Colin Friels
Colin Friels is an Australian actor born on September 25, 1952, in Kilwinning, Scotland. He is known for his roles in film, television, and theatre, including winning an AFI Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film Malcolm (1986).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.6254 |
| Birthday | 1952-09-25 |
| Place of Birth | Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
1998
Dark City
7.328/3300
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic...
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Dark City
1995
Angel Baby
6.8/27
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
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Angel Baby
2004
Tom White
5.05/10
Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not every...
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Tom White
2008
The Informant
5.667/3
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, wi...
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The Informant
1990
Darkman
6.423/1562
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been bur...
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Darkman
2001
The Man Who Sued God
6.331/77
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance m...
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The Man Who Sued God
1986
Malcolm
6.561/49
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail...
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Malcolm
1994
A Good Man in Africa
4.902/46
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A...
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A Good Man in Africa
2005
The Illustrated Family Doctor
7/3
Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be fa...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor
2010
Tomorrow, When the War Began
6.082/561
Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return,...
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
1981
Hoodwink
4.857/7
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves star...
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Hoodwink
1991
Dingo
5.818/11
Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown afte...
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Dingo
2013
The Turning
5.7/33
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winni...
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The Turning
2004
BlackJack: Sweet Science
6.417/6
Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.
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BlackJack: Sweet Science
2005
BlackJack: In the Money
6.625/4
Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some p...
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BlackJack: In the Money
1996
Cosi
6.151/43
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst...
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Cosi
2011
A Heartbeat Away
4.3/6
A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks be...
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A Heartbeat Away
2016
The Crossing
0/0
A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm.
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The Crossing
2006
Solo
6.333/3
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm o...
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Solo
1982
Monkey Grip
5.455/11
Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when sh...
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Monkey Grip
1987
Ground Zero
6.75/8
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginal people to be exposed to an...
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Ground Zero
1987
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
5.333/6
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cros...
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
1983
Buddies
6.4/4
Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
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Buddies
1988
Grievous Bodily Harm
5/10
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
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Grievous Bodily Harm
2012
Mabo
7.1/5
The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge t...
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Mabo
2022
Interceptor
6.045/863
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threat...
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Interceptor
1984
The Coolangatta Gold
4.8/5
Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is bur...
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The Coolangatta Gold
1995
Back of Beyond
7/3
A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
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Back of Beyond
2014
Schapelle
3.417/6
A 27-year-old beauty school dropout, Schapelle, was arrested at Bali airport with 4.2kg of marijuana. At first, her arrest was barely noticed by the m...
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Schapelle
2001
My Husband, My Killer
4.75/4
Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
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My Husband, My Killer
1990
Weekend with Kate
3.333/3
This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women i...
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Weekend with Kate
1993
The Nostradamus Kid
4.857/7
When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
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The Nostradamus Kid
1996
Mr. Reliable
6.571/7
All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officer...
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Mr. Reliable
2003
Max's Dreaming
10/1
A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both have...
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Max's Dreaming
2002
Black and White
6.179/14
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation M...
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Black and White
2008
Australia: Land of Parrots
7.4/4
Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots. Multi-award...
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Australia: Land of Parrots
2011
The Eye of the Storm
4.8/34
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir B...
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The Eye of the Storm
2006
The Book of Revelation
5.224/29
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
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The Book of Revelation
1991
Class Action
6.309/181
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...
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Class Action
2004
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
5.542/12
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
2010
Matching Jack
6.079/38
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is tur...
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Matching Jack
2001
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
7/15
As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts...
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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
1987
High Tide
6.455/22
A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, t...
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High Tide
2010
Lest We Forget
0/0
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Lest We Forget
2006
BlackJack: Ace Point Game
5.083/6
After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted a...
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BlackJack: Ace Point Game
2009
Blind Company
0/0
Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on the bea...
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Blind Company
1985
The Man in the Iron Mask
6/1
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
2012
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
6.458/60
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investi...
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
1986
Kangaroo
7.3/3
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the...
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Kangaroo
2003
BlackJack
7/1
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral...
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BlackJack
2006
BlackJack: Dead Memory
6/3
A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's...
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BlackJack: Dead Memory
2007
BlackJack: Ghosts
7/2
Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for th...
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BlackJack: Ghosts
2006
BlackJack: At the Gates
7/2
Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an ev...
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BlackJack: At the Gates
Underbelly: Vanishing Act
0/0
Inspired by the real-life mystery that captivated the nation, Underbelly: Vanishing Act tells the story of the bizarre disappearance of Melissa Caddic...
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Underbelly: Vanishing Act
2015
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
5.3/3
The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emig...
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Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
2010
The Nothing Men
5.8/4
Panic and intrigue grip the lives of a group of hardened factory workers with the arrival of a man they fear is a head-office spy sent to rob them of...
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The Nothing Men
2022
Fences
0/0
When his son sends an artificial intelligence version of himself to mend the fences on the family property, an ageing farmer must adapt to the change,...
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