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Colin Friels (born 25 September 1952) is a Scottish-born Australian actor.
Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a mill worker and his father a joiner. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. He worked as a bricklayer's labourer before studying at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and graduated from there in 1976, with actors such as Linden Wilkinson and Michael Siberry.
Friels career began with work mostly in theatre and television. In 1980 Friels was a presenter on the long-running children's series Play School. His first film role was in the unreleased Prisoners (1981), starring with Tatum O'Neal. The film was allegedly so bad that Tatum's father Ryan O'Neal purchased the rights to the film to prevent it from ever screening.[citation needed] His first actual appearance in film was in Monkey Grip (1982), an adaptation of a novel by Helen Garner, where he starred alongside Noni Hazlehurst.
Actors: Francesco Cabras (actor), Franco Trevisi (actor), Enzo G. Castellari (actor), Alessandro Parrello (writer), Alessandro Parrello (actor), Alessandro Parrello (producer), Igor Maltagliati (writer), Ada Perotti (actress), Laura Baldi (actress), Emiliano Ferrera (director), Emiliano Ferrera (writer), Cinzia Dell'Omo (costume designer), Giampaolo Duranti (producer),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western,Actors: Kent Hamilton (miscellaneous crew), Jim Klein (editor), Carolyn McCormick (actress), Trevor Hollen (miscellaneous crew), David Darlow (actor), Rohn Thomas (actor), Rob Riley (actor), Scott Bowers (miscellaneous crew), John Woodruff (actor), Douglas Thornton (composer), Kevin R. Kelly (actor), Emily Hart (miscellaneous crew), John Mays (miscellaneous crew), John Mays (producer), Patrick Steele (director),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Nick Stellate (actor), Bruce Spielbauer (actor), Wesley Snipes (actor), Wesley Snipes (actor), Wesley Snipes (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), Robert Downey Jr. (actor), Kevin Mukherji (actor), Robert Minkoff (actor), Joe Pantoliano (actor), Daniel Roebuck (actor), Patrick Malahide (actor), Kate Nelligan (actress), Irène Jacob (actress),
Plot: When a prisoner transport plane carrying Deputy Sam Gerard as an escort crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan helps him rescue some trapped prisoners and then escapes himself. Gerard and his crack team of U.S. Marshals start their pursuit, but the simple fugitive situation soon gets more complicated when Gerard learns that Sheridan is no mere criminal and the story behind his incrimination becomes more and more suspicious. At the same time, Mark Sheridan is out to find out the truth himself while keeping one step ahead of Gerard
Keywords: accident, action-hero, african-american, airbag, airliner, airplane-accident, airport, ambulance, ambush, artistActors: Jerry Wasserman (actor), Dabney Coleman (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Alvin Sanders (actor), Sam Malkin (actor), Joe Pantoliano (actor), Michael Stevens (actor), Barry Corbin (actor), Jay Brazeau (actor), Paul Jarrett (actor), Kevin McNulty (actor), Matt Frewer (actor), Xander Berkeley (actor), Brenda Crichlow (actress), Gillian Barber (actress),
Plot: Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.
Keywords: bravery, bus, car-chase, chase, convertible, explosion, father-son-relationship, foot-chase, gangster, heistActors: Albert T. Dickerson III (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Veluzat (miscellaneous crew), Chuck Cirino (composer), Jim Wynorski (director), Robert Culp (actor), Jim Wynorski (writer), Roger Corman (producer), Jim Wynorski (actor), Jim Wynorski (actor), Angie Dickinson (actress), Bruce Glover (actor), Arthur Roberts (actor), Charles Cyphers (actor), Vicki Graef (costume designer), Julie McCullough (actress),
Plot: It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a story about them. After a time the evil land baron wants to run for governor, and Angie and her daughters kidnap his son and turn him into a gangster in order to discredit his father and his run for governor.
Keywords: 1930s, bank-robbery, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, blonde, brawl, car-chase, catfight, cult-directorActors: Ivan Rassimov (actor), Bruno Arié (actor), Bruno Arié (miscellaneous crew), Fortunato Arena (actor), Ivan Rassimov (actor), Franco Ukmar (actor), Mimmo Poli (actor), Consalvo Dell'Arti (actor), Tom Felleghy (actor), Riccardo Garrone (actor), Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor), Valentino Macchi (actor), John Bartha (actor), Aldo Cecconi (actor), Sergio Garrone (director),
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Western,Actors: Wolfgang Glück (director), Attila Hörbiger (actor), Bruno Hübner (actor), Hans Olden (actor), Hans Thimig (actor), Christiane Hörbiger (actress), Carl Bosse (actor), Friedl Czepa (actress), Fritz Hochwälder (writer), Franz Messner (actor), Hildegard Sochor (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Roger Corman (producer), Michael Forest (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Ronald Sinclair (editor), Roger Corman (director), Albert Glasser (composer), James H. Nicholson (producer), Samuel Z. Arkoff (producer), Jonathan Haze (actor), Richard Devon (actor), Lynette Bernay (actress), Betsy Jones-Moreland (actress), Gary Conway (actor), Abby Dalton (actress), Susan Cabot (actress),
Plot: A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarians that also hold their men captive. There is a cameo appearance by the sea serpent.
Keywords: anachronism, b-movie, barbarian, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, capture, cave, engineering-project, epic, escapeActors: Russ Clark (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), George Anderson (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Al Bridge (actor), James Burke (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Jack Clifford (actor),
Plot: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Keywords: bag-of-gold, battle, california, dam, dam-busting, dance-hall, dance-hall-singer, deserter, election, evil-landownerActors: Ray Bennett (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), John L. Cason (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Tommy Coats (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Frank LaRue (actor), Hugh Prosser (actor), Mark Roberts (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Ed Earl Repp (writer), Paul Borofsky (editor),
Plot: Steve Bolton, a Department of the Interior agent, has given young "Bronc" Masters a lease to 50,000 acres of range land. Several months later "Bronc" discovers a strange notice on the land, warning off trespassers. He thinks that Steve has leased the same land twice, grabs a gun and heads for town, although his level-headed girl friend, Ann Bradford, attempts to stop him. Steve pacifies him, and they both ride out to the range and discover a gang of men, led by "Spud" Henry, rounding up the wild horses. Henry produces a paper, similar to the one Steve gave "Bronc" and signed by the Secretary of the Interior, and Steve, knowing the paper is a forgery, slaps an injunction on the land, forbidding any horses to be rounded up until the matter is cleared. Henry has had a cleaver counterfeiter forge the signature and knows he will be found out, so he orders his men to rustle the horses and run them to the railroad siding for shipment. But the Durango Kid takes a hand.
Keywords: agent, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, bandleader, buffoon, cigarette-smoking, crook, dispute, document