Graeme Blundell
Birthday: Born in 1945-07-08 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Graeme Blundell (born 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer. Blundell was born in Melbourne; he grew up in Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at University High School and the University of Melbourne. In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play Dimboola at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of Homicide (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 70's sex-comedy film Alvin Purple. He has written extensively in The Australian newspaper as well as writing biographies of Brett Whiteley (Brett Whiteley: An Unauthorised Life, 1996, with his then wife Margot Hilton), and Graham Kennedy (King, 2003). Description above from the Wikipedia article Graeme Blundell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
East West 101
Character: Shock Jock
Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney....
Underbelly
Character: Jack Lang
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events....
Through My Eyes
Character: Rex Kuchel
The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby...
Laid
Character: Graham McVie
Roo McVie is placed in an uncomfortable situation when her former lovers start dying in strange circumstances. With her best friend EJ, Roo sets out to find a pattern and stop any more deaths....
Screen
Character: Host
Australia’s favourite film critic Margaret Pomeranz alongside actor and writer Graeme Blundell. This widely respected duo will continue to do what they do best; critique cinema releases and premium TV dramas as well as interview the who’s who of screen talent from in front of and behind the camera....
The Hollowmen
Character: Geoff
The Hollowmen is set in the offices of the Central Policy Unit, a special think tank personally set up by the Prime Minister to help him in the most important job of all - getting re-elected. Their brief is "long term vision"; to stop worrying about tomorrow's headlines, and focus on next week's....
Police Rescue
Character: Coleman
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....
Homicide
Character: Bank Customer (uncredited)
Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases....
Rafferty's Rules
Character: Bill Wiley
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 programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead...
Shock Horror Aunty
Character: Self
Direct from ABC TV's complaints desk, this special shines the spotlight on some of Aunty's edgiest and cheekiest moments. Programs causing outrage amongst viewers, the media or ABC TV management over the last few decades....
Water Under the Bridge
Character: Ralph
Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott....
Movie Credits
Idiot Box
Character: Detective Eric
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it....
Alvin Purple
Character: Alvin Purple
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead....
Alvin Rides Again
Character: Alvin Purple / Balls McGee
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster....
Don's Party
Character: Simon
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....
The Year My Voice Broke
Character: Nils Olson
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....
Stork
Character: Westy
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes...
Pacific Banana
Character: Martin
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands....
The Naked Bunyip
Character: Graeme
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians....
Weekend of Shadows
Character: Bernie
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him....
In Her Skin
Character: Ivan
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing....
Those Dear Departed
Character: Dr. Howie
A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits....
Brake Fluid
Character:
This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences....
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Character: Ruwee Naberrie
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power – and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side....
Australian Dream
Character: Geoffrey Stubbs
Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives....
The Odd Angry Shot
Character: Dawson
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 camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obs...
The Best of Friends
Character: Tom
The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant....
Mad Dog Morgan
Character: Italian Jack
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s....
Melvin, Son of Alvin
Character: Alvin Purple
A shy young man is irresistible to women....
Not Quite Hollywood
Character: Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves....
Vietnam
Character: Miles
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War....
Midnite Spares
Character: Sidebottom
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver....
Doctors & Nurses
Character: Mr X
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments....
The Distant Home
Character: Dr. Chambers
Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car....
Joh's Jury
Character: Nicholas Cowdery
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen....