Peter BestFilmography

My Mother Frank

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sinéad Cusack, Rose Byrne, Sacha Horler

Synopsis: Babe: Pig in the City (1998) screenwriter Mark Lamprell makes his directorial debut with this understated drama about a middle-aged woman who is looking to reinvent her life. Frances Regina Aileen Nano Kennedy, AKA Frank Ryan (Sinead Cusack) is a devoutly Catholic widow with two grown children and Read More

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto, Matt Day, Tony Barry, Kiri Paramore

Synopsis: The talented teenage son of outback farmers, Ralph dreams of becoming an American country music star. When his supportive, hard working parents hand him tickets to Nashville, he is elated and eager to embark upon the highway to stardom, but before he can, the callow Ralph must learn a few life Read More

The Sugar Factory

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Matt Day, Rhondda Findleton, John Waters, Tony Hayes, Michela Noonan

Synopsis: Australian novelist Robert Carter adapted and directed his own novel for this low-budget Australian drama about a teen in therapy. Loner Harris Berne (Matt Day), age 17, develops a crush on divorced Helen (Rhondda Findleton) while baby-sitting her two children. But during play one day, the little Read More

Dad and Dave on Our Selection

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: This Australian period comedy set at the turn-of-the-century, is based on the anecdotal books of Steele Rudd (the pen name for author Arthur Hoey) that described life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Like the original written tales, the film is anecdotal and chronicles events Read More

Blue Murder

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Roxburgh, Tony Martin, Bill Hunter, Steve Bastoni

Synopsis: Celebrated Australian filmmaker Mike Jenkins helms this controversial, true-life tale of police corruption in New South Wales that was banned from airing in the state where the events occurred for six years due to ongoing legal proceedings. Decorated police officer Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson Read More

Country Life

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Muriel's Wedding

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lee, Rosalind Hammond, Belinda Jarrett, Pippa Grandison, Jeanie Drynan, Daniel Wyllie, Gabby Millgate

Synopsis: A socially inept young woman slowly learns to overcome her insecurities in this sleeper hit from Australia. The unconventional Muriel (Toni Collette) is deeply unsatisfied with her life, stuck in the nowhere town of Porpoise Spit and feeling rejected by her friends and family. Believing herself Read More

Ebbtide

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Merlin

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Peter Phelps, Richard Lynch, James Hong

Synopsis: The direct-to-video Merlin brings the King Arthur legend up to date. The fun begins when a young Californian traces the ol' family tree directly back to Merlin the Magician. The twist: Merlin's descendant is a woman, played by Nadia Cameron. The good news is that the woman is endowed with special Read More

Sky Trackers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Paul Williams

Synopsis: Since Sky Trackers was produced on behalf of the Disney Channel cable service, we shouldn't be surprised that the principal characters are three children. When an extraterrestrial satellite crash lands in the Australian outback, the kids search for survivors. The plot thickens when it is learned Read More

Heroes II: The Return

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Father

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Max von Sydow, Carol Drinkwater, Julia Blake, Steve Jacobs, Tim Robertson

Synopsis: In this drama, a daughter defends her aging father against scandalous accusations. Joseph Mueller (Max Von Sydow) was born in Germany but emigrated to Australia shortly after the end of World War II. Joseph is happily spending the autumn of his years doting on his two grandchildren and giving Read More

Kokoda Crescent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Warren Mitchell, Bill Kerr, Ruth Cracknell, Madge Ryan, Martin Vaughan

Synopsis: In this strange caper flick, a trio of old codgers who served in World War Two decide to go after a crooked cop, after running into a wall of indifference by authorities to the death of one man's grandson from a heroin overdose. The resulting violence and mayhem would do credit to a large crew of Read More

Crocodile Dundee II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Charles S. Dutton, Hechter Ubarry, Juan Fernandez, John Meillon

Synopsis: An evil drug baron rears his ugly head in this sequel to the blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, kidnapping Sue so that Dundee will butt out of the Baron's affairs. Using outback strategy, Dundee attempts to rescue his girlfriend. Reversing the procedure of the first film, the story later takes the hero Read More

Heroes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

High Tide

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels, Frankie J. Holden, John Clayton

Synopsis: Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie Read More

Custody

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Judith Stratford, Peter Browne

Synopsis: In this docudrama, a couple going through an acrimonious divorce after twelve years of marriage are going through custody hearings in Australia's Family Law Courts. All the officials and judges play themselves, but the family members are actors. Things grow especially heated when the husband, who Read More

Crocodile Dundee

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Mark Blum, Michael Lombard

Synopsis: Accustomed to a simple life in the Australian Outback, a legendary crocodile hunter has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings when an American journalist brings him to New York City. This Australian comedy delivers exactly what one would expect: plenty of fish-out-of-water gags about the Read More

Rebel

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Matt Dillon, Debbie Byrne, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: This WW II musical is set in Australia and chronicles the exploits of a nightclub singer and the young Marine who loves her. She works in a Quonset hut turned into a saloon and helps stage shows for battle-weary troops returning from the South Seas. After one performance she holds a small party in Read More

Bliss

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones, Miles Buchanan, Gia Carides

Synopsis: After suffering a near-death experience, an executive realizes that his seemingly ideal life has become a horrifying nightmare in this dark Australian satire. Based on the novel by Peter Carey, who also penned the screenplay, the film begins with a deceptively calm, idyllic day in the life of ad Read More

Alice to Nowhere

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rosie Jones, John Waters

Synopsis: The two-part, two-hour Australian miniseries Alice to Nowhere was adapted by David Boutland from the suspense novel by Evan Green. Set in 1954, the story focused on the aftermath of a botched attempt to steal the crown jewels. Rosey Jones starred as Nurse Barbara Dean, who, unaware that a valuable Read More

The More Things Change

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

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

We of the Never Never

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Goodbye Paradise

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Robyn Nevin

Synopsis: In a somewhat far-fetched premise (not uncommon to the genre), this action film has some Australians (including soldiers) joining up with Asian forces, all backed by American money, ready to take over Surfers Paradise, a resort and retirement area on the Gold Coast of Queensland. They are not Read More

The Picture Show Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rod Taylor, John Meillon, John Ewart, Harold Hopkins, Patrick Cargill

Synopsis: This easygoing drama offers a look back at the early days of the Australian movie business, and it was based on the real-life adventures of pioneering Aussie exhibitor Lyle Penn. Maurice "Pop" Pym (John Meillon) loves motion pictures, and he wants to open a cinema of his own. But shortly after the Read More

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Donald Pleasence, Dick Bentley, Ed Devereaux

Synopsis: Comedian, actor, and author Barry Humphries wrote and co-stars in this sequel to the surprise international hit The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, based on the comic-strip character created by Humphries. Well-meaning but dunderheaded über-Aussie Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) is escorting his aunt Read More

Jock Petersen

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Joey Hohenfels, Amanda Hunt, George Mallaby

Synopsis: This comedy follows the exploits of Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson), a mature married man with two children who decides to go back to school for an undergraduate degree. Tony has one problem, which he probably feels is only a minor complication: he is like catnip for women. Luckily for him, he likes Read More

Carry on Abroad

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Jimmy Logan, June Whitfield, Hattie Jacques, Derek Francis, Sally Geeson, Ray Brooks, Carol Hawkins

Synopsis: This film brings more ribald nonsense from the British "Carry On" gang. This time the setting is the Spanish resort town of Elsbels. A group of stereotypical British tourists - led by courier Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams) show up for a four-day weekend at a "luxury hotel." There are only two Read More

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

City of Fear

Crew: Art Director

Synopsis: In this drama a Canadian journalist heads for Hungary to do a story when he meets a man who asks him to bring a package containing "medicine" for his niece. The reporter agrees but accidently loses the niece's phone number. He decides to have the message of the packet's arrival broadcast on the Read More

Pete Best: Best of the Beatles

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Best of the Beatles consists of former Beatle drummer Pete Best documenting the early history of the band when he was a member. He also confronts the reasons he was kicked out of the band for Ringo Starr just as they were about to become superstars all over the world. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More