August 14, 2022 · aged 70
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marshall James Napier is a New Zealand actor. He is the father of actress Jessica Napier and the uncle of actor James Napier. Before becoming an actor, Napier worked variously as an art student, factory worker and truck driver. In 1988, he moved with his wife and two children, Reuben and Jessica, to Australia, to pursue a career in acting, and has worked in…
Known For
Battletruck · 1982Battletruck
★ 4.61982
MovieScience FictionAction
It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
Babe · 1995Babe
★ 6.31995
MovieFantasyDrama
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Down Under · 2016Down Under
★ 6.32016
MovieComedy
A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
Jack Irish: Bad Debts · 2012Jack Irish: Bad Debts
★ 6.52012
MovieCrimeDrama
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
The Clinic · 2010The Clinic
★ 5.62010
MovieMysteryHorror
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Little Monsters · 2019Little Monsters
★ 6.52019
MovieHorrorComedy
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
The Light Between Oceans · 2016The Light Between Oceans
★ 7.12016
MovieDramaRomance
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Swimming Lessons · 1995Swimming Lessons
1995
MovieDrama
The story of jaded swimming coach and a spirited seven-year-old delinquent who comes under his instruction.
Movies
Battletruck · 1982Battletruck
★ 4.61982
MovieScience FictionAction
It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
Babe · 1995Babe
★ 6.31995
MovieFantasyDrama
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Down Under · 2016Down Under
★ 6.32016
MovieComedy
A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
Jack Irish: Bad Debts · 2012Jack Irish: Bad Debts
★ 6.52012
MovieCrimeDrama
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
The Clinic · 2010The Clinic
★ 5.62010
MovieMysteryHorror
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Little Monsters · 2019Little Monsters
★ 6.52019
MovieHorrorComedy
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
The Light Between Oceans · 2016The Light Between Oceans
★ 7.12016
MovieDramaRomance
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Swimming Lessons · 1995Swimming Lessons
1995
MovieDrama
The story of jaded swimming coach and a spirited seven-year-old delinquent who comes under his instruction.
Northspur · 2021Northspur
★ 6.82021
MovieActionDrama
In a violent, post-pandemic world, a peace-loving man is forced on a desperate journey to find life-saving drugs for his wife - but to get them he must first help an ornery old man defend his cabin against all-comers.
I Love You Too · 2010I Love You Too
★ 5.62010
MovieComedyDrama
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
Bellbird · 2019Bellbird
★ 5.82019
MovieComedyDrama
In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.
Race the Sun · 1996Race the Sun
★ 5.21996
MovieAdventureComedy
A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
Goodbye Pork Pie · 1981Goodbye Pork Pie
★ 6.71981
MovieAdventureComedy
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road trip adventure.
Griff the Invisible · 2011Griff the Invisible
★ 5.72011
MovieRomanceComedy
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
Flirting · 1991Flirting
★ 6.71991
MovieDramaRomance
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.
I'm Not Harry Jenson · 2009I'm Not Harry Jenson
★ 7.32009
MovieDramaThriller
Evoking the style and pace of the Noir genre, the film is essentially a murder mystery with Stanley (Gareth Reeves) the prime suspect. Stanley's success as a novelist has been largely due to his style where he writes from the first person perspective of the central characters, who are always the killers in real-life cases. Troubled with writer's block, his agent suggests a tramping trip "to clear his mind". However, when he wakes up on the first morning of his tramp, he finds his fellow tramper dead.
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here · 2011Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here
★ 4.52011
MovieCrimeDrama
Tell Them Lucifer Was Here depicts the tragic murders of Victorian police officers, Gary Silk and Rod Miller which occurred in 1998 and shows the enormous efforts of the Lorimer Task Force in leading the manhunt for their killer or killers.
Black and White · 2002Black and White
★ 6.22002
MovieDrama
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
In a Savage Land · 1999In a Savage Land
★ 4.81999
MovieDrama
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
Dead Heart · 1996Dead Heart
★ 5.81996
MovieMysteryThriller
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
Strange Planet · 1999Strange Planet
★ 4.71999
MovieComedyRomance
Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?
The Big Steal · 1990The Big Steal
★ 5.81990
MovieComedy
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
Lucky Break · 1994Lucky Break
★ 4.71994
MovieComedyRomance
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
Panic at Rock Island · 2011Panic at Rock Island
★ 4.92011
MovieDramaThriller
An island in spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun, top international artists, and tens of thousands of music fans from across the world! Idyllic...until unimaginable disaster strikes.
TV Shows
E Street · 1989E Street
★ 6.71989
SeriesDrama
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
McLeod's Daughters · 2001McLeod's Daughters
★ 7.32001
SeriesDrama
When Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited.
Water Rats · 1996Water Rats
★ 6.21996
SeriesCrimeDrama
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
All Saints · 1998All Saints
★ 6.21998
SeriesDrama
Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
Farscape · 1999Farscape
★ 7.91999
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Police Rescue · 1991Police Rescue
★ 6.71991
SeriesDrama
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
Love Child · 2014Love Child
★ 5.32014
SeriesDrama
The lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s.
Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. Dr Patrick McNaughton is a charismatic head of obstetrics at Kings Cross Hospital. Frances Bolton is the tough matron who also controls the running of Stanton House, a home for unwed pregnant young women.
The Lost World · 1999The Lost World
★ 7.11999
SeriesDrama
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
Rafferty's Rules · 1987Rafferty's Rules
★ 8.01987
SeriesDramaCrime
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.
Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
The Man from Snowy River · 1994The Man from Snowy River
★ 7.11994
SeriesDramaWestern
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.
The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.
Doctor Doctor · 2016Doctor Doctor
★ 7.42016
SeriesDramaComedy
The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite him.
City Homicide · 2007City Homicide
★ 5.92007
SeriesCrimeDrama
City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
Halifax f.p. · 1994Halifax f.p.
★ 6.21994
SeriesDramaMystery
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne.
The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd
21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries.
The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.
Rake · 2010Rake
★ 7.52010
SeriesDramaComedy
Cleaver Greene is not about politics or morality or even justice. Cleaver Greene is about the law. And it is his passion for the law that drives him to use his formidable intelligence to defend people whom society and the justice system might otherwise convict without a fair trial. He uses his encyclopaedic knowledge of human nature and the Byzantine intricacies of our legal codes to guarantee that his clients get what is theirs by the law; the right to a diligent defence.
Blue Murder · 1995Blue Murder
★ 5.61995
SeriesDrama
Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between controversial former Detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith. Rogerson and his colleagues were accused of giving Smith a "green light" to commit crimes without Police interference, with the relationship fraying when Rogerson orders hitman Christopher "Mr. Rent-a-Kill" Flannery to murder Police Officer Michael Drury.
The Girl from Tomorrow · 1992The Girl from Tomorrow
★ 7.21992
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.
Twisted Tales · 1996Twisted Tales
★ 8.01996
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery
Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a twist at the end of the story.
The Moodys · 2014The Moodys
★ 7.62014
SeriesComedy
A comedy series about the lovable, seasonally dysfunctional Moody family. Each episode is set on a different holiday gathering which includes fights, bad gifts, boring uncles, shocking family secrets and bizarre eccentricities.
The Beast · 1996The Beast
★ 6.31996
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.
Stark · 1993Stark
★ 6.61993
SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
The greenhouse effect has plunged the near-future world into recession and the Stark Corporation is making billions from the crisis; an eco protester ends caught up in a global conspiracy involving some Australian land, toxic waste, and a mysterious beauty called Rachel. Based on the novel Stark by Ben Elton.
Adventurer · 1987Adventurer
1987
Series
Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure.
Always Afternoon · 1988Always Afternoon
★ 7.51988
Series
Always Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a co production between Germany and Australia.
It inspired a series of paintings by Ross Watson.