Norman KayeFilmography

Innocence

Actors: Julia Blake, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Terry Norris, Robert Menzies, Marta Dusseldorp

Synopsis: Lovers in Belgium during WWII, Claire (Julia Blake) and Andreas (Charles Tingwell) are shocked to discover that, after a 45-year separation, they are neighbors in the same Melbourne neighborhood. Andreas has been a widower for 30 years, while Claire is happily though not passionately married to Read More

Paws

Actors: Billy Connolly, Nathan Cavaleri, Emile Francois, Sandy Gore, Joe Petruzzi

Synopsis: PC is a super smart Jack Russell Terrier (Forrest) who knows how to use a computer thanks to his brilliant owner Alex (Norman Kaye), who has just learned the secret whereabouts of $1million and stored it on a computer disk which he gives to PC for safekeeping. The evil Anja (Sandy Gore) learns Read More

Frontier

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Jerome Ehlers, Chris Hayward

Heaven's Burning

Actors: Russell Crowe, Youki Kudoh, Kenji Isomura, Ray Barrett, Robert Mammone

Synopsis: A runaway Japanese bride finds herself alone in Sydney, Australia when her lover fails to show up to save her from her husband, and she ends up on an off-road adventure with a handsome getaway driver while fleeing gangsters, cops from two countries and her murderously humiliated spouse. The whole Read More

Lust and Revenge

Synopsis: This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a Read More

Exile

Actors: Aden Young, Beth Champion, Claudia Karvan, David Field, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: This Australian drama, based on the novel Priest Island by E.L. Grant, tells the tale of a man exiled to a lonely island after he is caught stealing sheep. The story is set in an unnamed time in an unknown time. Peter had been stealing the sheep to pay the dowry for his beloved, Jean. He is Read More

Tales of Erotica

Actors: Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes Read More

Broken Highway

Actors: Dennis Miller, Aden Young, David Field, Bill Hunter, Claudia Karvan, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel (Aden Young) is traveling with his Read More

Nostradamus Kid

Actors: Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto

Synopsis: This genial Australian coming-of-age film is based on the experiences of its narrator, writer and director Bob Ellis. The first part of the film covers the difficulties teenaged Ken (Noah Thomas) has at a church summer camp run the the Seventh Day Adventists; he is not "with the program," and Read More

Bad Boy Bubby

Actors: Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson

Synopsis: This Australian cult film draws extremely dark humor from the story of Bubby, a man who has spent the first 35 years of his life locked in a disgusting basement by his abusive, controlling mother. Having been taught that the outside air is poisonous and that leaving home is sinful, he only Read More

The Custodian

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving, Barry Otto, Kelly Dingwall

Synopsis: Anthony LaPaglia, who's probably played more cops than Pat O'Brien, Edgar Kennedy and Fred Kelsey combined, dons brass and blue once more in The Custodian. LaPaglia plays a frustrated Australian policeman who decides to take on departmental corruption in a most unorthodox fashion. When he's not Read More

Turtle Beach

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson, Art Malik, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In this grim docu-drama an Australian photojournalist leaves her children to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she becomes friends with a Vietnamese streetwalker who has married a diplomat and together they try to do something about shocking conditions Read More

The Nun and the Bandit

Actors: Gosia Dobrowolska, Chris Haywood, Victoria Eagger, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: Michael is the extremely impoverished nephew of George, a wealthy mining magnate. Not only is he poor now, but he grew up poor. Michael has reason to believe that his uncle cheated him of his inheritance from his father's share in the family mining operation. Michael is concerned about taking care Read More

The Killing Beach

Synopsis: The struggles faced by Vietnamese boat people make up the focus of this story about an Australian reporter (Greta Scacchi) assigned to cover the Malaysian arrival of Vietnamese refugees. Also known as Turtle Beach. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Woman's Tale

Actors: Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood, Myrtle Woods

Synopsis: Australian director Paul Cox, skilled at intense psychological stories about lone souls looking for comfort in a cold world, was at his best with this original script co-written by the director and Barry Dickins. Martha is a 78-year-old woman living out her final days. Not a maudlin tale of a Read More

The Golden Braid

Actors: Chris Haywood, Gosia Dobrowolska, Paul Chubb, Norman Kaye, Marion Heathfield, Monica Maughan

Synopsis: Bernard (Chris Haywood) is clearly someone with an obsessive personality, as witnessed by his lifelong love affair with old-time clocks. He even earns his livelihood by finding, selling, and repairing them. However, obsessions aside, he seems a decent sort, happly involved in a relationship with Read More

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

Hungry Heart

Actors: Norman Kaye, Dasha Blahova

Synopsis: In this downbeat drama, Sal (Nick Carrafa), a young Italian/Australian doctor, tries to deal with his growing sense of dislocation. At first he pals around with his chums, narrowly avoiding getting into big trouble. Then he starts going out with Katie (Kimberley Davenport), a girl with a very Read More

Island

Actors: Eva Sitta, Irene Papas, Anoja Weerasinghe, Chris Haywood, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: Greek Irene Papas, Australian Eva Sitta and Sri Lankan Anoja Weerasinghe all meet while vacationing on a tiny Greek island. The threesome discovers that each is a fugitive from an oppressive, unhappy private life. The protective nature of the Island is personified by deafmute native Chris Haywood Read More

Boundaries of the Heart

Crew: Associate Producer

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

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

Vincent: The Life & Death of Vincent Van Gogh

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hurt

Synopsis: As can easily be ascertained by the title, this Australian documentary focuses upon that most tortured of artistic geniuses, Vincent Van Gogh. Filmmaker Paul Cox utilizes Vincent's "Dear Theo" letters to his brother as the dramatic spine of this visual feast. Van Gogh's fiercely impressionistic Read More

Frenchman's Farm

Actors: Tracey Tanish, David Reyne, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye, John Meillon

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Australia, this hallucinatory drama is predicated on time displacement. University student Jackie Grenville (Tracey Tainsh), motoring through the rural region, suddenly finds herself in 1944. She witnesses a horrible murder, then is zapped back to the present. Retracing her Read More

Cactus

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan, Banduk Marika

Synopsis: Isabelle Huppert plays a French woman who travels to Australia after leaving her husband. Injured in an accident, Huppert is in danger of losing her sight. Her friends try to get her to "bond" with blind doctor Robert Menzies, who possesses a greenhouse full of cactus. In the big "Author's Read More

Dancing Daze

I Own the Racecourse

Actors: Gully Coote, Tony Barry, Norman Kaye, Rodney Burke, Paul Bertram

Synopsis: This off-beat children's story is about Andy (Gully Coote), a trusting youngster who is duped into believing the $20 he just gave a disreputable derelict is really the purchase price on a race track. The caretaker at the track goes along with the charade as a lark and Andy has an interesting time Read More

The Cowra Breakout

Unfinished Business

Actors: John Clayton, Michelle Fawdon, Norman Kaye, Bob Ellis, Andrew Lesnie

Synopsis: John Clayton stars in this Australian comedy as a fortysomething journalist. Suffering a mild case of midlife crisis, Clayton renews the acquaintance of onetime girl friend Michelle Fawdon. Now married, Fawdon is dissatisfied with her childless state. Clayton has the perfect solution: he'll Read More

Flight Into Hell

Synopsis: The four-part Australian miniseries Flight Into Hell was based on the real-life recollections of German airplane pilot Hans Bertram. Helmut Zierl starred as Bertram, who was lost at sea for 53 terrifying days in 1932, along with his mechanic, Adolph Klausman (Werner Stocker). The action fluctuated Read More

Relatives

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bill Kerr, Ray Barrett, Alyson Best

Synopsis: In this saga of family stress and antagonisms, an 80-year-old grandfather is brought out of his retirement home to celebrate his birthday with his family in their nearly 100-year-old country house and farm. Unknown to the grandfather, his son Geoffrey has made the decision to sell everything Read More

Wo Die Grünen Ameisen Träumen

Actors: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In a slightly padded but well-acted and relevant drama, an Australian mining company and a group of aboriginals go to court to settle a dispute over sacred land that the company wants to mine. When the Ayers Mining Company sets out to begin construction of its mine with bulldozers and Read More

Buddies

Actors: Colin Friels, Harold Hopkins, Kris McQuade, Bruce Spence, Dennis Miller

Synopsis: The Australian-made Buddies is essentially a Down Under gold rush western. Two friends in Queensland team up with a miner and his girl friend to search for diamonds. Their quest is threatened by a gang of slavering claim-jumpers. Colin Friels, Harold Hopkins, Dennis Miller and Kris McQuade (the 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

A Man of Flowers

Actors: Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Sarah Walker, Julia Blake

Synopsis: The Australian Man of Flowers stars Norman Kaye in the title role. A painter, Kaye has earned his nickname from his beautifully rendered flower portraits. He uses his artistic skills as a means of channelling his repressed sexual yearnings, especially his feelings towards nude model Alyson Best. Read More

Lonely Hearts

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Flash Fire

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, James Mason, Wendy Hughes, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator Read More

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

Kostas

Actors: Takis Emmanuel, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: Australia has a huge Greek immigrant population, so it is only natural that a refugee from Greece's occasional revolutions has become a political refugee there. Now a taxi-driver, Kostas (Takis Emmanuel) was formerly a journalist, an educated, passionate man who didn't always live in a seedy Read More

Inside Looking Out

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Briony Behets, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Juliet Bacskai, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In this drama, the marriage between an unhappy young couple trying to hold themselves together for the sake of their daughter is chronicled. When the daughter disappears, the two finally come together for real. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Illuminations

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Australian drama chronicles the vision of a young lover who almost drowns in a bathtub while dreaming about her father's death. The daydream becomes a story set in medieval times as she and her love, wander about in full period garb, have a confrontation with her father, and wander about some Read More

Diamonds for Breakfast

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Maggie Blye, Francisca Tu

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the Read More