Nick Tate Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An Australian actor with a cult following in England and America, Nick Tate has enjoyed a successful career on three continents since the 1970s. Nicholas John Tate was born in Sydney, Australia, into a family of British and Russian extraction, with actors (and singers) on both sides going back two...Read More

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Lost: Tabula Rasa

Actors: Fredric Lehne, Nick Tate

Synopsis: The title of this episode translates as "Blank Slate," which is as good a way as any to describe what the 48 survivors of a mid-air plane crash truly know and understand about one another as they acclimate themselves to their new Pacific-island surroundings. Almost as mysterious as the strange Read More

2004
Farscape: A Constellation of Doubt

Synopsis: Captured by Scarrans, Aeryn (Claudia Black) is spirited away to the elusive enemy base Katratzi. Hoping to locate his lost love, John Crichton (Ben Browder) uses Pilot to monitor transmissions throughout the universe. Imagine Crichton's surprise when he tunes into a TV tabloid program -- which is Read More

2003
The Junction Boys

Actors: Tom Berenger, Fletcher Humphrys, Ryan Kwanten, Bernard Curry

Synopsis: Long before his legendary association with the Alabama Crimson Tide, football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant was athletic director at Texas A&M University. In this made for TV movie, the hard-as-nails Bryant (played by Tom Berenger) shepherds 100 potential college football players into the desolate Read More

2002
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 139: Honor Among Thieves

1998
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Village of the Doomed

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie

Synopsis: Enjoying some R and R in England, Jonny and Dr. Quest set out for some fishing near Devon. Along the way, they encounter the happy residents of a peaceful village. Suspecting that things are a bit too idyllic hereabouts, the Quests soon learn that the village is in the thrall of a mind-controlling Read More

1996
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: The Darkest Fathoms

Actors: J.D. Roth, George Segal, Robert Patrick, Michael Benyaer, Jesse Douglas

Synopsis: An oil expedition in Bermuda is terrorized by what seems to be band of phantom pirates. Sent to investigate, the Quest Team comes face to face with ghostly buccaneer Black Jack Lee, whose galleon, the Ivory Web, sank near the expedition site centuries before. As it turns out, however, Black Jack Read More

1996
Party of Five: Going Home

Synopsis: Charlie (Matthew Fox) is outraged when the parents of his ex-fiancee Kirsten Bennett (Paula Devicq) storm into town after Claudia (Lacey Chabert) informs them of Kirsten's current emotional turmoil. Even worse, Mr. Bennett (Nicholas Pryor) holds Charlie completely responsible for the fact that Read More

1996
Murder, She Wrote: Southern Double-Cross

Synopsis: In Australia for a seminar, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) receives word that she has inherited 130,000 acreas of land currently used for sheep grazing. The locals aren't happy when Jessica arrives to claim her property, believing her to be in cahoots with a powerful mining company. Evidently someone Read More

1996
Bed of Roses

Actors: Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pamela Segall, Josh Brolin, Ally Walker

Synopsis: Two lonely people learn to say it with flowers in this romantic drama. Lisa (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive who has gotten used to being alone but doesn't like it very much; she was abandoned by her birth parents, and then spent most of her childhood being raised by Stanley (S.A. Griffin Read More

1996
Silent Cries

1993
The Public Eye

Actors: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Tucci, Jerry Adler, Jared Harris

Synopsis: Howard Franklin wrote and directed this film noir character study based on the famed New York Daily News photographer Weegee. Joe Pesci plays a character named Bernstein, a freelance photographer for the New York City tabloids of the 1940s. His life is dedicated to his work; with a police radio Read More

10/14/92
The President's Child

Synopsis: In this drama, a reporter attempts to protect her small son (the result of her brief tryst with a presidential candidate) from the prying eyes of a shady political advisor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Murder, She Wrote: Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief

Synopsis: An old "urban legend" stemming from an incident at the 1893 Paris Exposition is the inspiration for this episode. While visiting London, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) comes across a corpse in her hotel room. She summons the authorities, only to find that the corpse has disappeared--and subsequently Read More

1992
Hook

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

12/11/91
Night Court: The System Works

Synopsis: In a rare Sunday-night telecast of Night Court, Harry (Harry Anderson) agrees to teach a law class on a part-time basis. His first class proves quite an eye-opener thanks to a bizarre aggregation of students. And back in Night Court, Dan (John Larroquette) prompts courtroom artist Tommy Gamble Read More

1991
Steel and Lace

Actors: Clare Wren, Bruce Davison, Stacy Haiduk, David Naughton, Michael Cerveris

Synopsis: In this special-effects-laden sci-fi thriller, a classical pianist commits suicide by diving off a building after the five men who gang raped her are released. Fortunately, her brother is a talented scientist who rebuilds her broken body and turns her into a cyborg killer programmed to get revenge Read More

1990
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Final Mission

Synopsis: Having at last been accepted into the Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher is invited on the eve of his departure to accompany Captain Picard on an important mission to Pentaurus Five. Alas, they are forced to make an emergency landing, in the course of which Picard is seriously injured. It is up to Read More

1990
Return from the River Kwai

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Michael Dante, Edward Fox, Chris Penn, George Takei, Nick Tate

Synopsis: This poorly received sequel to the classic 1957 movie The Bridge over the River Kwai, is also based on a true story, as told in the book by Joan & Clay Blair, Jr. This story begins where the previous one left off, with the blowing up of the marvelous bridge. Here, the Australian POWs are rounded Read More

4/7/89
A Cry in the Dark

Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Bruce Myles, Sam Neill, 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
The Year My Voice Broke

Actors: Noah Taylor, Leone Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran

Synopsis: The life of a teen in an isolated small town is the subject of Australian writer/director John Duigan's film, set in 1962 in New South Wales. Duigan's coming-of-age story has many familiar elements -- Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) discovers his sexual attraction to a childhood playmate (Leone Carmen Read More

8/25/88
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

11/6/87
The Empty Beach

Actors: Bryan Brown, Anna Maria Monticelli, Ray Barrett, John Wood, Nick Tate

Synopsis: Empty Beach brings Australian novelist Peter Corris' detective hero Cliff Hardy to the big screen. F/X star Bryan Brown plays Hardy, who this time around is hired to confirm or disprove the reported death of a millionaire. Hardy confers with journalist Brian Henneberry (Clifford Tate), who has Read More

1985
The Coolangatta Gold

Actors: Joss Mc William, Josephine Smulders, Robyn Nevin, Colin Friels

Synopsis: Director Igor Auzins and screenwriter Peter Schreck, best known for their work on the Australian film We of the Never Never, were reteamed on Coolangatta Gold. The story takes place on the Gold Coast of Queensland, where for many years a grueling athletic competition has been held. Participants in Read More

1984
The Man From S.E.X.

Actors: Gareth Hunt, Nick Tate, Fiona Curzon, Gary Hope, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: One-dimensional characters tend to fall flat, and that seems to be the case in this low-budget parody of a James Bond spy-thriller that has stretched the bravado of the spy genre beyond its elastic limits. The story involves a British agent, Charles Bind (Gareth Hunt) sent on a mission to find Read More

1983
Holiday Island [TV Series]

Actors: Nick Tate, Stephen Grives, Alyson Best, Caz Lederman, Tracey Mann

Synopsis: Still another Australian soap opera from the busy firm of Crawford Productions, Holiday Island debuted Down Under in June 1981. The titular Island was a run-down vacation resort, supervised by Neil and Angela Scott (Nick Tate, Caz Lederman). Despite their strenuous efforts to make a going concern Read More

1981
Licensed to Love and Kill

1979
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization As We Know it

Synopsis: John Cleese co-wrote and stars in this satiric comedy as the less-than-spectacular progeny of the world's greatest detective. A mysterious super-villain announces across the globe that the world will come to an end in five days unless their demands are met. Research reveals that the fiend in Read More

1977
Summerfield

Actors: Nick Tate, John Waters, Elizabeth Alexander, Michelle Jarman, Charles "Bud" Tingwell

Synopsis: An Australian film directed by Ken Hannam, this is one of the lesser-recognized movies of the Australian New Wave of the 1970s. It's about an urbane schoolteacher, Simon Robinson (Nick Tate), who takes a job on a small island off the Australian coast after the schoolteacher there has mysteriously Read More

1977
Alien Attack

Synopsis: Alien Attack is a jerry-built feature film comprised of two episodes from the TV sci-fi series Space: 1999. Martin Landau stars as John Koenig, commander of Moonbase Alpha, a futuristic research colony. Landau's then-wife Barbara Bain co-stars as the base's chief medical officer Dr. Helena Read More

1976
The Devil's Playground

Actors: Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, Charles McCallum, John Frawley

Synopsis: Fred Schepsi wrote and directed this tense melodrama which takes place at a Roman Catholic boarding school. The film deals with the charged emotional tensions of a group of pubescent boys, who find their sexual urges stifled by the school's oppressive atmosphere. Depicting the chaste lifestyle of Read More

1976
Space: 1999 - Matter of Life and Death

1976
Space: 1999 - Earthbound

1976
Destination Moonbase Alpha

Synopsis: This sci-fi adventure was the pilot for a television series Space: 1999. It is set in the next century just after an enormous blast from an alien ship destroys half the moon and sends the rest hurtling through space. Unfortunately, upon the chunk of speeding rock is the research station Alpha Read More

1975
The Cosmic Princess

Actors: Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: Cosmic Princess is comprised of scenes from the syndicated TV series Space 1999. Most of this "TV movie" consists of the series' second-season opener, which introduced Maya (Catherine Schell), an extraterrestrial endowed with the ability to transform herself into any life form. Maya is the Read More

1975
Space: 1999 - Black Sun

1975
Space: 1999 - The Guardian of Piri

1975
Space: 1999 - Voyager's Return

1975
Journey through the Black Sun

Synopsis: A nuclear explosion causes chaos in space, in this British made-for-television sci-fi thriller. The moon seems to be headed for disaster after a nuclear explosion sends it out of orbit and heading for a black sun. Some stranded moon-base personnel may be doomed -- unless someone comes to their Read More

1975
Dynasty [TV Series]

1970

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