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John Stanton was born on 28 October 1944, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He attended Brisbane Grammar School for his secondary education. He went on to become a well-known Australian actor. Stanton moved to Melbourne where he became known for playing Shakespearean roles for the Melbourne Theatre Company, as well as for his film and television roles. In addition he had narrated commercials and undertaken voice overs at major events.
Stanton played the major supporting role of Peter Joseph Handcock (to Terence Donovan's leading role of Harry 'Breaker' Morant) in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne on Thursday, 2 February 1978. He has since played a great many other roles on stage including the lead in Macbeth.
Stanton's early television work included a stint in the soap opera Bellbird in 1972, and various guest-starring roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, and acted in miniseries Against the Wind. Despite having made two earlier appearances as different characters in Homicide, Stanton was cast as a regular character, lead detective Pat Kelly, in 1973–74. In his final episode, Pat Kelly engaged in a romance with a woman played by his real-life wife Jill Forster, with whom he previously appeared in an episode of Matlock Police.
Actors: Alan Shearman (miscellaneous crew), Pamela B. Green (miscellaneous crew), Gregory Smith (actor), Anne Lockhart (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Crewson (actress), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Christophe Beck (composer), Frances Conroy (actress), Neil Dickson (miscellaneous crew), James Cosmo (actor), Ian McShane (actor), Christopher Eccleston (actor), Jim Piddock (actor), Jules Sylvester (miscellaneous crew), Andy Stephens (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In the Christmas holiday, the seventh son of a seventh son Will Stanton finds on the day of his fourteenth birthday that he is a powerful warrior capable of traveling in time that must seek and find seven hidden signs to defeat the forces of the Dark and keep the balance with the Light. The Rider tries to lure Will, who is guided by his protectors in his quest.
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, based-on-novel, cat, dog, epic, good-versus-evil, horse, immortality, loose-adaptation, powerActors: Frank Hagney (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Robert Anderson (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Tex Driscoll (actor), Jack Elam (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Peter Graves (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor),
Plot: Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
Keywords: 1870s, ambush, bank, banker, bar-shootout, barfly, bartender, brother-sister-relationship, cattle, cattle-driveActors: Kathleen Harrison (actress), Ralph Ince (director), Ian Dalrymple (writer), Herbert Smith (producer), Nora Swinburne (actress), Charles Paton (actor), Margaret Lockwood (actress), Sebastian Shaw (actor), Eve Gray (actress), Patrick Ludlow (actor), Hartley Power (actor), Philip Strange (actor), Aubrey Fitzgerald (actor), W.E. Holloway (actor), Dick Francis (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Lloyd Bacon (actor), Charles K. French (actor), J.P. Lockney (actor), Ralph McCullough (actor), Charles Ray (actor), Albert Ray (writer), Charles Ray (writer), Charles Ray (director), Harry L. Decker (editor), Ora Carew (actress), Florence Oberle (actress), Rob Wagner (writer), Rob Wagner (writer), Blanche Rose (actress), Arthur S. Kane (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Stephen Stanton falls heir to a smalltown newspaper in the midst of the California citrus groves. The town is bedeviled by the smoke from the smudgepots used to prevent the oranges from freezing, but Stephen uses his ingenuity to solve the problem.
Genres: ,Actors: Thomas H. Ince (miscellaneous crew), Melbourne MacDowell (actor), Robert McKim (actor), Charles Ray (actor), Jane Novak (actress), Victor Schertzinger (director), Henry A. Barrows (actor), Mollie McConnell (actress), R. Cecil Smith (writer), Dorcas Matthews (actress), Ella Stuart Carson (writer),
Plot: John Stanton, the son of munitions magnate Godfrey Stanton, is unfairly labeled a draft-dodger and slacker at the time of America's entry into the First World War. But John sees an opportunity to redeem himself when he discovers German espionage agents attempting to sabotage his father's munitions plant.
Keywords: melodrama, spy, world-war-oneActors: Rosemary Theby (actress), Harry Myers (actor), Rosemary Theby (actress), Harry Myers (writer), Harry Myers (director), Louis Leon Hall (actor), Louis Leon Hall (writer),
Genres: Drama, Short,