Alan Cassell
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Alan Cassell (born 1932) was an Australian actor, born in the UK and best known for his roles in film and television.
Cassell was one of the actors who worked in Bruce Beresford's early Australian films.
Film credits include:Money Movers, Cathy's Child (for which he was nominated for "Best Actor"), Squizzy Taylor, Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues and The Club. His most recent films are The Honorable Wally Norman and Strange Bedfellows.
TV roles include: Taurus Rising, Special Squad, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion, Blue Heelers, SeaChange, Stingers and MDA.
Cassell commenced his acting career in WA and worked for many years as a stage Actor. Winning "Best Actor of the Year" for his role in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" He later worked for the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was in the original cast of "Away" which toured to New York and appeared in "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Lauren Bacall for the Sydney Theatre Company.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6349 |
| Birthday | 1932-02-16 |
| Place of Birth | Manchester, UK |
| Also Known As |
2004
Strange Bedfellows
5.75/32
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legi...
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Strange Bedfellows
1980
Breaker Morant
7.1/158
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca...
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Breaker Morant
1978
Money Movers
6.075/20
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
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Money Movers
1975
Plugg
3.5/6
A sleazy private detective named Horatio Plugg is hired to keep watch over a brothel. Inspector Closer is onto him though.
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Plugg
2003
The Honourable Wally Norman
5.833/3
A meat worker is accidentally nominated to run for Parliament and realises that to save the meat works he has to get elected. All that stands in his w...
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The Honourable Wally Norman
1988
Touch the Sun: Princess Kate
7.5/2
Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her sear...
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Touch the Sun: Princess Kate
1982
Squizzy Taylor
5.5/4
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive,...
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Squizzy Taylor
1986
The Big Hurt
4/4
A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that...
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The Big Hurt
1979
Cathy's Child
7/2
Cathy Baikas is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When her daughter's father kidnaps the chil...
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Cathy's Child
1988
Midnight Dancer
5/3
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney ca...
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Midnight Dancer
1984
The Settlement
8/1
Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-...
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The Settlement
1984
The Fire in the Stone
6.25/2
Teenager Ernie lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of Coober Pedy in outback South Australia. When his cache of preci...
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The Fire in the Stone
1978
The Newman Shame
9/1
John Brandy is an ex-cop on holiday in Singapore with his girlfriend Ginger when he hears an old Perth banker friend of his, Frank Newman, has committ...
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The Newman Shame
1982
The Dark Room
5/2
A slightly disturbed young amateur photographer finds that his father has been secretly having an affair with his co-worker. Thus begins a spiral into...
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The Dark Room
1980
The Club
6/20
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately...
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The Club
1982
The Highest Honour
6.6/5
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
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The Highest Honour
1987
Vietnam
7.625/8
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam
1980
Harlequin
6.469/48
Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the b...
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Harlequin
1981
Puberty Blues
5.274/42
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
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Puberty Blues
1988
The Four Minute Mile
7.5/3
For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge....
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