Terry Ryan Filmography

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden, Nicholas Gonzalez, Eugene Byrd, Morris Chestnut

Synopsis: Directed by Dwight H. Little, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is the sequel to 1997's tongue-in-cheek Anaconda, though none of the original cast have returned. The film chronicles a fateful mission ordered by a pharmaceutical giant: to travel deep in to the jungles of Borneo, where a rare Read More

The Hard Word

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson

Synopsis: Three brothers who would argue that crime does pay have a hard time getting their fair share of the proceeds in this witty action thriller from Australia. Dale Twentyman (Guy Pearce) and his brothers, Mal (Damien Richardson) and Shane (Joel Edgerton), are serving time together in prison for Read More

Chopper

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Eric Bana, Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, David Field

Synopsis: This Australian drama is based on the life and times of Mark "Chopper" Read, a notorious Aussie criminal who went on to become a best-selling author, publishing nine books about his exploits outside the law. In 1978, Chopper (played by Eric Bana) is serving a 16-year sentence for abducting a judge Read More

Nowhere to Land

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jack Wagner, Christine Elise, James B. Sikking, Ernie Hudson, Mark Lee

Synopsis: Even as security is beefed up in Australia in anticipation of the 2000 Olympics, someone manages to slip a deadly nerve gas device -- and a detonator -- on a 747 jet bound from Sydney to L.A. The authorities are uncertain as to whether the person responsible for this outrage is a terrorist or Read More

A Little Bit of Soul

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham, Frances O'Connor, Heather Mitchell, John Gaden

Synopsis: After his Oscar-winning performance in Shine, Geoffrey Rush returned to the screen in this Australian comedy as a power-crazed politician, federal treasurer Godfrey Usher. Scientist Richard Shorkinghorn (David Wenham) needs cash to continue his research into age reversal. Applying for a grant Read More

Passion

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Roxburgh, Emily Woof, Claudia Karvan, Simon Burke

Synopsis: Pianist, composer and archivist Percy Grainger was publicly known for a brief concert career, several interesting contemporary classical compositions, and researching and documenting a wealth of English folk music. Privately, Grainger's life was tumultuous and unconventional, as chronicled in the Read More

Paradise Road

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Julianna Margulies

Synopsis: Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war. (Glenn Close) stars as Adrienne Partiger, a society doyenne who flees Singapore with other expatriate women, mostly the wives of servicemen, when Japanese forces invade in 1942. When Read More

The Ripper

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Gabrielle Anwar, Samuel West, Michael York, Adam Couper

Synopsis: Janet Meyers directed this TV movie about the search for Jack the Ripper in London of 1888. As Inspector Hansen (Patrick Bergin) searches for the murderer of East End prostitutes, his suspicions focus on Prince Albert Victor (Samuel West), eldest son of the Prince of Wales and Queen Victoria's Read More

Dating the Enemy

Crew: Costume Designer

Synopsis: A pair of disparate battling lovers get a chance to live in each other's shoes in this lively Australian sex comedy. Though they have been together over a year, Tash and Brett have reached a point where they believe that neither understands the other. Tash is a serious, highly intelligent science Read More

Children of the Revolution

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: Children of the Revolution is an Australian film whose cinematic roots go back to the sardonic comedies of Billy Wilder. It is set in two time periods, the 1950s and 1990s, and goes back and forth between them. In the 1990s, Australian politician Joe Welch (Richard Roxburgh) is having some serious Read More

Billy's Holiday

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Max Cullen, Kris McQuade, Rachael Coopes, Tina Bursill, Drew Forsythe

Synopsis: Since the breakup of his marriage, Billy Apples (Max Cullen), the stocky, middle-aged owner of a hardware store in Sydney, Australia, hasn't had much going on in his life. Billy has one hobby, singing with a jazz band in a club in his neighborhood; he knows that he's not much of a vocalist and Read More

Sirens

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle MacPherson, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: Sex, religion, and morality are the key ingredients in this Australian comedy set in the 1930s. Rev. Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) is a liberal, forward-thinking Anglican priest who is sent on an unusual assignment. Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a popular and highly controversial artist whose Read More

Muriel's Wedding

Crew: Costume Designer

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

The Custodian

Crew: Costume Designer

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

Fortress

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, Kurtwood Smith, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez

Synopsis: Elements of Orwellian science-fiction and old-fashioned prison dramas are combined in this futuristic action film, as an unjustly imprisoned couple attempts to escape from a high-tech jail known as The Fortress. The Fortress is the tool of a repressive government, an imposing, computerized hell Read More

Deadly

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerome Ehlers, Frank Gallacher, Lydia Miller, Caz Lederman

Synopsis: It is a simple thing that police officer Tony Bourke has to do to regain his detective status. All he has to do is go to a remote outback town and clear the local police of any wrongdoing in the shooting of an Aboriginal suspect. After all, he himself recently suffered from being demoted because Read More

Over the Hill

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Sigrid Thornton, Derek Fowlds, Bill Kerr, Steve Bisley

Synopsis: Somewhere in the Northeastern U.S., Alma (Olympia Dukakis) is a 60-year-old recent widow who has never been on her own since her early marriage to a domineering husband. Her son tries to immure her in a dowdy apartment in the basement of his house and showers her with perfunctory and thoughtless Read More

Sweet Talker

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bryan Brown, Karen Allen, Justin Rosniak, Chris Haywood, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: In Sweet Talker, an amiable, charming ex-convict (Bryan Brown) arrives in a small Australian costal city with the intent of duping the populace into investing money in a phony excavation of a sunken ship, which is allegedly filled with gold. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with a young widow (Karen Allen Read More

The Blood of Heroes

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anna Katarina, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Blood of Heroes features a sport that you're not likely to see on ESPN. It's called "juggers", and Rutger Hauer is the champion jugger in the post-apocalyptic world; he goes from village to village with his entourage, brutishly taking on all comers. The action culminates in the bloody "league Read More

Wrangler

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Tushka Bergen, Steven Vidler, Richard Moir, Shane Briant

Synopsis: Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his romantic rival, a dashing but dangerous cattleman Read More

Kangaroo

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Colin Friels, Judy Davis, John Walton, Julie Nihill, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Synopsis: Tim Burstall directed this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel recalling his experiences in Australia in the early 1920s. The film, set at the height of World War I, begins at the English coastal home of writer Richard Somers (Colin Friels) and his German-born wife Harriet (Judy Davis Read More

High Tide

Crew: Costume Designer

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

The Coca-Cola Kid

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, Kris McQuade

Synopsis: The ugly American bullying his way through a foreign country was a subject for comedy in several films of the 1980s, most notably Bill Forsyth's Local Hero and this film from exiled Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev. Eric Roberts plays Becker, an aggressive marketing executive for the Coca-Cola Read More

Fast Talking

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rod Zuanic, Toni Allaylis, Chris Truswell, Steve Bisley, Tracy Mann

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Australian youth Steve Carson (Rod Zuanic) is a product of a home that can charitably be described as dysfunctional. His father is a drunk, his brother a slimy-dope dealer. Carson promises his social worker--and himself--that he'll escape this environment and make something of Read More

The Year of Living Dangerously

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own Read More

Starstruck

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan, Pat Evison, Margo Lee, Max Cullen

Synopsis: Star Struck is a light, frothy pop-culture musical comedy from Australia, where Jackie (Jo Kennedy) dreams of becoming a singing star and her cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) thinks he has what it takes to be a successful manager. After a spot at the hip club in town (wearing a kangaroo suit) fails Read More

Heatwave

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Gregg

Synopsis: Heatwave is the mildly interesting story of a woman's attempt to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity. Kate (Judy Davis), through her own efforts, manages to find some evidence to support her claims and also have a romance. Davis gives Read More

Gallipoli

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Harold Hopkins, Ronny Graham, Stan Green

Synopsis: The first of two consecutive films to see director Peter Weir team with Mel Gibson (the other being The Year of Living Dangerously), Gallipoli follows two idealistic young friends, Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of Read More

Dark Forces

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio

Synopsis: Harlequin is directed by Simon Wincer and tells a tale with echoes in 20th-century Russian history. Nick and Sandra Rast (David Hemmings and Carmen Duncan) have a little boy, Alex (Mark Spain), who is suffering from leukemia. Like normal parents they will do anything to help their son, especially Read More

The Survivor

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten, Angela Punch McGregor, Ralph Cotterill

Synopsis: A mid-air jet disaster leaves the one survivor to avenge the deaths of the others. This supernatural thriller follows him on his search for the bomber that caused the disaster. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blue Fire Lady

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Cathryn Harrison, Mark Holden, Peter Cummins, Marion Edward

Synopsis: Although it makes her father unhappy, Jenny does not want a certain horse sold to the owners of a farm. She sets out to save her favorite animal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More