John HargreavesFilmography

Hotel Sorrento

Synopsis: This Australian drama is an adaptation of Hannie Rayson's award-winning play. It is the tale of the three Moynihan sisters, Hilary, a widow who lives in the family "hotel" with their father and her teenage son; Pippa, who lives in New York; and Meg, who lives in London. After a long absence, the Read More

Country Life

Actors: Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore

Synopsis: This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the Aussies were getting ready to break away from England. After his father's death, Jack Dickens sacrificed his literary aspirations to run the family farm. He lives in the old farm Read More

Day of the Dog

Actors: John Moore

Synopsis: Imagine, if you will, the plight of poor inner-city youths in crime and gang-ridden neighborhoods, combined with the problems that many native Americans experience off the reservation in terms of divided loyalties and separation from their culture and families. That is a pretty fair approximation Read More

No Worries

Actors: Susan Lyons, Geraldine James, John Hargreaves

Synopsis: The Bells live on a sheep station in the Australian outback, struggling from year to year just to get by. In this story, they have suffered for a number of years from one of Australia's periodic droughts, and are practically the last holdouts in their part of the country to remain on the land. Read More

Rome Romeo

Actors: John Hargreaves, Yann Collette, Laszlo Szabo

Sweet Revenge

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, John Sessions, François-Eric Gendron, Myriam Moszko

Synopsis: Sweet Revenge is a made-for-television comedy about a female lawyer (Carrie Fisher) who is ordered to pay alimony to her ex-husband. She hires an actress (Rosanna Arquette) to marry him, in hopes that she will be able to stop paying alimony. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Boundaries of the Heart

Actors: Wendy Hughes, John Hargreaves, Norman Kaye, Julie Nihill, Max Cullen

Synopsis: A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into Read More

Emerald City

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

Heroes

Synopsis: This Australian-British co-production was based on the historical novel by Ronald McKie. In the last months of WWII, a group of 14 intrepid British and Aussie soldiers combined forces for a daring and dangerous mission. "Operation Jaywick" was designed to cripple the Japanese naval fleet in Read More

Cry Freedom

Actors: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington Read More

Malcolm

Actors: Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Chris Haywood

Synopsis: In this hilarious, award-winning comedy, Malcolm (Colin Friels) is an innocent, naive mechanical genius with a distinct gap where sexual and social awareness normally reside. He first gets into trouble when he builds his version of a streetcar and then takes it on a joyride through Melbourne -- a Read More

Sky Pirates

Actors: John Hargreaves, Meredith Phillips, Max Phipps, Bill Hunter, Simon Chilvers

Synopsis: A limp storyline refuses to go taut throughout this sci-fi adventure that patches together bits and pieces from its famous, multi-genre predecessors (the Indiana Jones series, The Deer Hunter, The Philadelphia Experiment, and others). The premise has John Hargreaves as Harris fly his plane through Read More

Place at the Coast

Actors: John Hargreaves, Heather Mitchell, Tushka Bergen, Margo Lee, Willie Fennell

Synopsis: Teenager Ellie (Tushka Bergen) is the only child of the widowed physician Neil McAdam (John Hargreaves) in this finely crafted drama, and the two spend their summers at the family cottage on the Australian coast. Ellie is bored and lonely until Margot Ryan (Heather Mitchell) comes to visit her Read More

Comrades

Actors: Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Jeremy Flynn

Synopsis: Set in the 1830s, this historical drama stars Robin Soans as George Loveless, a Methodist minister whose flock is a group of working families in Tolpuddle, a small town in the British Southwest. Most of the workers in the community are under the thumb of Frampton (Robert Stephens), a ruthless land Read More

Great Gold Swindle

Synopsis: 1982 saw the taking of $650,000 in gold from the Perth Mint in Australia as dramatized in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

My First Wife

Actors: John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin, David Cameron

Synopsis: Classical music DJ John Hargreaves neglects his wife Wendy Hughes, who responds by entering into an illicit romance. Upon finding out, Hargreaves leaves Hughes, but doesn't want to tell his parents; they'd never liked Hughes, and he isn't in the mood for a chorus of "I told you so"s. What is Read More

Careful, He Might Hear You

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill, John Hargreaves, Geraldine Turner

Synopsis: Set in Australia in the 1930s, this drama stars Nicholas Gledhill as P.S., a six-year-old boy who lives with his Aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Uncle George (Peter Whitford). P.S.'s mother died in childbirth, so her sister Lila took him in, and while George and Lila don't have a lot of money, they've Read More

The Dismissal

The Killing of Angel Street

Actors: Liz Alexander, John Hargreaves, Alexander Archdale, Gordon McDougall

Synopsis: Director Donald Crombie's fourth feature tackles the problem of out-of-control redevelopment by unscrupulous corporate developers. Angel Street is a row of charming and quaint homes on the shore of Australia's Sydney Harbor. A development company wants to buy the homes, raze the street, and build Read More

Hoodwink

Actors: John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Dennis Miller, Les Foxcroft, Wendy Strehlow

Synopsis: 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 stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a Read More

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Actors: David Hemmings, John Hargreaves, Martyn Sanderson, Grant Tilly, Diana Rowan

Synopsis: Beyond Reasonable Doubt is a true story of New Zealand justice gone awry. A married couple named Crewe is murdered, and Arthur Allen Thomas (John Hargreaves) is charged with the crime. Given a scrupulously fair trial, the innocent Thomas is found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Later on, it is Read More

The Odd Angry Shot

Actors: Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt, Bryan Brown, Graeme Blundell

Synopsis: In The Odd Angry Shot director Tom Jeffrey provides a cathartic Australian answer to Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was as much of an alienating and soul-searching experience for Australians as for Americans, and Jeffrey's frank portrayal of a group Read More

Long Weekend

Actors: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Michael Aitkens

Synopsis: An Australian couple sets off on a weekend to the coast in this psychological thriller. Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) are at each other's throats from the moment they pull out of the driveway, as Peter sneaks his dog along for the weekend and Marcia is harboring anger about a Read More

Little Boy Lost

Actors: Nathan Dawes

Synopsis: In this fact-based drama, when Stephen Walls (Nathan Dawes), a four-year old, goes missing in the outback near his home in rural Australia, the population of the entire town (and several nearby towns) turns out to search for him. Unfortunately, they raise such a ruckus that they scare the little Read More

Deathcheaters

Actors: John Hargreaves, Grant Page, Margaret Gerard, Noel Ferrier, Judith Woodroffe

Synopsis: Two veterans of Vietnam special-forces (John Hargreaves, Grant Page) have retired to the relatively painless field of stuntwork. They return to active duty, however, when the Australian government hires them to retrieve documents and destroy the fortress of a Filipino overlord. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Mad Dog Morgan

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate

Synopsis: Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. A six-year stint in jail doesn't provide reform, but does introduce him to an Aboriginal partner-in-crime (David Gulpilil). The duo then proceed to terrorize the Read More

Don's Party

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

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

Don Quixote

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patricia Cox, Julie Da Costa, Joseph Janusaitis, Gary Norman, Leigh Rowles, Janet Vernon

Synopsis: This 1973 adaptation of the oft-filmed Miguel de Cervantes novel about an aging Spanish gentlemen attempting to relive the age of chivalry is actually a filmed record of the ballet version, created in 1869 by choreographer Marius Petipa and composer Ludwig Minkus. The ballet concentrates on a Read More

Robbery under Arms

Actors: Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith, Maureen Swanson, David McCallum

Synopsis: One of several feature film versions of the late 19th century novel by Rolf Boldrewood, this frontier adventure is set not in the Wild West of the U.S., but in the equally untamed Australian Outback of the same era. Two brothers, Jim (David McCallum) and Dick Marsten (Ronald Lewis) follow in their Read More