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Alan Cassell
Born: 16th Feb 1932 Manchester, UK - Died 30th Aug 2017
Dept: Acting
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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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 30
Film: 20 (67%)
Television: 10 (33%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action, TV Movie
Filmography
2004
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 ... view
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Stan Rogers
2003
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 ... view
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Willy Norman
Oct 1994 (first aired)
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halif ... view
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Doctor Wallace (1 ep.)
Sep 1994 (first aired)
Janus is an Australian drama television series screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 and 1995. Two series were produced, with a ... view
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Chief Justice (2 ep.)
Sep 1993 (first aired)
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional countr ... view
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Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Aug 1992 (first aired)
Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised f ... view
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Sgt. Yeates (1 ep.)
Mar 1989 (first aired)
The Power, The Passion is an Australian television daytime soap opera produced by the Seven Network in 1989.
The series was devised to lure audiences ... view
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Unknown/various (130 ep.)
1988
For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. ... view
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Gordon Landy
Oct 1988 (first aired)
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossib ... view
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Dr Wolfgang Gerstner (1 ep.)
1988
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 ... view
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Belinda's Father
1988
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 ... view
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Bob McLelland
1987
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War. ... view
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John Gorton
Feb 1987 (first aired)
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.
Rafferty's Rules was one of the first pr ... view
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Bill Ryan (1 ep.)
May 1986 (first aired)
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Roy ... view
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Robert Freeman (1 ep.)
Charles (1 ep.)
1986
A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that ... view
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1984
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 ... view
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Robbie
Sep 1984 (first aired)
Special Squad was an Australian television series m
The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too s ... view
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Unknown/various (43 ep.)
1984
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- ... view
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Lohan
1982
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, ... view
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Det. Brophy
1982
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 ... view
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Ray Sangster
May 1982 (first aired)
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit. ... view
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Governor Phillip (1 ep.)
1982
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results. ... view
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Lieutenant Ted Carse
1981
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys. ... view
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Mr. Vickers
1980
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 ... view
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Gerry Cooper
1980
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 ... view
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Lord Kitchener
1980
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 ... view
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Mr. Porter
1979
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 ... view
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Dick Wordley
1978
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house. ... view
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Sammy Ross
1978
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 ... view
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1975
A sleazy private detective named Horatio Plugg is hired to keep watch over a brothel. Inspector Closer is onto him though. ... view
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Herman Cavanagh