John ClarkeFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter

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Broken Hill

Actors: Luke Arnold, Timothy Hutton, Alexa Vega, Peter Lamb, Andy McPhee, Che Timmins, Rhys Wakefield

Synopsis: In this drama, an Australian teen tries to move beyond his rural roots in the Outback to become a musician. However, he gets distracted from his dream by the appearance of a rebellious new student at his school, whose beauty is matched only by her daring. He tries to match her bravado, but his Read More

9/11/09
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

Actors: Jools Topp, Lynda Topp, Paul Horan, Billy Bragg, John Clarke

Synopsis: The Topp Twins are one of New Zealand's leading comedy acts, and one of the more unusual entertainment phenomena to come to come from the Southern Hemisphere. Lynda Topp and Jools Topp are sisters who are known as gifted singers, performing country-flavored material with superb harmonies, and also Read More

4/9/09
Roy Hollsdotter Live

Actors: Darren Casey, Luke Elliot, Asher Keddie, John Clarke, Maude Davey

2003
Crackerjack

Actors: Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, John Clarke

Synopsis: Pressured by moneyhungry Bernie (John Clarke) to redevelop their club and install poker machines when the begin having financial difficulties, Cityside Bowling Club members Stan (Bill Hunter), Len (Frank Wilson) and Eileen (Monica Maughan) make a last ditch effort to enter a tournament and win the Read More

2002
The Games [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Australian spoof of a typical TV sports documentary, a film crew was given full access to the inner workings of the fictional SCCCG (Sydney Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games). In its satirical depiction of the politicking, bureaucracy, and egomania surrounding the planning of the Read More

1998
Prisoners of the Sun

Actors: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, Toshi Shioya, John Bach

Synopsis: In 1945, a tribunal was held to investigate atrocities committed by the Japanese upon Australian soldiers during World War II. At an internment camp, 1100 Australian soldiers were tortured and killed by the Japanese, with only 300 survivors. This horrible event was not known until a terrible Read More

7/19/91
Death in Brunswick

Actors: Sam Neill, Zoe Carides, John Clarke, Yvonne Lawley, Deborah Kennedy

Synopsis: Carl Fitzgerald (Sam Neill) is a shy, unassertive man, given to following orders from anyone around him who will take the trouble to boss him about, starting with his nagging mother. In this story, he is very much down on his luck and is forced to take a job as dishwasher in a Greek restaurant in Read More

1990
Never Say Die

Actors: Temuera Morrison, Lisa Eilbacher, Tony Barry, George Wendt, John Clarke

Synopsis: In this exciting New Zealand-set actioner, a pair of average people find themselves fighting for their lives when they are inadvertently entangled in a plot involving international espionage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
A Matter of Convenience

1987
Les Patterson Saves The World

Actors: Barry Humphries, Pamela Stephenson, Thaao Penghlis, Andrew Clarke, Henri Szeps

Synopsis: Essentially a showcase for the talents of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, this earthy comedy tells the tale of a boorish and boozy Aussie ambassador and his wife (Humphries plays both characters) who are stationed in a Middle Eastern country. There, they end up saving the world from the Read More

1987
Those Dear Departed

Actors: Garry McDonald, Pamela Stephenson, Su Cruickshank, John Clarke

Synopsis: Max Falcon (Garry McDonald) is a pompous and immensely popular actor who stars in "Freud The Musical" in this offbeat comedy. His wife Marilyn (Pamela Stephenson) is having an affair with her Polish chauffeur Richard (Marian Dworakowski). The two conspire to murder Max by putting broken glass in Read More

1987
Footrot Flats

Actors: Peter Rowley, John Clarke, Rawiri Paratene, Fiona Samuel, Peter Hayden

Synopsis: The first feature-length animated film to come out of New Zealand's movie industry, this drama is based on a popular cartoon strip originating in this country, but also published in Australia, Scandinavia, and Japan. The heroes are Dog (voice of Peter Rowley) who has to guard his owner Wal (voice Read More

1986
Anzacs: The War Down Under

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Anzacs: The War Down Under is a two-part Australian TV movie dramatizing the activities of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). This all-volunteer outfit fought shoulder to shoulder with enlisted men during the First World War. The film concentrates on three Anzacs: An aristocrat (Andrew Clarke Read More

1985
Lonely Hearts

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson, Julia Blake, Jonathan Hardy

Synopsis: Effusive piano tuner Norman Kaye is on the less sunny side of forty and still unattached. Shy and self-effacing office worker Wendy Hughes is likewise getting on in years sans a lifetime companion. From the outset, we know that Kaye and Hughes will somehow come together. This, however, is the only Read More

1982
Strange Behavior

Actors: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive "Strange Trilogy" which also included 1983's Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the film is set in a sleepy American town, in which a series of gory Read More

1981
El Ultimo Dia de la Guerra

Synopsis: During the twilight of World War II, American forces battle their German counterparts to find a noted Austrian atomic scientist who is marked for death. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

9/20/72
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

Actors: Margo Lloyd, Jenny Tomasin, Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Paul Bertram, Dennis Price, Avice Landone

Synopsis: The popular Australian comic strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie was first brought to the screen in this raunchy 1972 romp. Barry Crocker plays the title character, a carefree Aussie cowboy with an inordinate fondness for beer and "Sheilas". Touring England as a stand-up comic, Barry runs Read More

1972
Cannon for Cordoba

Actors: George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Pete Duel, Don Gordon

Synopsis: In this limp western melodrama, when Mexican bandit Hector Cordoba (Raf Vallone) attacks a U.S. Army fort a few miles from the Mexican border, General John Pershing (John Russell) orders Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard) to organize a group of soldiers to cross the border into Mexico to capture Read More

1970
The Desperados

Actors: Vince Edwards, Jack Palance, George Maharis, Neville Brand, Sylvia Syms

Synopsis: This violent western finds a son leaving his father and family behind in the wake of the elder's violent guerilla warfare against society at large. David Galt (Vince Edwards) leaves his Confederate war-veteran father Josiah (Jack Palance) behind and settles in Texas. The son changes his name Read More

1969
Una Bruja Sin Escoba

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Maria Perschy, Gustavo Rojo, Perla Cristal

Synopsis: An inflamed Spanish witch takes a visiting American professor on a journey through the ages in this time- travel fantasy. The witch, a mere novice, originally comes from the 15th century. She takes him back with her. Unfortunately, her magic isn't reliable and she can't figure out how to get him Read More

1967
The Tall Women

Synopsis: Seven courageous white women endeavor to survive alone in the Western wilderness after their traveling party is massacred by Indians in this western. During the attack, the women find a cave and plot their continued survival. The leader decides to keep going towards Fort Lafayette. It will be Read More

1967
The Fugitive: Landscape with Running Figures, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) briefly suspends his search for fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) to take a long-overdue vacation with his wife Marie (Barbara Rush). But when Girard abandons her to follow up a new lead on Kimble, the frustrated Marie goes Read More

1965
The F.B.I.: The Giant Killer

Synopsis: The FCC alerts Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) when several radio operators begin receiving strange, cryptic messages. Meanwhile, a deranged man named Joseph Walker (played by a young Robert Duvall) formulates a plan to destroy a new guided missile known as "Thor", which is slated to be Read More

1965
Finger on the Trigger

Actors: Rory Calhoun, James Philbrook, Todd Martin, Silvia Solar, Brud Talbot

Synopsis: The Yankees and the Rebels must stop fighting over a stolen gold shipment and join forces to save a New Mexico fort from a major Indian attack in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
The Fugitive: Landscape with Running Figures, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Kimble (David Janssen) risks getting caught in an ever-rising flood to rush Marie Gerard (Vera Miles), the temporarily blinded wife of his perennial nemesis Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse), to a hospital. En route, he tries to help a young girl named Joanie (Judee Read More

1965
The Satan Bug

Actors: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Adapted from an Alistair MacLean novel, The Satan Bug is one of the best efforts in the "deadly virus at large" genre. Insane scientist Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart) steals several vials containing a lethal germ culture from a government lab. Hoffman has been unhinged by the notion of the Read More

1965
The Thin Red Line

Actors: Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Ray Daley, Bob Kanter

Synopsis: Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic Read More

1964
The Fugitive: The Old Man Picked a Lemon

Synopsis: Working as a fruit picker for wealthy citrus grower Leland Hagerman (Byron Morrow), Kimble (David Janssen)--alias "Jim Wallace"--promises his dying boss that he'll look after Hagerman's ne'er-do-well son Blaine (Ben Piazza). This proves difficult when, upon Blaine's return home, he turns out to be Read More

1964
Petticoat Junction: Cave Woman

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the staff of the Shady Rest have hopes of tripling and even quadrupling their business by booking an upcoming convention. Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan and his nieces have pinned their hopes on the salesmanship of Shady Rest owner Kate Bradley (Bea Benadaret) Read More

1964
Gun Street

Actors: James Brown, Jean Willes, John Clarke, Med Flory, John M. Pickard

Synopsis: This routine, often disappointing, "B"-grade, low-budget western is directed by Edward L. Cahn and was the penultimate film of his career. (He died the year after Gun Street was released.) The story is mainly one long chase, as the Sheriff (Jame Brown) goes after an outlaw. One obstacle after Read More

1962
Combat!: The Prisoner

Synopsis: Pvt. Braddock (Shecky Greene) is strongarmed into serving as jeep driver for Froggy Clyde (Keenan Wynn, a brash, bullying American colonel. Circumstances dictate that Braddock don Clyde's field jacket--at which point he is mistaken for the colonel and captured by the Germans, who hope to exchange Read More

1962
You Have to Run Fast

Actors: Craig Hill, Elaine Edwards, Grant Richards, Shepherd Sanders, John Apone

Synopsis: This is a competently put-together "B"-grade film starring Craig Hill as a doctor who in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters, identifies the culprits to the police. When their victim dies and the charge becomes murder, the doctor hightails it to the far woods where he Read More

1961
Operation Bottleneck

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a unit of paratroopers attempt to a colleague after he is captured by the Japanese during a mission in Burma. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1961
The Twilight Zone: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

Actors: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Ted de Corsia, Alice Frost, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Ida Lupino stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses to admit that she's grown too old to play romantic roles. As her loyal agent Danny Weiss (Martin Balsam) looks on with a mixture of pity and disgust, Barbara insists upon sitting in her Hollywood mansion watching her old Read More

1959
Children's Magazine

1955