David Hannay

Production

David Hannay

Born 1939-06-23 · Wellington, New Zealand

David Hannay (1939-2014) was a New Zealand-Australian film producer. He worked with Greater Union and was an independent producer from 1977. Hannay was married to fellow New Zealander Kathleen Bourke and they had one son before separating. Hannay then met Australian journalist Mary Moody and they had three children together.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Gross Misconduct poster
5.4

Justin Thorne is a liberal arts professor. One of his college students is Jennifer Carter. She seduces Justin, then accuses him of rape. But it turns out that she has an unusual relationship with her father.

Gross Misconduct

1993

Alison's Birthday poster
5.2

During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three years later.

Alison's Birthday

1981

Dead Funny poster
6.0

When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.

Dead Funny

1994

The 13th Floor poster
4.4

As a child, a girl witnesses her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together they set out to expose the crimes of her father.

The 13th Floor

1988

Kadaicha poster
4.0

Teens of Kangaloola High are visited by a skull-faced Aboriginal apparition in their nightmares, and one by one they meet a violent end.

Kadaicha

1988

Death of a Soldier poster
2.8

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.

Death of a Soldier

1986

Cubbyhouse poster
3.8

A mom of three buys a cheap, old house. However, the backyard cubby-house is cursed with pure evil that took the previous owner's two kids and her kids are next.

Cubbyhouse

2001

Out of the Body poster
4.4

An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.

Out of the Body

1988

Comrades poster
6.9

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Comrades

1987

The Shadowed Mind poster
4.7

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.

The Shadowed Mind

1988

The Shadowed Mind poster
4.7

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.

The Shadowed Mind

1988

Hildegarde poster
6.0

Three intrepid siblings try to rescue their precious duck from bird smugglers who want to eat it.

Hildegarde

2001

Early Frost poster
5.3

Private Detective Mike Hayes is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets strange teen David Prentice, who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows, the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?

Early Frost

1982

To Make a Killing poster
6.5

Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life. On the other side of the tracks live Terry (Craig Pearce, co-author of Strictly Ballroom), Felix (John Godden) and Benny (Kelly Dingwall) — who get their kicks out of robbing houses and chasing girls. But they're broke and all out of cash. During a routine burglary the gang discover an innocent Damon. Brushing off the intrusion and pretending they are looking for some mates, the gang flee the scene but bored Damon follows them and joins their group for the day, hoping to find some fun.When the gang picks up two girls, things become unhinged as a drunk Damon brags about some of his family's many affluent friends. Forced to take them to one of his cash-rich contacts, Damon's nightmare has only just begun. As Terry discovers that the wealthy don't always carry cash, what starts as a burglary soon turns into a killing spree.

To Make a Killing

1988

The Sparks Obituary poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sparks Obituary

1978

Solo poster
6.0

When a young Australian hitchhiker, Judy (Peers), enters a prohibited forest area, she encounters Paul (Gil) whose job is spotting fires from a plane. She is invited to stay with him and his teen son, Billy. Later they go on a sightseeing flight in a "Tiger Moth" bi-plane, but having a forced landing, are accommodated by an odd elderly couple.

Solo

1977