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Any Australian actors in the production?

posted 12 years ago by CooperCamden
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Even in small roles? The 2000 TV remake featured Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward.

[–] jaystarstar 12 years ago

I think some of the naval crew members were played by Australians.

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[–] CooperCamden 12 years ago

I suppose that in 1959 Australian actors were largely unknown by American audiences, with the exceptions of Rod Taylor and Errol Flynn, and few thought of Flynn as an Aussie, anyway.

[–] gary_overman 12 years ago

<Even in small roles? The 2000 TV remake featured Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward.>

John Meillon was in it and I believe that he was an Aussie.

[–] CooperCamden 12 years ago

Yes, he appeared in Wake In Fright, which I saw recently for the first time.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

John Meillon was in it and I believe that he was an Aussie.

He was the Sawfish crewman Ralph Swain (who swam ashore in San Francisco). Many may remember him as Crocodile Dundee's Australian manager/agent in the movies. He was also the father who lost the plot in Walkabout.🐭

[–] puirt-a-beul 9 years ago

John Meillon was in it and I believe that he was an Aussie.

Yes, but ionically he was playing an American. 

The Australian naval commander and his female PA were both Australians, as were other small roles like the two old codgers in the club complaining about the wine committee.

I know it was done for marketing purposes, but casting Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins and Fred Astaire as Aussies strained credibility somewhat.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

[–] morgana-31 12 years ago

Antonia Murphy, Lynne from the Aussie soap, Sons and Daughters, was in an early scene of the 2000 remake as a dinner guest.

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[–] lenlarga 11 years ago

The actress who played Hosgood I think is an Aussie. She appears to have starred in mostly Australian productions, so I assume she is from there.

[–] Cosmonican 10 years ago

When Moira marches up to the boat, one of the supposedly American sailors says "Get a load of the Charley Weeller" in a distinct Aussie accent.

[–] gary_overman 10 years ago

Has anyone else seen the superb 1986 film Death of a Soldier? It was filmed Down Under and one of the American officers aboard the sub looks like the president of the court-martial (law officer) in DOAS.

I looked it up and the actor in DOAS is Australian actor Brian Adams, but I don't see him in the cast list for OTB, nor is OTB in Adams' filmography. I don't think that he had a speaking role in OTB, but it certainly looks like the same man in both films.