Lewis Fitz-GeraldFilmography

Born:: Australia
Occupation:: Actor

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The Mystery of Natalie Wood

Actors: Justine Waddell, Michael Weatherly, Matthew Settle, Colin Friels

Synopsis: This three-hour TV biopic of actress Natalie Wood emulates Citizen Kane by beginning at the end -- the tragically ironic drowning death of the water-phobic actress in 1981 -- then recounts her life story in flashback. Justine Waddell plays the adult Natalie, with younger performers Elizabeth Rice Read More

2004
Pitch Black

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Synopsis: In this science fiction thriller, a spaceship is transporting a disparate group of people to a far-away galactic outpost called New Mecca. Mechanical failures cause the craft to crash-land on an abandoned planet that has three suns and no night. The only member of the crew to survive is junior Read More

2/18/00
The Three Stooges

Actors: Paul Ben-Victor, Rachael Blake, Brandon Burke, Peter Callan, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: The comedy team that made the phrase "nyuk nyuk nyuk" part of the American vocabulary gets the full biographical treatment in this made-for-TV feature. The Three Stooges opens in 1959, as a TV executive tries to persuade Moe Howard (Paul Ben-Victor) to reunite with his former onscreen partners to Read More

2000
Dead Heart

Actors: Bryan Brown, Ernie Dingo, Angie Milliken

Synopsis: Though not quite a western, this gripping Australian drama contains similar themes as it chronicles the unending struggle between native aborigines and ever-encroaching Europeans. Set in the arid red-rock desert west of Alice Springs, a region called Dead Heart by the whites and hailed as a sacred Read More

1996
Twisted Tales: A Sure Thing

Crew: Director

1996
Spider & Rose

Actors: Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Jennifer Cluff

Synopsis: This Australian road movie avoids melodrama and mush as it depicts the relationship between a feisty old woman and the young misanthropic ambulance driver who must take her home. The film opens with the sight of an old woman wandering a country road. She is in deep shock. The camera then moves to Read More

1994
Warm Nights on a Slow-Moving Train

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye, John Clayton, Rod Zuanic

Synopsis: Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train, written and directed by Bob Ellis, belongs to a genre of highbrow 1980s films which pushed the conventions of art house cinema. An unnamed fine arts teacher struggles to support her brother's drug addiction. To raise money, she moonlights as a prostitute on a Read More

3/31/89
Mission: Impossible: Target Earth

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: The launching of the first privately funded, manned space shuttle is postponed by the mysterious death of the vessel's pilot. Investigating the possibility of sabotage, the IMF heads to the Australian launching site, only to be swept up in a terrorist takeover of the facilities. Once again, plucky Read More

1989
A Cry in the Dark

Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Bruce Myles, Nick Tate

Synopsis: A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early 1980s was the most hated woman in Australia. While visiting the Ayers rock monument in the Outback with her husband Michael (Sam Neill), Lindy notices a dingo creeping into the tent where Read More

11/11/88
Rikky and Pete

Actors: Stephen Kearney, Nina Landis, Tetchie Agbayani, Bill Hunter, Bruno Lawrence

Synopsis: In the wake of their surprise hit Malcolm, Australian screenwriter/photographer David Parker and director Nadia Tass concocted an equally delightful follow-up, Rikky & Pete. Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney), feeling like misfits in their hometown (as indeed they are) Read More

1988
The Four Minute Mile

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

1988
The Shiralee

Actors: Bryan Brown, Rebecca Smart, Norman Kaye, Lorna Leslie, Noni Hazelhurst

Synopsis: The 1988 Australian miniseries Shiralee was, like the 1957 film of the same name, based on a bestselling novel by D'Arcy Niland. A shiralee is Australian slang for the bundle carried about by a swagman (a tramp or thief). In this instance, the "bundle" is the 10-year-old daughter of an Australian Read More

1988
The More Things Change

Actors: Judy Morris, Barry Otto, Victoria Longley, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Peter Carroll

Synopsis: In this Australian entry into the early 1980s sub-genre of films dealing with families rejecting contemporary society for a life of freedom and non-conformity (Mosquito Coast, Lost in America), an Australian family tries to leave the suburbs and start afresh in the country. Connie (Judy Morris) Read More

1986
Time's Raging

1985
The Boy Who Had Everything

Actors: Diane Cilento, Jason Connery, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Nique Needles

Synopsis: Jason Connery (son of Sean Connery) stars as Johnny Kirkland in this slightly uneven teen drama about facing down obstacles at college and at home. When Johnny goes off to the university, he is leaving behind an aloof and alcoholic mother (Diane Cilento, Jason Connery's real-life mother) whose Read More

1984
Fighting Back

Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Paul L. Smith, Kris McQuade, Robyn Nevin, Caroline Gillmer

Synopsis: Based on John Embling's book Tom, the Australian Fighting Back is set in a hellhole of a slum school. Most of the teachers have given up on the "unreachable" students. Not so idealistic John (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), who channels all his energies into elevating the intelligence and self-confidence of Read More

1982
We of the Never Never

Actors: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Tony Barry, Tommy Lewis, Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Synopsis: Even today, the Australian outback (the never-never of the title) is a daunting place to be left alone. In 1901, it was even more rugged and wild. In this artful drama, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor), a very genteel and citified Victorian-era newlywed, joins her husband in the Northern Read More

1982
I Can Jump Puddles [TV Series]

Actors: Adam Garnett, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Tony Barry, Julie Hamilton, Anne Henderson

Synopsis: The nine-part Australian series I Can Jump Puddles was based on a trilogy of autobiographical books by Alan Marshall: I Can Jump Puddles, This Is the Grass, and In Mine Own Heart. Crippled by polio as a youngster, Marshall managed nonetheless to pursuit a number of professions: writer, farmer Read More

1981
Breaker Morant

Actors: Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Jack Thompson, John Waters

Synopsis: Breaker Morant is one of the most acclaimed Australian films, telling a powerful tale of wartime betrayal and injustice. Henry "Breaker" Morant (Edward Woodward) is an Englishman living in Australia at the end of the 19th century. When war breaks out in 1899 between Britain and the Boers Read More

1980