Garry McDonald

Garry McDonald
Date of Birth: 30 Oct 1948
Country: Australia
Biography: Garry Macdonald is an actor based in Sydney, Australia. His most famous roles are as the title character in '70s Australian sitcom "The Norman Gunston Show", and as one of the leads in the long-running '80s Australian sitcom "Mother and Son"
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Actor)
Biography submitted by CosmicMonkey
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (14)
Moulin Rouge!
The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine... (imdb)
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
The true story of Molly Craig, a young black Australian girl who leads her younger sister and cousin in an escape from an internment camp, set up as a part of a government policy to train Aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society. (Miramax)
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The Rage In Placid Lake
Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake, finishes high school and decides to do the one thing that will annoy his new age parents the most -- go straight! A few weeks with a library of self- help manuals and Placid has it sorted -- and he has the haircut and the cheap suit to prove it. (Palace Films)
The Pirate Movie
The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship (Christopher Atkins) end up having saves his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates. (imdb)
Mr. Accident
A very clumsy man and his UFO-obsessed girlfriend discover a plan made by his boss to market eggs laced with nicotine.
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Don\
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Australian drama following the pursuit and conviction of Gordon Wood (David Lyons) - a former chauffeur to a wealthy stockbroker - for the murder of model Caroline Byrne (Cariba Heine). Her body was found at the base of the sheer cliffs of The Gap, a notorious Sydney suicide spot in 1995. Wood claimed she took her own life because she was haunted by her mother's suicide and was suffering depression at the time. But her father Tony Byrne (Garry McDonald) didn't believe him...
The Picture Show Man
At the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black and white). (imdb)
Mother and Son
Arthur Beare is a 40 something son still living at home taking care of his senile mother Maggie. However no matter what he does he cannot seem to get ahead and is always coming unstuck, where Robert cannot put a foot wrong in his mothers eyes, where all he is after is his mothers hidden money. (imdb)
The Norman Gunston Show
Comedy series focused around sketches with and interviews conducted by the character of Norman Gunston.
The Light Between Oceans
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat. (imdb)
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Ghosts CAN Do It
A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits. (imdb)
Struck by Lightning
This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. (imdb)
Wills & Burke
Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km. [IMDB]