Acting

Lou Vernon

Born 1888-06-26 · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Acting credits

On the Beach poster
6.7

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

On the Beach

1959

No artwork available
7.0

Famous Hollywood director Robert Grimble arrives in the antipodes to make an epic flick about pioneering women, and launches a quest to find a girl with "that certain something" for the main role.

That Certain Something

1941

The Shiralee poster
5.1

An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.

The Shiralee

1957

You Can't See 'round Corners poster
NR

Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt with SP bookies at the local pub. This film, shot at Kapooka camp, contains one of the only depictions in Australian cinema of soldiers training for Vietnam.

You Can't See 'round Corners

1969

No artwork available
9.0

The Power and the Glory is a 1941 Australian war film about a Czech scientist who escapes from the Nazis to live in Australia.

The Power and the Glory

1941