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Wills & Burke

Not Rated
Comedy
8.5/10(2 ratings)

Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.

10-23-1985
1h 38m
Wills & Burke
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Main Cast

Kim Gyngell

Kim Gyngell

Kim Gyngell (born 15 April 1952), sometimes also credited as Kym Gyngell, is an Australian comedian and film, television and stage actor. Gyngell won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1988 for his role as Ian McKenzie in Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

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Mark Little

Mark Little

Mark Little is an Australian actor, comedian and presenter, best known for his role of Joe Mangrll in the Australian soap Neighbours and for presenting The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 in the 90s . Little spent his childhood in rural Queensland, attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, and settled in Britain in 1992. In 2019 Little took part in ITV's celebrity reality series Dancing On Ice and was the first contestant to be voted out.

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Jonathan Hardy

Jonathan Hardy

Jonathan Hardy was a New Zealand film and television actor, writer and director, he worked also in Australia.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman AC (born June 20, 1967) is an American-Australian actress and producer. Known for her work across various film and television productions from several genres, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film Dead Calm and the miniseries Bangkok Hilton. In 1990, she achieved international success with the action film Days of Thunder. She received greater recognition with lead roles in Far and Away (1992), Batman Forever (1995), To Die For (1995) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). For her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002), Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) and the dramas Rabbit Hole (2010), Lion (2016) and Being the Ricardos (2021). Kidman's television roles include Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Big Little Lies (2017–2019), Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), The Undoing (2020) and Nine Perfect Strangers (2021). For Big Little Lies, she received two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for Outstanding Lead Actress and the other for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer. Kidman has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, she was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia. She was married to actor Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001 and has been married to country music singer Keith Urban since 2006. In 2010, she founded the production company Blossom Films. In 2004 and 2018, Time magazine included her on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicole Kidman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chris Haywood (born 24 July 1948) is an English-born, Australian-based film and television actor/producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Haywood, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Colin Hay

Colin Hay

Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-Australian musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay's music has been used frequently by actor and director Zach Braff in his work, which helped a career rebirth in the mid-2000s. Hay has also been a member of Ringo Starr's Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Hay has made appearances in movies such as Cosi (1996) and in television shows such as The Larry Sanders Show, JAG, The Mick Molloy Show, A Million Little Things, and Scrubs. In Scrubs he performs an acoustic version of the Men at Work hit "Overkill". His music also appeared in television series What About Brian, The Black Donnellys, Cane, and the BBC medical drama Casualty. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
Bob Weis
Writer:
Philip Dalkin
Production:
Stony Desert, Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria
Budget:
$100

Key Crew

Music:
Red Symons
Producer:
Bob Weis
Producer:
Margot McDonald

Locations and Languages

Country:
AU; US
Filming:
AU
Languages:
en