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Judy Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
Davis first came to attention for her role as the fiery Sybylla Melvyn in the 1979 film My Brilliant Career. She has won many acting awards, including two Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards, one BAFTA and seven AFI Awards. She has also been nominated twice for an Academy Award.
Davis was born in Perth and had a strict Catholic upbringing. She was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology, and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984. They have two children.
First coming to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer, she also played the lead in such Australian New Wave classics as Winter of Our Dreams (1981) (as the waif-like heroin addict) and Heatwave (1982) (as the radical tenant organizer).
Actors: Haim Saban (producer), Jules Stewart (miscellaneous crew), George S. Clinton (composer), Dean Norris (actor), Bundy Chanock (miscellaneous crew), Ralph B. Meyer (miscellaneous crew), Edgar J. Scherick (producer), Barry Shabaka Henley (actor), Richard Schiff (actor), Arliss Howard (actor), Ashley Judd (actress), Pruitt Taylor Vince (actor), Treat Williams (actor), Michael D. Ornstein (editor), Louis Giambalvo (actor),
Plot: This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, murderActors: Les Millbrook (editor), Al Ferguson (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Gary Gray (actor), Don Haggerty (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Tim Holt (actor), Paul Hurst (actor), Richard Martin (actor), Monte Montague (actor), Robert Bray (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Robert Warwick (actor), Martha Hyer (actress), Herman Schlom (producer),
Plot: Young Danny leads an Army detail into a trap enabling his brother Steve and his gang to capture their load of gattling guns. Tim and Chito capture the brothers but don't find the guns. Tim takes over care of the boy hoping he will lead a new life and tell where the guns are located. Just when is appears to be working, Tim learns Danny has helped his brother escape.
Keywords: smuggling, spankingActors: William Haade (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Hal Craig (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), James Flavin (actor), Dick French (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Lew Harvey (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Robert Allen (actor), Fred Kohler Jr. (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Allen Fox (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Gene Lockhart (actor),
Plot: The first of a proposed series called The Big Town Girls finds big-town girls Judy Davis ('June Lang (I)' (qv)) and Terry Wilson ('Lynn Bari' (qv))stranded in Hawaii after losing their jobs in a local night club. Then Terry loses all their money in a game of chance. They meet and are dined by Maurice Leon ('Erik Rhodes (I)' (qv)) who tells them he is a famous jewel thief and attempts to enlist their aid in stealing the famous "Ka-meha-mega" diamond from Homer Watson ('Gene Lockhart' (qv))who is sailing the next day on the "Maori." They refuse but board the ship on the chance of finding something to eat at some passenger's "bon-voyage" party. THey get more to drink than eat, with the result the ship sails with them still on board. When discovered, the ship's captain ('Harlan Briggs' (qv))puts them to work---Judy as a chambermaid and Terry as a manicurist. The girls see Maurice steal the diamond from Watson's cabin and tell the captain. Then the complications begin, with Judy and Terry being accused of the theft.
Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, big-town-girl, bon-voyage-party, bribery, california, chambermaid, cheating-wife, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes