Arthur Dignam

Arthur Dignam

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Dignam (born 9 September 1939) is an Australian character actor, born on Lord Howe Island. He attended Newington College (1955–1956) as a boarder. He is possibly best known for one of his early roles, that of Brother Francine in Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground (1976). While he has worked mainly in film and television, he has also worked in theatre, including musical theatre. He played Pontius Pilate in the Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972–73, and appears on the original Australian cast recording. His son is the actor Nicholas Gledhill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Dignam, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Arthur Dignam
  • Popularity: 2.305
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1939-09-09
  • Place of Birth: Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia
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Arthur Dignam Movies

  • 2001
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    Moulin Rouge!

    Moulin Rouge!

    7.556 2001 HD

    A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century....

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  • 1976
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    The Devil's Playground

    The Devil's Playground

    6.7 1976 HD

    A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid...

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  • 1981
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    Strange Behavior

    Strange Behavior

    5.41 1981 HD

    When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments...

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  • 1982
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    We of the Never Never

    We of the Never Never

    5.9 1982 HD

    Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome...

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  • 1976
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    Summer of Secrets

    Summer of Secrets

    5 1976 HD

    A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.

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  • 1987
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    Comrades

    Comrades

    6.974 1987 HD

    The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign...

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  • 1974
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    Jock Petersen

    Jock Petersen

    3.3 1974 HD

    Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives...

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  • 1985
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    Burke & Wills

    Burke & Wills

    4.9 1985 HD

    A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

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  • 1987
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    The Right Hand Man

    The Right Hand Man

    4 1987 HD

    A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

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  • 1984
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    The Wild Duck

    The Wild Duck

    6.7 1984 HD

    Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

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  • 1983
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    The Return of Captain Invincible

    The Return of Captain Invincible

    5.8 1983 HD

    In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to...

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  • 1987
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    Those Dear Departed

    Those Dear Departed

    4 1987 HD

    A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.

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  • 1988
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    The Dreaming

    The Dreaming

    5.3 1988 HD

    When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot,...

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  • 1993
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    The Nostradamus Kid

    The Nostradamus Kid

    4.6 1993 HD

    When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.

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  • 1988
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    The Everlasting Secret Family

    The Everlasting Secret Family

    4.9 1988 HD

    A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this...

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  • 2008
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    Australia

    Australia

    6.593 2008 HD

    Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to...

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  • 1991
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    Isabelle Eberhardt

    Isabelle Eberhardt

    5.7 1991 HD

    The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her...

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  • 1973
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    Libido

    Libido

    4.2 1973 HD

    Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal...

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.4 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1996
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    Dating the Enemy

    Dating the Enemy

    6.5 1996 HD

    Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their...

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  • 1979
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    The Hero

    The Hero

    10 1979 HD

    Australian ABC TV children's educational program shows how a TV show actor is cast and works to create an episode of a TV program.

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  • 1986
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    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    5.7 1986 HD

    Deep within a remote mountain somewhere in Africa lies the fold and endless riches of the legendary King Solomon. Many have tried to find the...

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  • 1983
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    The Dismissal

    The Dismissal

    1 1983 HD

    The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then...

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  • 1989
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    Shadow of the Cobra

    Shadow of the Cobra

    7 1989 HD

    Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia...

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  • 1978
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    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    6.8 1978 HD

    The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and...

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  • 1977
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    The Duellists

    The Duellists

    7.3 1977 HD

    In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a...

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  • 1998
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    Gods and Monsters

    Gods and Monsters

    6.94 1998 HD

    It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired...

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  • 1981
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    Grendel Grendel Grendel

    Grendel Grendel Grendel

    4.3 1981 HD

    This is an animated story covering the ancient legend of Beowulf, as narrated by Grendel himself, the "monster" in the legend. Aimed more at adults...

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  • 1997
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    Warm Strangers

    Warm Strangers

    1 1997 HD

    A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.

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  • 1976
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    The New Avengers

    The New Avengers

    6.9 1976 HD

    The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The...

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  • 1994
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    Escape from Jupiter

    Escape from Jupiter

    5 1994 HD

    Escape from Jupiter is a space adventure television series about a small group of children from a mining colony on Jupiter's moon, Io, who are forced...

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.8 1979 HD

    This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye...

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.1 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 1984
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    Bodyline

    Bodyline

    7.7 1984 HD

    Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and...

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  • 1991
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    The Storyteller: Greek Myths

    The Storyteller: Greek Myths

    8.112 1991 HD

    A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.

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  • 1980
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    Water Under the Bridge

    Water Under the Bridge

    1 1980 HD

    Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.

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