Birthday:
07-08-1945
(79 years)
Birthplace:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Biography
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Graeme Blundell (born 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer. Blundell was born in Melbourne; he grew up in Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at University High School and the University of Melbourne. In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play Dimboola at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of Homicide (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 70's sex-comedy film Alvin Purple. He has written extensively in The Australian newspaper as well as writing biographies of Brett Whiteley (Brett Whiteley: An Unauthorised Life, 1996, with his then wife Margot Hilton), and Graham Kennedy (King, 2003).
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Graeme Blundell (born 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer. Blundell was born in Melbourne; he grew up in Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at University High School and the University of Melbourne. In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play Dimboola at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of Homicide (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 70's sex-comedy film Alvin Purple. He has written extensively in The Australian newspaper as well as writing biographies of Brett Whiteley (Brett Whiteley: An Unauthorised Life, 1996, with his then wife Margot Hilton), and Graham Kennedy (King, 2003).
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Idiot Box
Act like Detective Eric
event1997 star_border 5
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Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
Alvin Purple
Act like Alvin Purple
event1973 star_border 5.6
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Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Alvin Rides Again
Act like Alvin Purple / Balls McGee
event1974 star_border 4.8
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Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
Don's Party
Act like Simon
event1976 star_border 5.5
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On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.
The Year My Voice Broke
Act like Nils Olson
event1987 star_border 7.1
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Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
Stork
Act like Westy
event1971 star_border 5.9
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Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
Pacific Banana
Act like Martin
event1981 star_border 6
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The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
The Naked Bunyip
Act like Graeme
event1970 star_border 5.7
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A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians.
Weekend of Shadows
Act like Bernie
event1978
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In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
In Her Skin
Act like Ivan
event2010 star_border 6
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Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
Those Dear Departed
Act like Dr. Howie
event1987 star_border 4
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A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.
Brake Fluid
event1971
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This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Act like Ruwee Naberrie
event2005 star_border 7.4
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The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power -- and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
Australian Dream
Act like Geoffrey Stubbs
event1987 star_border 1
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Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives.
The Odd Angry Shot
Act like Dawson
event1979 star_border 6.1
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A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
The Best of Friends
Act like Tom
event1982
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The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
Mad Dog Morgan
Act like Italian Jack
event1976 star_border 6
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The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Melvin, Son of Alvin
Act like Alvin Purple
event1984 star_border 4
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A shy young man is irresistible to women.
Not Quite Hollywood
Act like Self
event2008 star_border 6.8
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As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Vietnam
Act like Miles
event1987 star_border 8.6
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The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Midnite Spares
Act like Sidebottom
event1983 star_border 5.9
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After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
Doctors & Nurses
Act like Mr X
event1981
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Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
The Distant Home
Act like Dr. Chambers
event1992 star_border 5
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Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
Joh's Jury
Act like Nicholas Cowdery
event1993 star_border 7
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Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
The Love of Lionel's Life
Act like Stan
event2000
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Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
Watt's Last Voyage
event1965
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A tale told with humour and pathos; a yarn spun between decks about an old salt whose bitter experiences one friendless dawn persuade him to abandon wayfaring for wading.
Marking Time
Act like Ralph Dare (4 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6
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Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia.
The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.
East West 101
Act like Shock Jock (2 ep.)
event2007 star_border 6.7
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Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.
Underbelly
Act like Jack Lang (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.6
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Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
Medivac
(48 ep.)
event1996
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Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation. The series was also known as Adrenaline Junkies overseas.
Medivac was set in the emergency department of Brisbane's fictional Bethlehem West Hospital, where a dedicated medical team work in the demanding world of emergency medicine. The team specialises in the evacuation of disaster areas, journeying by helicopter to remote areas inaccessible by ambulance. They also work in the city streets and the suburbs involving themselves with the patients, their families and the police.
Through My Eyes
Act like Rex Kuchel (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 9
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The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
Ocean Star
Act like Clive 'Swampy' Marsh (13 ep.)
event2003
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Ocean Star is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten on 10 February 2003 until 2003.
Laid
Act like Graham McVie (12 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.1
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Roo McVie is placed in an uncomfortable situation when her former lovers start dying in strange circumstances. With her best friend EJ, Roo sets out to find a pattern and stop any more deaths.
Alvin Purple
Act like Alvin Purple (13 ep.)
event1976
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Alvin Purple was an Australian television situation comedy series made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1976.
The series followed continued adventures of the title character, previously featured in successful sex comedy feature films Alvin Purple and Alvin Purple Rides Again.
Graeme Blundell reprises the role of Alvin in the series. Alvin cohabitates with a new character, flatmate Spike. As in the films various women inexplicably lust after Alvin. The women were played by a stream of recognisable Australian actors in guest starring roles including Tina Bursill, Jackie Weaver, Belinda Giblin, June Rich, Jane Harders, Pamela Gibbons, Kirrily Nolan, Peta Peita, Judy Lynne, Suzanne Church, Carla Hoogeveen, Chantal Contouri, Anya Saleky. Dawn Lake and Leonard Teale also acted in the series.
Screen
Act like Host (16 ep.)
event2018
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Australia’s favourite film critic Margaret Pomeranz alongside actor and writer Graeme Blundell. This widely respected duo will continue to do what they do best; critique cinema releases and premium TV dramas as well as interview the who’s who of screen talent from in front of and behind the camera.
The Hollowmen
Act like Geoff (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7
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The Hollowmen is set in the offices of the Central Policy Unit, a special think tank personally set up by the Prime Minister to help him in the most important job of all - getting re-elected. Their brief is "long term vision"; to stop worrying about tomorrow's headlines, and focus on next week's.
Police Rescue
Act like Coleman (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.4
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Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
Homicide
Act like Bank Customer (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 4.3
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Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.
Rafferty's Rules
Act like Bill Wiley (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.
Shock Horror Aunty
Act like Self (3 ep.)
event2013
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Direct from ABC TV's complaints desk, this special shines the spotlight on some of Aunty's edgiest and cheekiest moments. Programs causing outrage amongst viewers, the media or ABC TV management over the last few decades.
Water Under the Bridge
Act like Ralph (9 ep.)
event1980
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Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.
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