Tony Barry
Actor
Films to Rent
- Newsfront (1978)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood…
- Picture perfect if conservative account of the newsreel professionals who became obsolete by the advent of television in the late 1950s. The episodic…
- Irishman, The (1978)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Michael Craig, Robyn Nevin, Simon Burke…
- Rousing tale of hard living Irish teamster Paddy Doolan whose refusal to acquiesce to fashionable new technology pushes his family close to ruin in…
- Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman…
- This little beauty was the first Kiwi film to make international inroads. An amoral tale about a gang of misfits who travel the length of the country…
- We of the Never Never (1983)
- Dir. Igor Auzins
Feat. Tony Barry, Tommy Lewis
- Polished period drama that relays the memoirs of Mrs Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman to travel to the interior of Australia. While the storyline…
- Frog Dreaming (The Quest, The Go-Kids) (1986)
- Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Tony Barry, Rachel Friend
- E.T. star Henry Thomas heads to the land down under in this unsettling children's film, directed by the distinguished Ozploitationist Brian…
- Initiation (1987)
- Dir. Michael Pearce
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Rodney Harvey, Anna-Maria Winchester…
- Oddball coming of age tale with a young American venturing to the outback to reunite with his estranged father – a drug trafficker.
- Shame (1988)
- Dir. Steve Jodrell
Feat. Tony Barry, Deborra-Lee Furness
- Stranded in an outback town, a female lawyer defends a young rape victim when her plight is met with nonchalance by the townsfolk.
- Old Scores (1991)
- Dir. Alan Clayton
Feat. John Bach, Tony Barry, Roy Billing
- Affectionate comedy about an expatriate Welsh sporting hero who is roped in to a replay of a controversial 1966 test match against the All Blacks…
- Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (1992)
- Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Tony Barry…
- Telemovie enactment of the French–sponsored bombing of the Greenpeace vessel ' Rainbow Warrior' in 1984. Solidly dramatised with Neill and…
- Road to Nhill (1997)
- Dir. Sue Brooks
Feat. Tony Barry, Vikki Blanche, Paul Chubb…
- A ripple of effect sweeps through a tiny Australian country town after four elderly women get trapped in their upturned Falcon on their way home from…
- Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
- Dir. Chris Kennedy
Feat. Miranda Otto, Matt Day, Richard Roxburgh…
- A quietly inspired drama, set around the journey of an Australian lad (Day) towards Country Music fame in Nashville, who becomes waylaid by a curious…
- Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, John Clarke, Martyn Sanderson…
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
- Night We Called it a Day, The (2003)
- Dir. Paul Goldman
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Joel Edgerton…
- Middling though unusual comedy, set around a 'scandalous' incident when Frank Sinatra attempted to tour Australia in the early 1970s.
Accosted by…
- Australia (2008)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham…
- Aussie golden boy Baz Luhrmann's larger–than–life epic sees an English aristocrat and cattle driver attempt to save an inherited outback…
- Home By Christmas (2010)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Tony Barry, Martin Henderson, Chelsie Preston-Crayford
- The director of WAR STORIES returns to the subject for this deeply personal yet affecting docu–drama focusing this time on a single story…
- Rest for the Wicked (2011)
- Dir. Simon Pattison
Feat. Tony Barry, John Bach, Irene Wood…
- Jolly late–life crime–caper with Tony Barry as a former cop who poses undercover as a resident of a retirement village in an effort to…
- Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo (TV Mini-series) (2011)
- Dir. Daina Reid
Feat. Asher Keddie, Rob Carlton, Tony Barry…
- Drama charting the creation of CLEO magazine and the unlikely alliance between Ita Buttrose and Kerry Packer.