Colin Friels
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- 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…