Vincent Gil

Acting

Vincent Gil

Born 1939-01-01 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Vincent Gil (1939 – 22 August 2022) was an Australian film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Nightrider in the 1979 film Mad Max, and Stone. Gil had also starred in many Australian television shows such as Matlock Police, Neighbours, A Country Practice and Prisoner.

Acting credits

Mad Max poster
6.7

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

Mad Max

1979

Three Thousand Years of Longing poster
6.9

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

Evil Angels poster
6.8

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Evil Angels

1988

No artwork available
10.0

A wacky comedy set inside a chaotic TV station which screens only crazy, bad-taste programs.

Channel Chaos

1984

No artwork available
10.0

Vasu and Chacko are working as drivers and low ranking workers for the Abkari contractor Sreekandan. Sreekandan is heavily involved in the smuggling of liquor from the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu in order to increase the already high profits in his business. For some time the jobless youngsters try illegal brewing of hooch.

Abkari

1988

Stone poster
6.0

After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.

Stone

1974

No artwork available
NR

A love story about angry youth, sex, drugs and rock n' roll.

Solvent

2004

Body Melt poster
5.1

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

Body Melt

1994

Resistance poster
6.0

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.

Resistance

1992

Incident at Raven's Gate poster
6.2

Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to appear, and people who had been "normal" suddenly going insane.

Incident at Raven's Gate

1989

The Bank poster
5.7

The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?

The Bank

2001

Shark's Paradise poster
8.0

A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off the sharks is $2 million. Our heroes do everything from escaping jail to risking death in a chemical factory, to stop him.

Shark's Paradise

1986

Snapshot poster
5.5

A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.

Snapshot

1979

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead poster
5.8

The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalized until they erupt in violence.

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

1988

Mallboy poster
5.3

A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in a run-down suburb of Melbourne. His father Sam (Brett Swain) is in prison, while his mother Jenny (Nell Feeney) is too lost in her problems with alcohol to provide much guidance for her children. Left to his own devices, Shaun commits petty theft, smokes pot, and deals drugs to his friends as they hang out at the nearby shopping mall. Shaun seems unable to reach out to anyone, not even his girlfriend (Lauren Hawker) or Darren (Brett Tucker), a social worker eager to help him. When his father is released from prison and brings his mistress to the "Welcome Home" party Jenny throws for him, Shaun comes to realize that if he is ever to resolve his problems, he will have to do it without the help of his family. Mallboy marked the feature film debut for writer/director Vincent Giarrusso.

Mallboy

2001

Razor Eaters poster
6.0

The front row ticket to an anarchistic rampage of death and destruction. First turned on during a home invasion, the gang's video camera never lets up as they take on the city and become our anti-heros by targeting all those we'd love to see get punished - corrupt politicians, filthy drug dealers, arrogant sports stars... and parking inspectors! Now they're wanted for murder, kidnapping, arson, assault, armed robbery, burglary... And they've got it all on video.

Razor Eaters

2003

Encounters poster
6.0

Madaline is troubled by the recurring visions of her past. The comfort of her envious life and social position are not enough to shake the haunting memories of her brother’s accidental death that Madaline blames on herself. Nightmares haunt her with images of her brother and also begin to blur with reality. Madaline’s frail state of mind has her believing that her brother has returned to kill her. Her husband disappears and a stranger from Madaline’s past threatens her life. Suspense builds and the truth is revealed in the chilling climax – Madaline’s life will never be the same again. Returning to the home where she was raised, Madaline fights to come to grips with why she was blamed for her family's death.

Encounters

1993

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
NR

The true story of a Sydney prostitute and her lesbian relationships and the unusual desire of one of her regular male customers.

And/Or = One

1982

Adiyozhukkukal poster
6.8

After Karunan comes out of jail, he discovers that his girlfriend has married Kumaran, the man who sent him to prison. Karunan decides to work hard and take revenge against Kumaran.

Adiyozhukkukal

1984

Magee and the Lady poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Magee and the Lady

1978

Terra Nova poster
7.0

A disturbed young woman runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane despite the voices in her head and her strange visions.

Terra Nova

1999

The Sparks Obituary poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sparks Obituary

1978

Sebastian and the Sparrow poster
7.7

The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.

Sebastian and the Sparrow

1988