Colin Friels

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Monkey Grip (1982): Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Colin Friels, Noni Hazlehurst, Alice Garner…; Serious–minded drama set in the bohemian environs of 1980s Melbourne. Focused chiefly on a struggles of a divorcee to free herself from the…
For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-series) (1982): Dir. Rob Stewart
Feat. Colin Friels, Anthony Perkins, Patrick Macnee…; Solid dramatisation of the Marcus Clarke novel concerning an Englishman unjustly transported to the harsh penal colony of Tasmania in the 1830s. Good…
Coolangatta Gold, The (1984): Dir. Igor Auzins
Feat. Joss McWilliam, Nick Tate, Colin Friels…; Fair dinkum sports drama in which a father pushes his son to become a champion of the nascent Iron Man competition on the southern Queensland…
Malcolm (1986): Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, John Hargreaves; A simple young man with a genius for things mechanical is coerced into criminal activity by his dodgy new flatmate. Deserved winner of 8 Australian…
Kangaroo (1986): Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Judy Davis, Colin Friels; Thinly veiled autobiographical account of novelist D.H. Lawrence features Colin Friels as 'a British writer' in Australia who gets unintentionally…
High Tide (1987): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels; The director of MY BRILLIANT CAREER encores with Judy Davis for this bittersweet exploration of mother–daughter relations at a bleak coastal…
Ground Zero (1987): Dir. Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson
Feat. Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence; Colin Friels reveals a high–level government cover–up involving radioactive contamination in this brisk Australian thriller. Based on…
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988): Dir. Bob Ellis
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye; A Catholic schoolteacher moonlights as a prostitute to fund her disabled brother’s morphine dependence, later falling under the influence of a…
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988): Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Colin Friels, Bruno Lawrence, John Waters; Police thriller from Australia following a school teacher who becomes convinced that his lover did not die in a car accident as officially stated.
Darkman (1990): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels; A superhero emerges from a scientist charred beyond recognition, but able to assume the identity of anyone he chooses. Fun all the way, with the…
Dingo (1992): Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Colin Friels; Superb, romantic jazz tribute stars Colin Friels as an aspiring musician/devotee who sets about realizing his childhood dream, to play with his idol…
Last Man Hanged, The (1992): Dir. Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Feat. Colin Friels; 'Docu–drama' reenacting the cold–blooded execution of petty thief Ronald Ryan, whose botched prison escape resulted in the unwarranted…
Stark (1993): Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, Jacqueline McKenzie, Ben Elton; Neatly executed adaptation of humorist Ben Elton's first novel, an eco–thriller fuelled by Elton's unflagging humour. Follows an international…
Mr. Reliable (My Entire Life) (1996): Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, Gillian Statham, Susie Porter; A bland title conceals a corker recreation of a bizarre event of late '60s Ozzie history, when a petty criminal became a folk hero after a…
Man Who Sued God, The (2001): Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes…; Above–average satire in which disgruntled fisherman Billy Connolly slaps a lawsuit on the Big Guy after an ‘act of God’ sinks his…
Blackjack (TV Series) (2003-2007): Dir. Peter Andrikidis
Feat. Colin Friels, Vince Colosimo, Kate Beahan…; Tenacious Aussie crime series centred on a detective banished to work in the police archives section, who uses his new surrounds to solve long…
Tom White (2004): Dir. Alkinos Tsilmidos
Feat. Colin Friels, Rachael Blake, Bill Hunter…; Colin Friels plays a successful middle–aged architect who suffers a nervous breakdown in this overly earnest Aussie drama about the search for…
Illustrated Family Doctor, The (2005): Dir. Kriv Stenders
Feat. Samuel Johnson, Colin Friels, Jessica Napier…; Sterile, oddball Australian feature set within the corridors of a glacial office building. When a zombie publishing employee proofing a medical guide…
Solo (+ Project Greenlight - Australia) (2006): Dir. Morgan O'Neill
Feat. Colin Friels; Well–executed, if relatively downbeat Australian crime caper adhering to the tried–and–true genre formula of a hitman who wants to…
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010): Dir. Stuart Beattie
Feat. Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis…; John Marsden's enduring 'Tomorrow' series of novels for young adults receives its first big screen treatment in this story of foreign (Asian!)…
Matching Jack (2010): Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Jacinda Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Tom Russell…; A woman struggles with her son's illness and the revelation that her husband has been unfaithful, in this surprisingly uplifting drama that is…
Nothing Men, The (2010): Dir. Mark Fitzpatrick
Feat. David Field, Colin Friels, Martin Dingle-Wall; Intense blue collar chamber piece stars Colin Friels as one of a group of laid–off factory workers who believe an industrial spy out to cancel…
Eye of the Storm, The (2011): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis…; A prodigal son and daughter attend to their dying mother in order to ensure their inheritances in this powerfully performed adaptation of Patrick…
Killing Time (TV Mini-Series) (2011): Feat. David Wenham, Diana Glenn, Colin Friels; Another hard–hitting crime story ripped from Australian headlines, starring David Wenham as a favourite defense lawyer of Melbourne's gangland…
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012): Dir. Jeffrey Walker
Feat. Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen…; Guy Pearce plays the whiskey–soaked private investigator of the Peter Temple novels whose troubling past resurfaces after the death of an…
Turning, The (2013): Dir. Jonathan auf der Heide, Tony Ayres, Jub Clerc
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving…; Tim Winton's epic collection of short stories is adapted into 17 distinct yet interlocking narratives about the turning points in a spectrum of…
Schapelle (2013): Dir. Khoa Do
Feat. Krew Boylan, Denise Roberts, Colin Friels; Teledrama about the famous case of Schapelle Corby, a 27–year–old beauty school dropout from the Gold Coast who was arrested at Bali…
Mystery Road (TV Mini-series) (2018): Dir. Rachel Perkins
Feat. Aaron Pedersen, Judy Davis, Deborah Mailman…; Six–part miniseries based on the outback noir film of the same name, following indigenous detective Jay Swan as he investigates the…

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Colin Friels

Filmography (All Films)