Robert Bruning

Acting

Robert Bruning

Born 1928-05-27 · Dongara, Western Australia, Australia

Robert Bruning (27 May 1928 - 4 March 2008) was an Australian actor and film producer, who was the founder of film production firm Gemini Productions.

Acting credits

Ned Kelly poster
4.8

Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

Ned Kelly

1970

The Wild Duck poster
7.0

Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

The Wild Duck

1984

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

Sunday Too Far Away poster
6.5

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.

Sunday Too Far Away

1975

The Newman Shame poster
9.0

John Brandy is an ex-cop on holiday in Singapore with his girlfriend Ginger when he hears an old Perth banker friend of his, Frank Newman, has committed suicide. He travels to Perth and discovers that Newman killed himself after being drugged at a party and found himself in a pornographic film; he was blackmailed and embezzled money to pay off his tormentors, but when the film was distributed anyway he decided to take his own life. Newman and Ginger decide to investigate who is behind the blackmail racket.

The Newman Shame

1978

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9.0

An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.

Polly My Love

1975

That Lady from Peking poster
4.0

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a diary revealing the true events taking place in China. While making his escape, the defector is killed ant the diary vanishes. The reporter sets off on a search for it, from Hong Kong to Australia. The chase ends in an action-filled climax, with the journalist finally meeting up with "That Lady from Peking" (Nancy Kwan) - the diplomat's daughter.

That Lady from Peking

1975

Color Me Dead poster
6.3

A man discovers that he has been deliberately poisoned and hasn't long to live. In the short time he has left, he determines to find out who poisoned him and why. Remake of the 1950 film noir classic, D.O.A.

Color Me Dead

1969

The Alternative poster
4.3

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.

The Alternative

1977

Behind the camera

The Territorians poster
10.0

A young Aboriginal policeman and a detective from the city investigate a series of apparently unmotivated murders taking place in the remote outback.

The Territorians

1996

The Night Nurse poster
7.5

A private nurse, working for a retired opera star, runs into opposition from the diva's longtime servant/companion. When she pushes back, she starts to uncover some dastardly goings-on.

The Night Nurse

1978

13 Gantry Row poster
5.3

When newlyweds Peter and Julie purchase an old house with plans to renovate it, they begin to discover the strangest things. First, they find one of the living room walls covered with iron plates that reveal an expanding sepia stain. Afterwards, they realize that the stain is beginning to take the shape of a man climbing from the darkness under the house. Whenever they paint over the stain, it reappears. The evil events that took place in the house 100 years prior, are becoming the cause of strange occurrences. Soon, the couple is directly threatened by the evil history of their home.

13 Gantry Row

1998

Is There Anybody There? poster
7.0

A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers.

Is There Anybody There?

1976

The Newman Shame poster
9.0

John Brandy is an ex-cop on holiday in Singapore with his girlfriend Ginger when he hears an old Perth banker friend of his, Frank Newman, has committed suicide. He travels to Perth and discovers that Newman killed himself after being drugged at a party and found himself in a pornographic film; he was blackmailed and embezzled money to pay off his tormentors, but when the film was distributed anyway he decided to take his own life. Newman and Ginger decide to investigate who is behind the blackmail racket.

The Newman Shame

1978

The Alternative poster
4.3

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.

The Alternative

1977

Gone to Ground poster
10.0

A man is brutally beaten so he and 4 others head to the beach for refuge and relaxation. It soon becomes clear that they've been imprisoned by person or persons unknown. Then an unknown mad killer begins picking off the vacationers, one by one.

Gone to Ground

1978

Image of Death poster
5.5

Image of Death is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a woman who likes to live off other people's money.

Image of Death

1978