Richard Moir

Richard Moir

Richard Moir (born 1950) is an Australian former actor and editor. He is known for many Australian film roles and in the TV soap opera Prisoner as the original character of electrician Eddie Cook. In 1990, Moir was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the degenerative effects of which gradually brought his acting career to a premature end in 1999. Moir later underwent deep brain stimulation therapy, a process covered by the 2006 documentary The Bridge At Midnight Trembles. He was married to Australian actress Julie Nihill, and they have two daughters.

  • Title: Richard Moir
  • Popularity: 4.268
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1950-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Queensland, Australia
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Richard Moir Movies

  • 1998
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    Welcome to Woop Woop
    Welcome to Woop Woop

    5.9 1998 HD

    A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Johnathon Schaech

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  • 1980
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    The Chain Reaction
    The Chain Reaction

    5.7 1980 HD

    Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Steve Bisley

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  • 1982
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    Running on Empty
    Running on Empty

    5.2 1982 HD

    Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Terry Serio

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  • 1991
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    Isabelle Eberhardt

    3.5 1991 HD

    Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mathilda May

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  • 1982
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    Heatwave
    Heatwave

    5.2 1982 HD

    During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Davis

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  • 1989
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    Minnamurra
    Minnamurra

    5.2 1989 HD

    Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Jeff Fahey

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  • 1979
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    In Search of Anna
    In Search of Anna

    5.5 1979 HD

    Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 1985
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    An Indecent Obsession
    An Indecent Obsession

    4.5 1985 HD

    Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Wendy Hughes

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  • 1985
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    Wrong World
    Wrong World

    1 1985 HD

    David Trueman is a young doctor who dreams of going to South America to practice medicine among the disenfranchised. Arriving in Bolivia, he...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 1987
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    Jilted
    Jilted

    1 1987 HD

    Two people who have had disastrous love affairs meet on a tropical island resort.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Moir

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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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  • 1985
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    Remember Me
    Remember Me

    1 1985 HD

    A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. She is torn between her still strong...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Wendy Hughes

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  • 1988
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    Hard Knuckle
    Hard Knuckle

    5 1988 HD

    In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia, the most popular sport is Hard Knuckle, a bloodier form of pool. Harry is a pool hustler, wants to...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Steve Bisley

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  • 1983
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    The Plains of Heaven
    The Plains of Heaven

    1 1983 HD

    Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of coping with isolation. The ageing Cunningham seems to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 1974
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    27A
    27A

    1 1974 HD

    A middle-aged alcoholic is sentenced to six weeks in jail for a minor offense. While there he undergoes psychiatric treatment for his alcoholism and...

    Genre:

    Cast: Robert McDarra

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  • 1983
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    Going Down
    Going Down

    3.5 1983 HD

    Karli's over the Sydney scene and its small-pond bohemian excesses. That's why she's moving to New York City in the morning. But over the course of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tracy Mann

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  • 2006
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    The Bridge at Midnight Trembles
    The Bridge at Midnight Trembles

    1 2006 HD

    On March 15, 2004, Richard Moir underwent an operation for Parkinson's Disease. Called Deep Brain Stimulation, electrodes are placed in the brain...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 1997
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    One Way Ticket
    One Way Ticket

    5 1997 HD

    Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Peter Phelps

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  • 1982
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    Sweet Dreamers
    Sweet Dreamers

    1 1982 HD

    Two young Australian filmmakers meet in London and return home with dreams of making films that reflect their Australian ideals. A film about dreams...

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    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 2022
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    Not Dark Yet
    Not Dark Yet

    7 2022 HD

    Confined to his room in an aged care facility, an elderly man with a debilitating disease struggles with his sons abrupt departure.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nicholas Denton

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  • 1979
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    The Odd Angry Shot
    The Odd Angry Shot

    6.1 1979 HD

    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...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Graham Kennedy

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  • 1997
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    Joey
    Joey

    6.2 1997 HD

    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....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rebecca Gibney

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  • 1992
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    Deadly
    Deadly

    1 1992 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Jerome Ehlers

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  • 1974
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    27A
    27A

    1 1974 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Robert McDarra

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  • 2006
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    The Bridge at Midnight Trembles
    The Bridge at Midnight Trembles

    1 2006 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 2006
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    The Bridge at Midnight Trembles
    The Bridge at Midnight Trembles

    1 2006 HD

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 2001
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    Round the Twist
    Round the Twist

    7.182 2001 HD

    Round the Twist is a Logie Award-winning Australian children's television series about three children and their father who live in a lighthouse and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Andrew S. Gilbert

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  • 1999
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    Law of the Land
    Law of the Land

    1 1999 HD

    Law of the Land was an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series was set in the fictional country town of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Moir

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  • 1986
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    Land of Hope
    Land of Hope

    1 1986 HD

    Land of Hope is a 1986 mini series about a Catholic family over eighty years.

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    Cast: Melissa Jaffer

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  • 1988
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    Alterations
    Alterations

    1 1988 HD

    Drama series dealing with adultery between middle-class Australians in Canberra.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Karen Linley

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  • 1989
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    Bodysurfer
    Bodysurfer

    1 1989 HD

    Bodysurfer charts the odyssey of David Lang. Searching beyond mid-life crisis, David finds unanswered questions of his childhood can lead him toward...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Toni Moran

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  • 1993
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    Phoenix
    Phoenix

    8 1993 HD

    Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Sean Scully

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  • 1983
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    The Sullivans
    The Sullivans

    4.8 1983 HD

    The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Paul Cronin

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  • 1984
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    Singles
    Singles

    1 1984 HD

    Singles is a 1984 Australian television mini series about Sydney doctor Alison advertises in a singles magazine and meets five different men, the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elizabeth Alexander

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