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 Colin Friels - Biography - Moviefone
A 1976 graduate of that country's National Institute of Dramatic Art, Friels rapidly found work in all branches of popular entertainment, but was particularly successful in such stage productions as Hamlet, Macbeth and The Man From Muckinpin.
Entering films in 1983, Friels made his international mark as a cheeky misfit in Malcolm (1986), an assignment that won him the Australian Film Institute "Best Actor" award.
Married to actress Judy Davis, Colin Friels has kept busy into the 1990s in films like Class Action (1991) and A Good Man in Africa (1994).
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 Colin Friels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1980 Friels was a presenter on the long-running children's series Play School.
In late 1997 Friels was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and almost died.
Friels is most easily recognized as the megalomaniacal corporate executive in the 1991 feature film Darkman.
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 Colin Friels:
COLIN FRIELS, ACTOR: Some Chinese have a saying that to seek fame is very similar to a pig seeking slaughter.
Colin is acknowledged as one of this country's most versatile actors, in a career that has already spanned nearly 30 years.
COLIN FRIELS, BEING INTERVIEWED: The actor who is unaware of what's going on in the world today, or who chooses to be unaware of what's going on in the world today, is useless – serves no function, I think.
www.abc.net.au /gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1186644.htm   (3791 words)

  
 Friel and easy - Film - www.theage.com.au
The director, Melbourne filmmaker Alkinos Tsilimidos, is sitting next to Friels in the lobby of the Westin Hotel — a world removed, but not by that great a physical distance, from the underworld discovered by Tom White on his Hogarthian progress from suburbia to inner-city bedlam.
Friels, who is in all but a few scenes, was the only actor to see the entire script.
Any signs of the darker side of Friels — the one who has been through, and beaten, a bout of pancreatic cancer and debilitating chemotherapy; the one whose domestic disputes with his wife, actress Judy Davis, resulted in her taking out a six-month apprehended violence order against him — are nowhere to be seen.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/08/14/1092340548581.html   (1592 words)

  
 Colin Friels - the actors' actor
Few bar his close confidants would even have heard of Friels' late-1997 battle with pancreatic cancer, for instance, but for an emotion-strained incident with a bus driver that reached the courts, and thereby the headlines.
There's snow in the air and we hand-rub over hot cuppas as Friels is served lunch, a slump of mashed potato drowning in indeterminate stew.
He's Macbeth in the STC production that opens on Thursday, which means the Scotland-born Friels who migrated in his 11th year to become the archetypal Aussie larrikin is starring some 35 years later in a home-grown version of "the Scottish play".
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 Our man of sorrows - Film - www.smh.com.au
Friels is amiable on the surface, yet he does contempt and wryness gloriously.
When Friels says it, he has such a heaviness and lament to his body, you feel involuntarily stirred to run out and join a protest, to quit your job and join the Smith Family, toss your wallet to the first homeless person you encounter.
Friels has been portrayed as an angry, not-so-young man. He allegedly threatened a bus driver who stopped close behind his vehicle, and his wife Davis took out an AVO against him, which Friels calls "all bullshit, all crap".
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/12/1092102586130.html?from=moreStories   (1435 words)

  
 biography
Colin Friels was born on September 25, 1952, in Scotland.
A 1976 graduate of that country's National Institute of Dramatic Art, Colin rapidly found work in all branches of popular entertainment, but was particularly successful in such stage productions as Hamlet, Macbeth and The Man From Muckinpin.
Colin's most recognized TV role was obviously that of Frank Holloway on the popular Australian cop show Water Rats (1996-1999) for which
www.geocities.com /colinfriels/biography.htm   (234 words)

  
 Lycos Movies - Celebrity - Colin Friels
Handsome, youthful leading man who came to prominence in his native Australia for his portrayal of "Malcolm" (1986), a slow-witted young man with a talent for handling mechanical devices which leads him into a life of crime.
Friels is best known to US audiences for his role in the comic-bookish adventure, "Darkman" (1990).
Most of his subsequent work has been back in his native land, though Friels ventured again into US production with a supporting role in Bruce Beresford's little-seen political comedy, "A Good Man in Africa" (1994).
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 On Stage: Colin Friels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It's been five years since actor Colin Friels was on the stage, but now he's back in a highly-acclaimed production of Macbeth.
A one-time brickie's labourer, Friels was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) despite the fact he'd had no acting experience.
But in typical Friels fashion, he decided not to have a break, and instead took on one of Shakespeare's toughest roles.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/art_profiles/article_629.asp?s=1   (445 words)

  
 Judy Davis takes out violence order against Colin Friels - theage.com.au
Celebrity couple Judy Davis and Colin Friels remain together despite an angry domestic that led to a Sydney court granting an apprehended violence order yesterday.
Friels appeared before Balmain Local Court yesterday but did not dispute the application by Davis, who alleged he smashed a glass table at their Sydney home in inner western Birchgrove on Sunday night.
Friels, best known in recent times for his role in the television police series Water Rats, has agreed not to assault, molest, harass or threaten Davis under the six-month order.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/10/30/1035683474314.html   (326 words)

  
 Australian Television: Water Rats: profiles: colin friels
He sometimes jokes to his partner Rachel Goldstein that he's on the look-out for number three—"Hey Goldie, how about you?" In reality, he's not to happy that Goldie is technically his boss, even though he has far more experience, but he's the only one who's allowed to slag her off.
Colin Friels is one of Australia's best-known actors in both television and film.
Working for a long spell in television is something Colin has never done, but he has no regrets about turning his back on film for a while.
www.australiantelevision.net /water_rats/profiles/friels.html   (681 words)

  
 Probably it happened that Colin Friels has found interesting to read Bibi Magazine . Colin Friels thought Bibi Magazine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Probably it happened that Colin Friels has found interesting to read Bibi Magazine.
Colin Friels thought Bibi Magazine to be something new with innovating ideas.
Compared to Colin Friels everything is likely to appear as something bad.
www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy12031.htm   (363 words)

  
 Audio Book Review: Clancy of the Overflow, read by Colin Friels
On Clancy of the Overflow, well-known award-winning actor Colin Friels reads unabridged versions of 13 of Paterson’s finest poems — including the title poem, Clancy of the Overflow, The Man From Snow River and The Man From Ironbark.
Friels’ voice and delivery are perfect for Paterson’s work, being strong and unashamedly Australian, yet clear and resonant.
This is fine listening for audiences of all ages, from ten to adult, and could be used for classroom situations as well as for private listening.
www.aussiereviews.com /article2051.html   (193 words)

  
 It probably happened that Colin Friels has found interesting to read Evolution . Colin Friels thought Evolution to be ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Colin Friels thought Evolution to be something very interesting.
You saved her life and mine and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward./ Dimitri: Not anymore./Dowager Empress Marie: Why the change of mind?/ Dimitri: It was more a change of heart.
In fact, surrealist thinkers have tried with little success to correlate the essence of Evolution with the essence of Colin Friels.
www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy11815.htm   (316 words)

  
 Tom White (Missing Tom) - Colin Friels, Rachael Blake, Loene Carmen, Alkinos Tsilimidos - CIA
It's just a regular morning for the White family yet in the hustle and bustle of getting off to school and work, little do they know that at day's end life will never be the same again.
After a humiliating day at work and an alcohol-fuelled meltdown in front of his colleagues, Tom White (Colin Friels) stumbles around a darkened city alone, and out of his mind.
This is not an important film but it's interesting to watch Colin Friels become a homeless bum.
thecia.com.au /reviews/t/tom-white.shtml   (285 words)

  
 Colin Friels
After web searching one of my all time favourite actors, I failed to find a fan web site devoted to Colin Friels and his amazing volume of work since graduating from NIDA in 1976.
If you think you will find gossip or information about Colin Friels that is not part of his work in front of a camera or on stage, you have come to the wrong site.
This site is best viewed in Netscape or IE I would sincerely like to thank Colin Friels and his management for allowing this site to become official.
users.mcmedia.com.au /~jayereid/cfpage.htm   (277 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: A Good Man in Africa, Colin Friels, VHS
Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett Jr.
Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians.
Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned to the British High Commission of Ninjana, an African nation slowly divesting itself of colonial rule.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=96898172639   (268 words)

  
 Solo - Morgan O'Neill, Colin Friels, Bojana Novakovic, Vince Colosimo - CIA
Solo - Morgan O'Neill, Colin Friels, Bojana Novakovic, Vince Colosimo - CIA
Jack Barrett (Colin Friels) is the type of guy no one calls Jack.
That doesn't mean that it's bad, it just happens to be (a) depressingly full of despair and (b) written a tad too loosely.
thecia.com.au /reviews/s/solo.shtml   (270 words)

  
 Biography for Colin Friels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lived in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire Scotland until he was approx.
Colin Friels trained at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts).
30 October 2002 - An Australian court ordered Colin to not "assault, harass, or otherwise threaten" his wife, actress Judy Davis, following a domestic disturbance.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0295506/bio   (272 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Ground Zero: Video: Michael Pattinson,Bruce Myles,Colin Friels,Jack Thompson,Donald Pleasence,Natalie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Starring: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson Director: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson MPAA Rating:
Actors: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate, Burnham Burnham, See more
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 Amazon.co.uk: Malcolm [1986]: Video: Colin Friels,Lindy Davies,Chris Haywood,John Hargreaves,Charles 'Bud' ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Amazon.co.uk: Malcolm [1986]: Video: Colin Friels,Lindy Davies,Chris Haywood,John Hargreaves,Charles 'Bud' Tingwell,Beverley Phillips,Judith Stratford,Heather Mitchell,Tony Mahood,David Letch,Mike Bishop,David Johnston,Katerina Tassopoulos,Ian McFadyen,Ian Shrives,Nadia Tass
Actors: Colin Friels, Lindy Davies, Chris Haywood, John Hargreaves, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Award-winning Australian movie full of visual jokes and unusual mechanical inventions, revolving around an emotionally and socially under-developed genius who creates an amazing getaway car to embark on the world's most incredible bank robbery.
www.amazon.co.uk /Malcolm-Colin-Friels/dp/B00004CJHS   (410 words)

  
 Overview of Colin Friels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Born in Glasgow and brought up for a time in Kilbirnie (North Ayrshire), Friels emigrated for Australia with his family as a teenager.
He trained at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1976.
He began his career on the stage but went on to have success on film, including Malcolm (1986), which won Friels an Australian Film Institute Best Actor award, Class Action (1991), A Good Man in Africa (1994), with Sean Connery (b.
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 A Good Man in Africa - 1994 - Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett Jr., John Lithgow, Diana ...
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 Man Who Sued God - Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels
They employ the legendary Machiavellian lawyer, Gerry Ryan (Bille Brown), an old friend of the Cardinal.
Ryan enlists the support of the financial and media establishment, and entices Steve’s jealous and ambitious brother, David (Colin Friels), to the cause.
As the media storm blows in and Steve becomes aware of the earth-shaking consequences of his actions, his resolve begins to flag.
www.phase9.tv /movies/manwhosuedgod.shtml   (523 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Mr Reliable [1996]: Video: Colin Friels,Jacqueline McKenzie,Ken Radley,Graham Rouse,Elaine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Amazon.co.uk: Mr Reliable [1996]: Video: Colin Friels,Jacqueline McKenzie,Ken Radley,Graham Rouse,Elaine Cusick,Jonathan Hardy,Errol O'Neill,Susie Porter,Rhys Kenny,Richard Kenny,Benjamin Kenny,Gerry Skilton,Terry Annesley,Anthony Simcoe,John Batchelor,Nadia Tass
Actors: Colin Friels, Jacqueline McKenzie, Ken Radley, Graham Rouse, Elaine Cusick
A fact based drama dealing with the eight day siege which took place in Australia in 1968.
www.amazon.co.uk /Mr-Reliable-Colin-Friels/dp/B00004RTXW   (121 words)

  
 Colin Friels | Filmography | MTV Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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