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Michael Lake is an Australian actor and producer who has over thirty-six years' experience in production and management within the Australian and international film industry. For the past 14 years Lake has run the Warner Roadshow Studios and during this time he has been instrumental in attracting productions valued at $1.6 billion to the Gold Coast, resulting in around $800 million being spent within the region. From 1998 to 2005 he split his time between the Gold Coast and Los Angeles where he was Executive Vice President of World Wide Feature Film Production for Village Roadshow Pictures. In 2006 he returned to the Gold Coast to establish his own production company and consult to Warner Roadshow Studios and Production Services.
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Sweetie
Act like Bob
event1989 star_border 6.1
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The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten roots of their family and placing a strain on Kay and Louis’ relationship.
Dark City
Act like Assistant Stranger
event1998 star_border 7.3
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A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Young Einstein
Act like Manager
event1988 star_border 5.2
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Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
Doom Runners
Act like Endgame Man
event1997 star_border 5.5
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their quest for sanctuary.
A Brand New You
Act like Nerdy Dude
event2014
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Grieving young widower Santiago convinces his landlord - a disgraced biochemist with a serious hygiene problem - to help him clone his dead wife, using their female housemate as a surrogate mother.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Act like Felix Crabtree
event1988 star_border 5.9
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A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
Reckless Kelly
Act like Richard II Student
event1993 star_border 4.3
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A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.
Ted Bundy Had a Son
Act like Jared Oakley
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Brandon is back! In this long-awaited unofficial sequel/spin-off to the Amateur Porn Star Killer trilogy. It is the first film in history to include more than 100 directors! Filmmakers from all around the world have contributed.
Raw FM
Act like Mars (1 ep.)
event1997
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Series revolving around community youth radio station 99.9 Raw FM and the young people who run it.
E Street
Act like Spider (2 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6
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An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
Rafferty's Rules
Act like Wally (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6
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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 programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
The Removalists
First Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 3
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An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
12 Rounds
Producer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5.9
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When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with 12 rounds of near-impossible puzzles and tasks that he must somehow complete to save the life of the woman he loves.
Trapped in Space
Producer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 4.4
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After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
I Live With Me Dad
Associate Producer (1 ep.)
event1985
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Peter Hehir plays full-time loser Sid McCall, professional vagrant and alcoholic on the skids. Haydon Samuels is his young son Christopher who lives with him. At the insistence of those who seek to help, child welfare workers are called-in to retrieve the lad from what authorities classify as "inappropriate living conditions." Someone seems to have overlooked the fact that Christopher does not consider his plight as distressing however and with each visit to the home, all the social workers can get in the way of co-operation, is Christopher's stock-standard reply to their questions..."I live with me dad!"
A Place to Call Home
Producer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 7
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Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
Hotel de Love
Producer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 4.2
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10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
Irresistible Force
Producer (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 5.2
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A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.
Tarzan and the Lost City
Producer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 4.2
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Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
The Facts of Life Down Under
Producer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 5
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Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a beau from many years ago; Natalie is stranded in the outback; and Tootie meets a Yale student who pretends to be a young Aborigine.
Fortress
Associate Producer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.9
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After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.
Chameleon
Producer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 6.3
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A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.
The Man from Snowy River
Production Supervisor (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6.9
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Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.
Bait
Supervising Producer (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.7
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A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
The Marine 2
Producer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5.9
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Rebels seize control of the hotel where a Marine sniper and his wife are staying. Can he save the day?
Joey
Producer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.2
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Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
The Fury Within
Producer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 3.2
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A surburban California family is beset by the power of supernatural subconscious. A bone-chilling thriller with electrifying effects.
Night of Fear
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 5.5
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A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorized by a drooling, gibbering psycho, who also has a colony of rats.
Occasional Coarse Language
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 4.3
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A group of women get together in front of the TV and talk about their sexual misadventures and problems...
The Condemned
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 6.1
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Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
Heart of Fire
Line Producer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5
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While fighting a petrol tanker blaze, troubled firefighter Max Tucker discovers a young girl trapped under its wheels and finds that it is up to him to save her.
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
Producer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5.7
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Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.
Next of Kin
Production Manager (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6.3
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After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Production Manager (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 4.8
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An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
Line Producer (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6
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Three people, including a pregnant woman, embark on a yachting excursion during a hurricane.
The Far Country
Associate Producer (2 ep.)
event1987
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Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.
Space: Above and Beyond
Producer (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 7.2
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Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.
The Henderson Kids
Associate Producer (24 ep.)
event1985 star_border 3.5
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The Henderson Kids is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.
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