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: 6.288
  • 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!

    7.569 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....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nicole Kidman

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Arthur Dignam

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  • 1981
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    Strange Behavior
    Strange Behavior

    5.4 1981 HD

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

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Michael Murphy

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Angela Punch McGregor

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  • 1987
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    Comrades
    Comrades

    7 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robin Soans

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  • 1974
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    Jock Petersen
    Jock Petersen

    4 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jack Thompson

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  • 1984
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    The Wild Duck
    The Wild Duck

    7.5 1984 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jeremy Irons

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rupert Everett

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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.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Garry McDonald

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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,...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Arthur Dignam

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  • 1993
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    The Nostradamus Kid
    The Nostradamus Kid

    4.6 1993 HD

    The spiritual and sexual coming of age of a Seventh-Day Adventist boy in 1950s Australia. Ken Elkin is a "randy young man" who is told that the world...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Noah Taylor

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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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  • 2008
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    Australia
    Australia

    6.595 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...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Nicole Kidman

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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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Tom Burlinson

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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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  • 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...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Rachel Ward

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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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Tom E. Lewis

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  • 1977
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    The Duellists
    The Duellists

    7.276 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Keith Carradine

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  • 1998
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    Gods and Monsters
    Gods and Monsters

    6.9 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian McKellen

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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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Peter Ustinov

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bradley Byquar

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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.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Nell Campbell

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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.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Jack Thompson

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  • 1983
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    The Return of Captain Invincible
    The Return of Captain Invincible

    5.9 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...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Alan Arkin

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elke Neidhart

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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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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road
    Paradise Road

    6.5 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...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Glenn Close

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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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  • 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.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Mel Gibson

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  • 1977
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    The New Avengers
    The New Avengers

    6.9 1977 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patrick Macnee

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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...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Steve Bisley

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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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  • 1991
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    The Storyteller: Greek Myths
    The Storyteller: Greek Myths

    8.1 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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brian Henson

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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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  • 1994
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    Minder
    Minder

    6.7 1994 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: George Cole

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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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