George Ogilvie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Ogilvie (5 March 1931 - 5 April 2020) was an Australian actor and film director. He was born in Goulburn, New South Wales in 1931.[1] He directed Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with George Miller. He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre and the performing arts. His 1988 television feature Captain Johnno was awarded an International Emmy. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Ogilvie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children. (more)
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children. (more)
The Place at the Coast (1987)
Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and ... (more)
Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and ... (more)
Short Changed (1986)
Described as "an Aboriginal Kramer vs Kramer," this is the moving account of an Aboriginal political activist fighting his white ex-wife for joint custody of their son. (more)
Described as "an Aboriginal Kramer vs Kramer," this is the moving account of an Aboriginal political activist fighting his white ex-wife for joint custody of their son. (more)
The Crossing (1990)
A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside world into the ... (more)
A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside world into the ... (more)
The Battlers (1994)
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant. (more)
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant. (more)
The Dismissal (1983)
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker ... (more)
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker ... (more)
The Sound of Love (1978)
A romance about two people who are both disabled. Racing car driver Dave and street-girl Eileen fall in love after he has a car accident. (more)
A romance about two people who are both disabled. Racing car driver Dave and street-girl Eileen fall in love after he has a car accident. (more)
Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (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 search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship. (more)
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 search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship. (more)
The Last of the Ryans (1997)
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption. (more)
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption. (more)