Roger Ward Filmography

Rough Diamonds

Actors: Jason Donovan, Angie Milliken, Peter Phelps, Max Cullen, Hayley Toomey

Synopsis: In this romance, after they accidentally have a little fender bender, a lawyer's wife and a truck driver find true love in Australia. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fatal Bond

Actors: Linda Blair, Jerome Ehlers, Stephen Leeder, Donal Gibson, Caz Lederman

Synopsis: Set in New South Wales, Australia, a local hairdresser falls in love with an enigmatic wanderer and leaves her tiny hometown behind to travel along with him. She is madly in love with him, but eventually comes to question her infatuation when she begins suspecting him of being a killer, a hunch Read More

Quigley Down Under

Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as American cowboy archetype Matthew Quigley in Simon Wincer's outback western Quigley Down Under. Answering an advertisement placed by Australian cattle baron Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman) to come to the rugged and uncivilized Australian countryside and shoot dingoes, Quigley Read More

Pirates' Island

Young Einstein

Actors: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Pee Wee Wilson, Su Cruickshank

Synopsis: The life of legendary scientist Albert Einstein is re-imagined as a slapstick farce in this comic fantasy. Changing Einstein's country of origin from Germany to Tasmania, the film shows the scientist's eventful youth as he creates rock & roll and discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The System

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

Synopsis: The IMF's assignment: To persuade Frank Marley (James Sloyan), the manager of a casino in the Bahamas, to turn against his boss, mob kingpin Connors (Gus Mercurio). The strategy: To convince Marley that he is being framed for a money-skimming racket perpetrated by his employer. Robert Hammer's Read More

Robbery Under Arms

Actors: Sam Neill, Steven Vidler, Christopher Cummins, Liz Newman, Deborah Coulls, Robert Grubb

Synopsis: Many cinematic versions of this story which first appeared in 1889 (authored by Rolf Boldrewood) have been produced, the first was an Australian film dating back to 1907, and this mid-'80s interpretation is also an Australian release. The focus is on Captain Starlight (Sam Neill) and his gang of Read More

Brothers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Chard Hayward, Ivar Kants, Margaret Laurence, Jennifer Cluff, Alyson Best

Synopsis: This suspensful drama chronicles the life of a despicable killer who along with his brother, was involved in the slaughter of several Australian journalists in 1975. The film is based on a true story. Both brothers survived the killings. Afterwards, one of them settles down in a small New Zealand Read More

The Pirate Movie

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: An introverted girl who yearns for popularity (Kristy McNichol) attends a pirate festival in her seaside community, featuring a swordplay demo led by a curly haired hunk (Christopher Atkins). After selecting Mabel (McNichol) to participate in the act, the instructor invites her aboard his boat for Read More

Lady, Stay Dead

Actors: Chard Hayward, Louise Howitt, Deborah Coulls, Roger Ward, Les Foxcroft

Synopsis: This is a low-budget horror movie about a psychopathic gardener with a penchant for killing off young women, undoubtedly due to some twisted psycho-sexual malfunction that leads him to rape his first victim before drowning her in a fish tank. His second female victim is dispatched when she catches Read More

Turkey Shoot

Actors: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier

Synopsis: This grim, violent Australian production is an artless mishmash incorporating elements of The Road Warrior, 1984 , and The Most Dangerous Game. The story is set in a dystopian future society where all "deviants" (i.e. anyone whose ideas don't jive with those of the government) are interred in Read More

The Chain Reaction

Actors: Patrick Ward

Synopsis: The Chain Reaction is an Australian-made drama about a nuclear accident and its effect on the workers of the plant. Oates (Patrick Ward) knows of the accident and the eventual effects it will have on the workers and the surrounding community, and he tries to tell them but the owners of the reactor Read More

Touch and Go

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Chantal Contouri, Carmen Duncan, Jeanie Drynan, Liddy Clark

Synopsis: Three attractive women turn into Robin Hoods in order to save a kindergarten in this routine comedy-caper. Eva (Wendy Hughes), Fiona (Chantal Contouri), and Millicent (Carmen Duncan) are ready to help out a charitable cause when they see one, but their hearts are bigger than their wallets. The Read More

Mad Max

Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward

Synopsis: This stunning, post-apocalyptic action thriller from director George Miller stars Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a policeman in the near future who is tired of his job. Since the apocalypse, the lengthy, desolate stretches of highway in the Australian outback have become bloodstained 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 Irishman

Actors: Michael Craig, Simon Burke, Robyn Nevin, Lou Brown, Vincent Ball, Tui Bow

Synopsis: In Queensland, Australia in the 1920s, a rugged Irishman bucks the encroaching modern age to the detriment of himself and his family in The Irishman. Michael Craig plays Paddy Doolan, an individualistic force-of-nature who runs a team of imposing and impressive Clydesdale draught horses. With the Read More

High Rolling in a Hot Corvette

Actors: Joseph Bottoms, Greg Taylor, Judy Davis, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: In this Australian action comedy, Texas and Alby (Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor) mostly work as roustabouts at carnivals, but they are bored with the kind of work they do and take to the road together, looking for some fun and adventure. They are picked up in a beautiful green Corvette owned by 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

Deathcheaters

Actors: John Hargreaves, Grant Page, Margaret Gerard, Noel Ferrier, Judith Woodroffe

Synopsis: Two veterans of Vietnam special-forces (John Hargreaves, Grant Page) have retired to the relatively painless field of stuntwork. They return to active duty, however, when the Australian government hires them to retrieve documents and destroy the fortress of a Filipino overlord. ~ John Bush, All Read More

The Man from Hong Kong

Actors: Jimmy Wang Yu, George Lazenby, Ros Spiers, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward

Synopsis: The Far East and the Land Down Under are about to have a head-on collision in this action drama. Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) is an undercover detective from Hong Kong sent to Australia to crack open the operation of a Sydney mob boss named Wilton (George Lazenby). Fang puts his skills as a hang glider Read More

Stone

Actors: Keryck Barnes, James H. Bowles, Jane Gilling, Dewey Hungerford, John Ifkovitch, Lex Mitchell, Ros Talamini, Rhod Walker, Owen Weingott, Bindi Williams

Synopsis: An undercover cop named Stone (Ken Shorter) infiltrates an outlaw biker gang called the Grave Diggers, only to discover that he has more in common with the two-wheeled warriors than he previously though after a professional assassin attempts to set them up for a big fall. A prominent environmental Read More

The Set

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Rod Mullinar, Hazel Phillips, Denis Doonan, Julie Rodgers

Synopsis: Sex is the only discernible subject of this Australian film that begins on a beach and chronicles the confession of a young woman to her lover. To him, she admits he is the first man she has ever been with. All the rest of her lovers have been women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Squeeze a Flower

Actors: Walter Chiari, Jack Albertson, Rowena Wallace, Kirrily Nolan

Synopsis: Brother George (Walter Chiari) is the Italian monk who is the only one who knows the secret recipe of a popular liqueur. When he feels the local wine merchant won't give him a fair price, he moves to Australia. He meets Alfredo Brazzi (Jack Albertson) and the two agree to a partnership to make the Read More