Bill Hunter — Actor (21)
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The Custodian (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Custodian
director: John Dingwall actor: Anthony LaPaglia / Hugo Weaving …
other title: El guardián / Doppeltes Spiel
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
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Backroads (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Backroads
director: Phillip Noyce actor: Bill Hunter / Gary Foley …
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
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Newsfront (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Newsfront
director: Phillip Noyce actor: Bill Hunter / Wendy Hughes …
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
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Kangaroo Jack (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Kangaroo Jack
director: David McNally actor: Jerry O'Connell / Anthony Anderson …
other title: Kangaroo Jack - Prendi i soldi e salta / Kangourou Jack …
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Weekend of Shadows (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Weekend of Shadows
director: Tom Jeffrey actor: John Waters / Bill Hunter …
other title: Battuta di caccia
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
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Heatwave (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Heatwave
director: Phillip Noyce actor: Judy Davis / Richard Moir …
other title: Heatwave - ondata calda / In der Hitze des Zorns …
During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of Sydney.
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The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Return of Captain Invincible
director: Philippe Mora actor: Maggie Dence / Alan Arkin …
other title: Captain Invincible / El retorno del Capitán Invencible …
In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
director: Ford Beebe / Ray Taylor actor: Buster Crabbe / Carol Hughes …
other title: Flash Gordon - Todesstrahlen aus dem All / FLASH GORDON CONQUÊTE DE L'UNIVERS …
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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Sky Pirates (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sky Pirates
director: Colin Eggleston actor: John Hargreaves / Max Phipps …
other title: Stillehavets hemmelighed / Dakota Harris …
Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.
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Stone (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stone
director: Sandy Harbutt actor: Ken Shorter / Sandy Harbutt …
other title: Sie nannten ihn Stone
After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
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Caged (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Caged
director: John Cromwell actor: Eleanor Parker / Agnes Moorehead …
other title: Prima colpa / Frauengefängnis …
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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The Hit (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Hit
director: Stephen Frears actor: John Hurt / Terence Stamp …
other title: Vendetta / O Traidor …
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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Air Force (1943) [Movie] TMDB
Air Force
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Ridgely / Gig Young …
other title: Arcipelago in fiamme / In die japanische Sonne …
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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Muriel's Wedding (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Muriel's Wedding
director: P.J. Hogan actor: Toni Collette / Bill Hunter …
other title: Le nozze di Muriel / O Casamento de Muriel …
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
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Strictly Ballroom (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban Skybridge
Strictly Ballroom
director: Baz Luhrmann actor: Paul Mercurio / Tara Morice …
other title: Strictly Ballroom: De forbudte trin / Ballroom - Gara di ballo …
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
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Australia (2008) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Australia
director: Baz Luhrmann actor: Nicole Kidman / Hugh Jackman …
other title: Austrália
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.