Ray BarrettFilmography

Van Helsing

Crew: Construction Coordinator

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Shuler Hensley, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O'Connor, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The greatest monster hunter of them all has his work cut out for him as he tracks down three deadly foes in this action-adventure saga. Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a man who has dedicated his life to battling evil forces who exist outside the bounds of nature; Van Helsing's work has not Read More

In the Winter Dark

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto

Synopsis: James Bogle directed this Australian psychological thriller adapted (by Bogle and Peter Rasmussen) from the novel by Tim Winton. Living on their farm for 30 years, Maurice (Ray Barrett) and Ida Stubbs (Brenda Blethyn) have never recovered from the loss of their child, smothered by a cat. Elsewhere Read More

Visitors

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Susannah York, Dominic Purcell, Ray Barrett, Totti Goldsmith

Synopsis: Venerable British actress Susannah York and up-and-coming star Radha Mitchell head up the cast of this Australian psychological thriller. Both actresses play the character of Carolyn at different stages of her life; bookended with scenes of the elder Carolyn (York) recalling her attempt to sail Read More

Dalkeith

Actors: Ray Barrett, Gus Mercurio, Judy Banks, Esme Melville, Alan Hopgood

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the Australian feelgood comedy Dalkeith takes place in a tranquil retirement home. The elderly residents are bored to tears until they get a thoroughbred greyhound as a pet. The old folks name it Dalkeith, after the name of their home, and soon discover the dog's talent for Read More

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

Brilliant Lies

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Gia Carides, Zoe Carides, Ray Barrett, Michael Veitch

Synopsis: It begins as a seemingly cut and dried case of sexual harassment, but the more the conciliator assigned to the case investigates, the more obvious it becomes that either or both side is lying. Based on the premise that survival and success in the '90s is largely based on one's ability to lie Read More

Hotel de Love

Actors: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Pippa Grandison, Peter O'Brien, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: A man tries to win the hand of the love of his life -- which is an uphill battle, since she's about to get married -- in this romantic comedy from Australia. Seventeen-year-old Stephen (Simon Bossell) first sees Melissa (Saffron Burrows) across the room at a party, and from that moment on, he's Read More

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

Dad and Dave on Our Selection

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

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

Prisoners of the Sun

Actors: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, Toshi Shioya, John Bach

Synopsis: In 1945, a tribunal was held to investigate atrocities committed by the Japanese upon Australian soldiers during World War II. At an internment camp, 1100 Australian soldiers were tortured and killed by the Japanese, with only 300 survivors. This horrible event was not known until a terrible Read More

Waiting

Actors: Deborra-Lee Furness, Frank Whitten, Helen Jones, Fiona Press

Synopsis: In this Australian drama, a group of female friends return from locations around the world to help another friend have her child. While there, they reminisce and catch up on their current lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Paper Man

Actors: John Bach, Oliver Tobias, Rebecca Gilling, Peta Toppano, Pat Bishop

Synopsis: The three-part British-Australian TV production The Paper Man could be described as the miniseries equivalent of Citizen Kane. John Bach headed the huge cast as Philip Cromwell, a canny Australian entrepreneur who through "ways of his own" became his country's most powerful media mogul. Any Read More

As Time Goes By

Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles, Max Gillies, Ray Barrett, Marcelle Schmitz

Synopsis: This Australian-made sci-fi tale is about a surfer who stops in for a bite to eat at a 1940s-type diner. Eventually he realizes that it is not a diner at all -- it is a spaceship disguised as one, and the "owners" of the diner are aliens. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Contagion

Actors: John Doyle, Nicola Bartlett, Ray Barrett, Nathy Gaffney, Pamela Hawksford

Synopsis: A naive real-estate agent is offered incredible wealth by an introverted millionaire, but only if he agrees to kill someone. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

Rebel

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

The Challenge

Relatives

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

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

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

The Last Bastion

Synopsis: The political battles waged by Australian Prime Minister John Curtin against Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and others during the Second World War are the subject of this docudrama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Waterfront

Synopsis: When a pay cut sends Australian dock workers on strike, a group of Italian immigrants are hired to take their place, causing much resentment and hatred on both sides. However, when an Italian woman and an Australian man start up a passionate affair, they discover that they must work to preserve Read More

Goodbye Paradise

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

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 Earthling

Actors: William Holden, Rick Schroder, Jack Thompson, Olivia Hamnett, Alwyn Kurts

Synopsis: Despite its title, The Earthling is not a science fiction opus. Instead, it's a low-key character study about a doomed man who finds a new lease on life by helping another lost soul. Suffering from terminal cancer, Patrick Foley (William Holden) returns to his native Australia. Intending to live Read More

No Room to Run

Synopsis: In this thriller, a concert promoter is sent to Australia where he ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Actors: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Peter Carroll

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which was in turn inspired by actual events, this drama is a shocking indictment of the racism inflicted on the indigenous people of Australia. Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) is a half-white, half-aborigine young man raised by a Methodist minister. Feeling outcast among 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

Let the Balloon Go

Actors: Robert Bettles, Jan Kingsbury, Ben Gabriel, Sally Whiteman, Matthew Wilson

Synopsis: Based on a children's novel by Ivan Southall, this sentimental story is an account of a boy stricken with polio during World War I. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Company Men

Inn of the Frightened People

Synopsis: This dark drama unfolds in an unnamed community outside of London, where a beleaguered and grief-stricken tavern owner named Jim Radford (James Booth copes with the rape and murder of his young daughter. The remainder of his family shares his distress, and in time, it begins to rip the clan Read More

Thunderbirds Are Go

Actors: Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, David Graham, Christine Finn, Peter Dyneley

Synopsis: This animated, futuristic puppet fantasy finds Lady Penelope and Professor Brains working for the organization International Rescue. The professor has developed an aircraft for the New World Aircraft company. Corporate spies secretly working for the NWA organization steal the experimental flyer. Read More

Just Like a Woman

Actors: Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer on her husband's weekly television show suddenly decides to begin a new life without him. She then quits her job and moves into the house of another man, a good friend, not a lover. When she learns that her husband is looking for a replacement singer, she does her best to Read More

The Reptile

Actors: Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: This chilling monster film metaphorically examines the horrors brought home by British colonialism. Harry and Valerie (Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel) inherit the Cornwall home of Harry's brother, who died under mysterious circumstances. The local villagers are tight-lipped and afraid, and the Read More

Doctor Who: The Rescue, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of the two-part story "The Rescue," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions endeavor to rescue two spacecraft survivors from intergalactic murderer Koquillon. The plot thickens when it becomes apparent that one of the rescuees may be the Koquillon himself (or Read More

Doctor Who: The Rescue, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: "The Powerful Enemy" is the first episode of the two-part Doctor Who adventure "The Rescue." Arriving on the planet Dido, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his fellow time travelers come across the remains of a crashed spaceship. Rescuing the two survivors, the Doctor endeavors to protect them and Read More

80,000 Suspects

Actors: Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of stemming the disease, he must locate and isolate its source. As if he hasn't got enough trouble on his hands, Johnson must contend with his failing marriage to Claire Bloom. Read More

To Have and to Hold

Synopsis: A police detective succumbs to a seductive beauty who convinces him to help murder her husband so she can collect on his insurance policy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mix Me a Person

Actors: Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith, David Kernan, Frank Jarvis

Synopsis: In this confusing drama, the IRA, intrigue, psychiatric analysis, and a young man framed for murder are thrown together in a series of events that were perhaps originally intended to highlight the psychological aspects of the case under study. One night, eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes (British rock Read More

Avengers: Man In The Mirror

Synopsis: While snapping photographs at an amusement park, Steed's erstwhile associate Venus Smith (Julie Stevens) photographs a British cypher expert. Unfortunately, the man is a traitor, and with the help of his wife, he has previously faked his own suicide. In order to cover his tracks, the traitor must Read More

Time to Remember

Synopsis: In this mystery, a real estate agent begins looking for a jewel thief's stashed loot. He must find it before the robber's widow and other criminals find it first. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Touch of Death

Synopsis: The 58-minute Touch of Death manages to pack quite a lot into its short lifespan. The action begins when a gang of crooks pulls off a huge heist. What the criminals don't know is that the loot has been treated with a deadly poison. Commandeering a houseboat, the bad guys terrorized the female Read More

Jigsaw

Actors: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: Jigsaw was based on Hilary Waugh's play Sleep Long My Love. The scene is Brighton: A woman's body is found in an isolated beach house. The local constabulary painstakingly assemble the "jigsaw" of random clues to reconstruct the woman's history and her last moments on earth, hoping this will lead Read More

The Sundowners

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr) is married to Paddy (Robert Mitchum), a sheep drover whose nomadic Read More