John Howard

John Howard

Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).

  • Title: John Howard
  • Popularity: 22.957
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1952-10-22
  • Place of Birth: Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
  • Homepage: https://lmcm.com.au/artists/john-howard/
  • Also Known As: Τζον Χάουαρντ
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John Howard Movies

  • 1988
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    Young Einstein
    Young Einstein

    5.102 1988 HD

    Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Yahoo Serious

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  • 2006
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    Jindabyne
    Jindabyne

    5.5 2006 HD

    Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Laura Linney

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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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Guy Pearce

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  • 1980
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    The Club
    The Club

    6 1980 HD

    The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jack Thompson

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  • 1983
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    Bush Christmas
    Bush Christmas

    5.8 1983 HD

    In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: John Ewart

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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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  • 1988
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    Around the World in Eighty Ways
    Around the World in Eighty Ways

    1 1988 HD

    Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Philip Quast

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  • 2003
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    Take Away
    Take Away

    3.9 2003 HD

    Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Vince Colosimo

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  • 2015
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    Mad Max: Fury Road
    Mad Max: Fury Road

    7.596 2015 HD

    An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Tom Hardy

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  • 2004
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    A Man's Gotta Do
    A Man's Gotta Do

    4.2 2004 HD

    Eddy does what he has to do to give his family what they want. For the last 25 years, he has secretly moonlighted as a "standover" man, purely to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rebecca Frith

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  • 2003
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    Japanese Story
    Japanese Story

    6.4 2003 HD

    Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Toni Collette

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  • 2001
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    The Man Who Sued God
    The Man Who Sued God

    6.555 2001 HD

    A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Billy Connolly

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  • 1999
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    In a Savage Land
    In a Savage Land

    5.1 1999 HD

    Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rufus Sewell

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  • 1998
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    Never Tell Me Never
    Never Tell Me Never

    1 1998 HD

    This is the story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Claudia Karvan

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  • 1997
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    Blackrock
    Blackrock

    6 1997 HD

    In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Laurence Breuls

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  • 1988
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    Evil Angels
    Evil Angels

    6.732 1988 HD

    Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Meryl Streep

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  • 1984
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    Strikebound
    Strikebound

    5.3 1984 HD

    Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Chris Haywood

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  • 1984
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    Razorback
    Razorback

    5.753 1984 HD

    In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Gregory Harrison

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  • 2015
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    Last Cab to Darwin
    Last Cab to Darwin

    6.851 2015 HD

    Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Caton

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  • 2002
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    The Road from Coorain
    The Road from Coorain

    7.5 2002 HD

    A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Juliet Stevenson

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  • 2018
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    The Merger
    The Merger

    5.808 2018 HD

    A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Damian Callinan

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  • 1982
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    The Highest Honour
    The Highest Honour

    5.7 1982 HD

    After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Howard

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  • 2014
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    Grace Under Water
    Grace Under Water

    1 2014 HD

    Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Zoe Carides

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  • 1975
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    Capone
    Capone

    5.959 1975 HD

    Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Ben Gazzara

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  • 2018
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    Frontier
    Frontier

    5 2018 HD

    Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Ricardo Cárdenas

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  • 2019
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    A Matter Of Principle
    A Matter Of Principle

    5.5 2019 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Ricardo Cárdenas

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  • 1983
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    Gary's Story
    Gary's Story

    1 1983 HD

    A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Howard

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  • 2024
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    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    7.724 2024 HD

    As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy

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  • 1970
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    To The Rescue
    To The Rescue

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1993
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    The Girl from Tomorrow
    The Girl from Tomorrow

    7.2 1993 HD

    Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Katharine Cullen

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  • 2003
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    Always Greener
    Always Greener

    1 2003 HD

    Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Howard

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  • 2002
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    The Job
    The Job

    6.6 2002 HD

    Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He's struggling to balance a challenging personal life with...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Denis Leary

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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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  • 2004
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    Jessica
    Jessica

    5.6 2004 HD

    Set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leeanna Walsman

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  • 2017
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    Janet King
    Janet King

    7 2017 HD

    Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Marta Dusseldorp

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  • 2017
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    The Warriors
    The Warriors

    2.8 2017 HD

    The Warriors is set in the world of Australian Rules Football. It explores the elite world of professional sport through the eyes of two new recruits...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gordan Churchill

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  • 1981
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    A Town Like Alice
    A Town Like Alice

    7.4 1981 HD

    Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Helen Morse

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  • 2016
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    Soul Mates
    Soul Mates

    8 2016 HD

    Soul Mates has fun with big life questions as the twin souls of a pair of Bondi Hipsters appear throughout history and the future in a fresh blend of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Christiaan Van Vuuren

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  • 2019
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    SeaChange
    SeaChange

    8.3 2019 HD

    SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sigrid Thornton

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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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  • 2019
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    Get Krack!n
    Get Krack!n

    5.8 2019 HD

    Having conquered the cutthroat world of satirical online cooking shows with The Katering Show, the two Kates are ready to take a Sassy Swipe at...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kate McCartney

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  • 2023
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    Bump
    Bump

    7.1 2023 HD

    An unexpected pregnancy complicates the lives of two families. The series centers around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nathalie Morris

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  • 2009
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    All Saints
    All Saints

    6.2 2009 HD

    Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judith McGrath

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  • 2000
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    The Games
    The Games

    7 2000 HD

    The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Clarke

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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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