Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson (11 April 1924 - 24 October 2005) was an Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host. Wilson joined the Australian Army in 1943, to escape the wartime Manpower Directorite and being placed in a "useful" job, becoming a signalman in the 7th Division, 2nd AIF. Served in Papua New Guinea and Borneo, being discharged in late 1945. He started acting in 1948, acting up to his death in 2005.

  • Title: Frank Wilson
  • Popularity: 4.586
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1924-04-11
  • Place of Birth: Northcote, Victoria, Australia
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Frank Wilson Movies

  • 1974
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    Alvin Rides Again
    Alvin Rides Again

    4.9 1974 HD

    Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Graeme Blundell

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  • 1980
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    Breaker Morant
    Breaker Morant

    7.1 1980 HD

    During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward Woodward

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  • 1991
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    Black Robe
    Black Robe

    6.537 1991 HD

    Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians,...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Lothaire Bluteau

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  • 1978
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    Money Movers
    Money Movers

    6.2 1978 HD

    A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Terence Donovan

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  • 2002
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    Crackerjack
    Crackerjack

    6.8 2002 HD

    When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mick Molloy

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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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  • 1988
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    Empire of Ash
    Empire of Ash

    2.9 1988 HD

    In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Melanie Kilgour

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  • 1959
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    Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
    Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    6.3 1959 HD

    Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ernest Borgnine

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  • 1939
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    Moon Over Harlem
    Moon Over Harlem

    4.2 1939 HD

    Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Buddy Harris

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  • 1986
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    News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future
    News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future

    1 1986 HD

    The wife of a reporter, who turned up missing while investigating reports of illegal toxic dumping, teams up with a photographer to find her husband.

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    Cast: Birgit Doll

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  • 1923
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    The Clue of the Pigtail
    The Clue of the Pigtail

    3 1923 HD

    Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Call of Siva
    The Call of Siva

    8 1923 HD

    Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Cry of the Nighthawk
    The Cry of the Nighthawk

    5 1923 HD

    n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Fiery Hand
    The Fiery Hand

    5 1923 HD

    In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Fungi Cellars
    The Fungi Cellars

    5 1923 HD

    Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Man with the Limp
    The Man with the Limp

    7 1923 HD

    This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Miracle
    The Miracle

    1 1923 HD

    Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Knocking on the Door
    The Knocking on the Door

    1 1923 HD

    The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Queen of Hearts
    The Queen of Hearts

    3 1923 HD

    Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Silver Buddha
    The Silver Buddha

    1 1923 HD

    Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1923
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    The Sacred Order
    The Sacred Order

    5 1923 HD

    When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: H. Agar Lyons

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  • 1988
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    The Riddle of the Stinson
    The Riddle of the Stinson

    6.8 1988 HD

    A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jack Thompson

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  • 1991
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    Ultimate Desires
    Ultimate Desires

    2.8 1991 HD

    Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Tracy Scoggins

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  • 1997
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    The Well
    The Well

    5.2 1997 HD

    Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pamela Rabe

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  • 1987
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    Going Sane
    Going Sane

    1 1987 HD

    A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.

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    Cast: John Waters

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  • 1980
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    Fatty Finn
    Fatty Finn

    6.5 1980 HD

    The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Ben Oxenbould

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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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  • 2001
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    Changi
    Changi

    6 2001 HD

    Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Matthew Newton

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  • 1957
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    Robert Montgomery Presents
    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 1957 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Montgomery

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  • 1976
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    Power Without Glory
    Power Without Glory

    5 1976 HD

    Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Martin Vaughan

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  • 1978
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    The Truckies
    The Truckies

    1 1978 HD

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    Cast: John Ewart

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  • 1979
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    Doctor Down Under
    Doctor Down Under

    1 1979 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robin Nedwell

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  • 1983
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    Scales of Justice
    Scales of Justice

    1 1983 HD

    Scales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael Jenkins. It was one of the most controversial...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bill Hunter

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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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  • 1986
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    The Great Bookie Robbery
    The Great Bookie Robbery

    7 1986 HD

    On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Bach

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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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