Harold Hopkins
Birthday: Born in 1944-03-06 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Deathday: 2011-12-11
Harold Douglas Hopkins (6 March 1944 – 11 December 2011) was an Australian film and television actor.
TV Credits
The Secret Life of Us
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The Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama series about the lives of 20-30 somethings living in the early 2000s....
McLeod's Daughters
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When Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited....
Blue Heelers
Character: Geoff Lovett
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops....
The Lost Islands
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The Lost Islands is an Australian television series. It first aired in Australia on 1 January 1976, and was later screened around the world, including the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, as well as Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United States....
BeastMaster
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BeastMaster is a Canadian television series that aired from 1999 to 2002. It was loosely based on a 1982 MGM film The Beastmaster. The series aired for three complete seasons. It is produced by Coote/Hayes Productions. The series was nominated for the Open Craft Award in the category of cinematography by the Australian Film Institute in 2000, and for the Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, USA, in 2001. BeastMast...
The True Believers
Character: Edgar Ross
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during ...
Underbelly
Character: Jim Bazley
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events....
Water Rats
Character: Union Representative
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001....
Brides of Christ
Character: Ken Maloney
Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach...
White Collar Blue
Character: Bruce
White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003. Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and professional tensions affecting their work and lives. In the pilot episode, Harriet is introduced as the new face to Kingsway station, transferring from the "White Collar" federal police to the "Blue C...
Riptide
Character: Harry
Riptide is an Australian adventure television...
Underbelly
Character: George Joseph
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events....
Moby Dick
Character: Captain Peleg
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick....
Police Rescue
Character: Narc Cop (Tony)
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes....
Police Rescue
Character: Fuller
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes....
Barrier Reef
Character: Steve Gabo
Barrier Reef was an Australian television series that was first screened in 1971. Barrier Reef centred around a group of marine biologists on board a ship called the New Endeavour, researching around the Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, Australia. "It was the first series in the world to feature extensive colour underwater filming on location". It was also a unique location for a TV show. The Great Barrier Reef is "The only living organic collective visible from Earth's orbit."...
Police Rescue
Character: Colley
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes....
Sara Dane
Character: Andrew Maclay
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit....
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Tim Grant
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales....
Big Sky
Character: Minister
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 centred on the adventures of the pilots of a small aviation company in Australia called "Big Sky Aviation" and the battles of the owner to keep the company running. Chief pilot Chris Manning is determined to look after his team, even if that conflicts with the new boss, Lauren Allen, who has inherited the company following the death of her father....
Wildside
Character: Lionel
Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999. The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes. The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several L...
Grass Roots
Character: Surf Club Manager
Grass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003. The series is set around the fictional Arcadia Waters Council near Sydney, and was primarily a satirical look at the machinations of local government. It was written by Geoffrey Atherden. Part of the series was filmed in the inner west Sydney suburb of Concord. Many external shots of Arcadia waters Council chambers used Concord Council Chambers as a setting and as was other...
All Saints
Character: Frank Miller
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 Department at All Saints Hospital....
Movie Credits
The Picture Show Man
Character: Larry
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies...
Blackrock
Character: Principal
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 gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl...
Gallipoli
Character: Les McCann
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead....
The Year My Voice Broke
Character: Tom Alcock
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved....
Monkey Grip
Character: Willie
Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life....
Joey
Character: Kanga Catcher
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. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task....
Buddies
Character: Johnny
Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly...
Demonstrator
Character: Malcolm
The story of a university student who leads a protest against an Asian security conference in Canberra which has been organised by his father the Australian Defence Minister. His life and his demonstration become disrupted....
Children of the Revolution
Character: Police Commissioner
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951....
The Winds of Jarrah
Character: Jack Farrell
Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle....
No Worries
Character: John Burke
A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney....
Resistance
Character: Peach
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement....
The Legend of Fred Paterson
Character: Fred Paterson
The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any Australian parliament....
Courts mais Gay : Tome 5
Character: Dan
A collection of gay short films. The 7 short films are: Next Door Man [Ο άνδρας της διπλανής πόρτας...] (2001); Saturn's Return (2001); Love, Always... [Amour, Toujours...] (1995); Dream Kitchen (1999); Far West (2003); The Whiz Kids [Freunde] (2001); W (2003)....
The Clinic
Character: Grave Digger
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?...
Never Tell Me Never
Character: Neville
This is the true story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again....
Our Lips Are Sealed
Character: Shelby Shaw
Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this Down Under adventure filled with nonstop Aussie intrigue, laughs and romance. After running afoul of a notorious gangster, Mary-Kate and Ashley take refuge in the FBI Witness Protection Program. Unfortunately, the girls are uncontrollable blabbermouths and they blow their cover in town after town until there's only one hiding place left - Australia....
Saturn's Return
Character: Dan
Two young man in love, Barney and Dimi, are on a trip to visit Dan, Barney's dying father. Dan is planning his suicide and wants Barney there....
The Club
Character: Danny Rowe
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 immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career....
Age of Consent
Character: Ted Farrell
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl....
The Highest Honour
Character: Corporal C.M. Stewart
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results....
Bloodlock
Character: Peter
A young man in trouble is forced to drag his family into the problem....
Billy and Percy
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Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries....
Fantasy Man
Character: Nick Bailey
A man approaching a midlife crisis has a fantasy affair with a waitress....
Don's Party
Character: Cooley
On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life....
Big ideas
Character: Sam Stevens
Selling compost brings a boy inventor (Justin Rosniak) and his widowed mother (Gosia Dobrowolska) into conflict with their neighbor....
Joh's Jury
Character: Geoffrey Woodward
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen....