John Clayton

John Clayton

John Clayton (7 April 1940 – 25 September 2003) was an Australian television and film character actor, primarily in drama series and soap operas. Clayton's most prominenr roles included that of Inspector Bill Adams on Police Rescue and Maurie Barnard on Echo Point. He also had recurring roles on Big Sky as Roland 'Riley' Watson, and on Grass Roots as Harry Bond.

  • Title: John Clayton
  • Popularity: 4.377
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1940-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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John Clayton Movies

  • 1975
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    Sidecar Racers
    Sidecar Racers

    2.5 1975 HD

    You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Murphy

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  • 1987
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    High Tide
    High Tide

    6.75 1987 HD

    A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Davis

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  • 1985
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    Unfinished Business
    Unfinished Business

    3 1985 HD

    Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover...

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    Cast: John Clayton

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  • 1994
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    Shotgun Wedding
    Shotgun Wedding

    1 1994 HD

    Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Aden Young

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  • 1982
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    Far East
    Far East

    6 1982 HD

    A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bryan Brown

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  • 1986
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    The Challenge
    The Challenge

    3 1986 HD

    The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: John Wood

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  • 1989
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    Cappuccino
    Cappuccino

    1 1989 HD

    The story is told through the eyes of Max, a stand-up comedian and taxi driver, who gets involved in a blackmail case and lands in prison. Max uses...

    Genre:

    Cast: Jeanie Drynan

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  • 1991
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    Strangers
    Strangers

    3.5 1991 HD

    A married man meets a stunning brunette at an airport and has an affair with her. After a while though he wants to break it off but realises the...

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    Cast: James Healey

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  • 1977
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    High Rolling
    High Rolling

    1 1977 HD

    Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joseph Bottoms

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  • 1982
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    Freedom
    Freedom

    5 1982 HD

    Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life --...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Jon Blake

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  • 1985
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    After Hours
    After Hours

    5.8 1985 HD

    The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anna Maria Monticelli

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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...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Max Phipps

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Arthur Dignam

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  • 1988
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    Out of the Body
    Out of the Body

    4 1988 HD

    An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Mark Hembrow

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  • 1983
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    Midnite Spares
    Midnite Spares

    5.9 1983 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: James Laurie

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  • 1978
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    The Irishman
    The Irishman

    1 1978 HD

    Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman,...

    Genre:

    Cast: Michael Craig

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  • 1988
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    To Make a Killing
    To Make a Killing

    6.3 1988 HD

    Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life. On the other side of the tracks live...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Tamblyn Lord

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  • 1994
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    Police Rescue: The Movie
    Police Rescue: The Movie

    5.5 1994 HD

    A narcotics detective, suspected of corruption, gets a transfer to the Police Rescue Squad. An unstable man holds a daycare center hostage.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Gary Sweet

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  • 1993
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    Joh's Jury
    Joh's Jury

    7 1993 HD

    Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Simon Bossell

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  • 1992
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    The Time Game
    The Time Game

    4.8 1992 HD

    13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his school. He is sent to stay with his grandparents over...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Pat Bishop

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  • 1987
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    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    5.2 1987 HD

    A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Wendy Hughes

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  • 1981
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    ...Maybe This Time
    ...Maybe This Time

    4.25 1981 HD

    Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Morris

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  • 1979
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    Dawn!
    Dawn!

    9.5 1979 HD

    Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bronwyn Mackay-Payne

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  • 1978
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    Newsfront
    Newsfront

    5.6 1978 HD

    Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bill Hunter

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  • 1988
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    Boundaries of the Heart
    Boundaries of the Heart

    1 1988 HD

    A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Wendy Hughes

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  • 1988
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    Sebastian and the Sparrow
    Sebastian and the Sparrow

    7.5 1988 HD

    The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and...

    Genre:

    Cast: Alexander Bainbridge

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  • 2004
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    Farscape
    Farscape

    7.856 2004 HD

    A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Ben Browder

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  • 1999
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    Big Sky
    Big Sky

    8 1999 HD

    Big Sky is an Australian television drama series produced by John Edwards that ran for two seasons on Network Ten from 1997 to 1999. The show...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gary Sweet

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  • 2003
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    Grass Roots
    Grass Roots

    1 2003 HD

    Grass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003. The series is set around...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Geoff Morrell

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  • 2006
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    Blue Heelers
    Blue Heelers

    6.6 2006 HD

    Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Wood

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hugo Weaving

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  • 1996
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    Police Rescue
    Police Rescue

    6.4 1996 HD

    Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Gary Sweet

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robyn Nevin

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  • 1999
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    Heartbreak High
    Heartbreak High

    6.9 1999 HD

    The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Callan Mulvey

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  • 1998
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    The Day of the Roses
    The Day of the Roses

    6.9 1998 HD

    On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gigi Edgley

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  • 1992
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    The Flying Doctors
    The Flying Doctors

    6.5 1992 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Grubb

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  • 1996
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    Police Rescue
    Police Rescue

    6.4 1996 HD

    Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Gary Sweet

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  • 1995
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    Echo Point
    Echo Point

    4 1995 HD

    Echo Point was an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995. The series...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Martin Henderson

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  • 1996
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    One West Waikiki
    One West Waikiki

    7 1996 HD

    One West Waikiki is an American crime/drama TV show set in Hawaii which ran from 1994-1996. It starred Cheryl Ladd, Richard Burgi and Kayla Blake and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Cheryl Ladd

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  • 1993
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    E Street
    E Street

    7.2 1993 HD

    An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast: Diane Craig

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  • 1993
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    E Street
    E Street

    7.2 1993 HD

    An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast: Diane Craig

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  • 1976
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    Homicide
    Homicide

    4.3 1976 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charles Tingwell

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  • 1990
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    Rafferty's Rules
    Rafferty's Rules

    6 1990 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Wood

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  • 1990
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    Rafferty's Rules
    Rafferty's Rules

    6 1990 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Wood

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