David WilliamsonFilmography

The Club

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Thompson, Harold Hopkins, Graham Kennedy, John Howard, Frank Wilson

Heart

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Saskia Reeves, Kate Hardie, Rhys Ifans, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: A mother's love turns deadly in the wake of an organ transplant in the thriller Heart. Gary Ellis (Christopher Eccleston) is a businessman, while his wife Tess (Kate Hardie) works in television. Gary and Tess don't get along very well, largely because he's convinced she's having an affair. One Read More

Dog's Head Bay [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Sanctuary

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: An eager young doctoral candidate confronts the famous subject of his explosively critical thesis in this claustrophobic but gripping Australian drama. The subject is Robert King, a well-known magazine correspondent and anchor man who has returned to Australia after an extended visit to the US Read More

Moon 44

Actors: Michael Paré, Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Eichhorn, Brian Thompson, Dean Devlin

Synopsis: In the year 2038, multicosmic corporations are dominating the universe, subsuming planet after planet in search of valuable natural resources. An agent (Michael Pare) of the Galactic Mining Corporation is sent to a remote outpost as a safeguard against the ruthless attempts of the Pyrite company Read More

Emerald City

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Hargreaves, Nicole Kidman, Robyn Nevin, Chris Haywood, Rebel Russell, Ruth Cracknell

Synopsis: Australian author David Williamson adapted Emerald City from his own stage play. The title may conjure up images of the Wonderful Land of Oz, but the plot is set in the Munchkin-free Australian film industry. John Hargreaves stars as a prosperous screenwriter who is perfectly willing to accept the Read More

Travelling North

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Graham Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Michelle Fawdon

Synopsis: Director Carl Schultz and screenwriter David Williamson's character study of an aging Australian man's second marriage boasts a robust performance by Leo McKern. McKern plays Frank, a man in his seventies, who used to be something of a firecracker, but who now, his best days behind him, prefers to Read More

The Four Minute Mile

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Huw stars as Roger Bannister in this British TV biopic. Overcoming childhood paralysis, Bannister grows up to be one of the true legends of the athletic world. While holding down a fulltime physician's job in 1954, he finds time to become the first man ever to run the mile in four minutes. Read More

The Perfectionist

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this drama, an Australian professor, his bored wife, and their children find their lives disrupted when a male baby-sitter comes to call. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Phar Lap

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan, Judy Morris, Ron Leibman, Celia Deburgh

Synopsis: Phar Lap, the legendary New Zealand-bred racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford (Martin Vaughan Read More

The Year of Living Dangerously

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own Read More

Duet for Four

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Michael Pate, Diane Cilento, Gary Day

Synopsis: When a Melbourne toy manufacturer discovers his wife is having an affair, he can't really get too distressed. After all, he's having an affair as well. However, when his mistress decides she wants to get married, his life becomes complicated and his business affairs have to be put on hold. ~ Tana Read More

The Club

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John Howard

Synopsis: Bruce Beresford directed this adaptation of David Williamson's play (Williamson also scripted) about the ever-widening gap between professional sport and its boardroom intrigues. Jack Thompson is Laurie, a once popular ball player on the Australian Rules football circuit, but now an ineffective Read More

Gallipoli

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Harold Hopkins, Ronny Graham, Stan Green

Synopsis: The first of two consecutive films to see director Peter Weir team with Mel Gibson (the other being The Year of Living Dangerously), Gallipoli follows two idealistic young friends, Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of Read More

Eliza Fraser

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Castle, Abigail, Gerard Kennedy, Noel Ferrier

Synopsis: The Australian Eliza Fraser tries for the wig-and-bodice bawdiness of Tom Jones. The title character, played by Susannah York, is an 18th century lass who is shipwrecked together with Trevor Howard on a remote Australian island. Her lively exploits among the refugees help to make Eliza famous--or Read More

Don's Party

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Ray Barrett, Clare Binney, Pat Bishop, Graeme Blundell, Jeanie Drynan

Synopsis: Early in his career, Australian director Bruce Beresford helmed Don's Party, which closely mirrors Shampoo in its basic premise and its edgy correlations between sex and politics. One pivotal election night, Don, played by John Hargreaves, throws a party for a group of friends, ostensibly so that Read More

The Removalists

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: John Hargreaves, Peter Cummins, Kate Fitzpatrick, Jacki Weaver, Martin Harris

Synopsis: In this adaptation of an Australian play, a police officer swears that never in 23 years on the force has he had to use his gun. A rookie is assigned to him, and soon they are both bored to death with watching television and working crosswords. They get a little excitement when a woman and her Read More

Jock Petersen

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Joey Hohenfels, Amanda Hunt, George Mallaby

Synopsis: This comedy follows the exploits of Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson), a mature married man with two children who decides to go back to school for an undergraduate degree. Tony has one problem, which he probably feels is only a minor complication: he is like catnip for women. Luckily for him, he likes Read More

Libido

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Four Australian directors explore different angles of the title topic in this generally downbeat anthology. In "The Husband" a husband increases his arousal during lovemaking by imagining his wife in different sexual liaisons without realizing that his fantasy may based on fact. The second Read More

Stork

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sean McEuen, Terry Norris

Synopsis: In this off-beat comedy from Australia, a skinny, awkward fellow is troubled by his inability to hold a job and lose his virginity. He ends up moving in with three buddies and a free-spirited girl with whom each of the young men ends up in bed with. The trouble begins when the girl gets pregnant. Read More