Arthur Dignam
Know for: Acting
Born: 1939-09-09
Place of birth: Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century....
The Devil's Playground (1976)
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid...
Strange Behavior (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments...
We of the Never Never (1982)
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...
Summer of Secrets (1976)
A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.
Comrades (1987)
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...
Jock Petersen (1974)
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives...
Burke & Wills (1985)
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
The Right Hand Man (1987)
A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.
The Wild Duck (1984)
Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
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...
Those Dear Departed (1987)
A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.
The Dreaming (1988)
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,...
The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
The Everlasting Secret Family (1988)
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...
Australia (2008)
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...
Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)
The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her...
Libido (1973)
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal...
Paradise Road (1997)
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...
Dating the Enemy (1996)
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their...
The Hero (1979)
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.
King Solomon's Mines (1986)
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...
Shadow of the Cobra (1989)
Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
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...
The Duellists (1977)
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...
Gods and Monsters (1998)
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...
Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)
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...
Warm Strangers (1997)
A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.