Phillip Hinton

Acting

Phillip Hinton

Born 1942-03-19 · Brighton, England

Phillip Hinton (1942-2021) was a noted actor and voice artist working in Australia (although English-born and South African-raised) who supplied the voice of Teurac in three episodes of Farscape. Around the age of 18, Hinton entered the acting profession (having had previous experience on the South African stage) and joined London's The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963. In addition to his stage work, he performed on such British TV series as Z Cars. In 1975, Hinton moved to Australia, establishing himself as a radio actor and as part of the vocal stock company used by animation studio Air Programs International (and its successor, Burbank Films). Hinton lent his precise diction to animated adaptations of Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn), Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations), Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, as well as Christmas specials like The Story of the First Christmas and The Little Drummer Boy. As an on-camera actor, Hinton has appeared in a variety of Australian movie and television projects, such as the comedy film Clowning Around, and US/Aussie TV co-productions, including the mini-series The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, an episode of the 1980s Mission: Impossible revival, and TV movies such as The Three Stooges and Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure (as ABCchairman Leonard Goldenson).

Acting credits

Wish You Were Here poster
5.6

Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?

Wish You Were Here

2012

Heart of Fire poster
6.5

While fighting a petrol tanker blaze, troubled firefighter Max Tucker discovers a young girl trapped under its wheels and finds that it is up to him to save her.

Heart of Fire

1997

Manganinnie poster
6.4

Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Manganinnie

1980

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame poster
3.3

This is an adaptation of the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo, produced by Burbank Films Australia.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

1986

No Room to Run poster
6.5

Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When the man is killed in the airport, Loomis ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life with the help of Terry McKenna, a woman from Austin working for the Sydney Opera House.

No Room to Run

1977

Irresistible Force poster
5.4

A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.

Irresistible Force

1993

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer poster
8.0

In the 1840s, two boys get mixed up with an Indian accused of stealing money and rescue a pretty girl who is trapped in a cave.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1986

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years poster
6.9

At the height of WWII and ten years after their union in Matlock Island, Father Ralph reunites with Meggie who faces a deep crisis. Now, he must make up his mind, as the burden of choice is insufferable. Will he risk it all for love?

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

1996

Peter Pan poster
6.3

This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Determined never to become an adult, Peter stays forever young in a magical word called Neverland, where he leads a band of mischevious kids called the Lost Boys. Unfortunately, Neverland's chief other inhabitant is a pirate named Captain Hook, who would like nothing more than to put a permanent end to Peter's fun.

Peter Pan

1988

David Copperfield poster
5.2

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

David Copperfield

1983

Treasure Island poster
7.0

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Treasure Island

1987

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? poster
6.3

In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?

1993

Alice in Wonderland poster
5.5

It's a whimsical romp through Wonderland when Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds herself in a strange land filled with a fabulous menagerie of curious characters.

Alice in Wonderland

1988

The Three Musketeers poster
6.4

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

The Three Musketeers

1986

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster
5.5

This is a animated adaptation of the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1986

Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse poster
6.6

Holmes & Watson investigate a cursed family.

Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse

1983

Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story poster
6.5

Three people, including a pregnant woman, embark on a yachting excursion during a hurricane.

Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story

1993

The Black Tulip poster
10.0

Alexander Dumas' classic tale set in 1800s Holland is brought to the screen in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. Watch as Cornelius sets out to grow a black tulip to with the 100,000 guilder prize.

The Black Tulip

1988

Prince of the Nile: The Story of Moses poster
9.0

Moses, a Hebrew baby, is found amongst the bulrushes by the Pharaoh's daughter. Aaron, Moses stepbrother, resents Moses who grows up the more sensible and likeable of the two and who was always the favourite of their grandfather, the Pharaoh. When Moses is given the task of leading his people to the promised land by his God, he creates havoc and brings plagues on the Pharaoh and the Egyptians who try to thwart his progress.

Prince of the Nile: The Story of Moses

2001

Off on a Comet poster
4.0

A Russian count and a French captain and his corporal survey the Algerian coast. Suddenly they are swept up in a mysterious storm. Afterwards, their world is unfamiliar, but they find a science professor who leads them into a new adventure.

Off on a Comet

1976

A Christmas Carol poster
7.1

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

A Christmas Carol

1982

The First Christmas poster
NR

A wonderful animated version of the First Christmas. Filled with prophets, wise men, warriors, kings and messengers.

The First Christmas

1979

Prisoner of Zenda poster
6.0

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

Prisoner of Zenda

1988

Rob Roy poster
6.0

The tale of Scottish legend Rob Roy MacGregor is retold in beautiful animation. Rob Roy borrows money from the local nobility to buy cattle to increase his status in life. When the money is stolen, he must use the fighting skills he's tried to avoid in order to escape the powerful men who believe he stole the money. Rob Roy begins by fighting for his own survival, as well as his family's, but pretty soon he is fighting for the people of Scotland. Heroism, courage, and sacrifice are at the center of this stirring tale. Rob Roy is a worthy addition to any film library.

Rob Roy

1987