Ivar Kants

Acting

Ivar Kants

Born 1949-07-19 · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ivar Kants (born 19 July 1949 in South Australia) (commonly credited as Ivor Kants) is an Australian actor who played the role of Ken Garrett in soap opera The Restless Years. Later roles include School Principal Barry Hyde in Home And Away. He has also appeared in Neighbours and Heartbreak High.He also played the main role is the cult Australian film 'The Plumber' Kants had left home at 19 to enroll in NIDA in Sydney. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ivar Kants, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Electric Feel poster
NR

When her lifeline - a new technology for mental health - mysteriously vanishes, a reclusive young woman must infiltrate a secret underground rave scene to uncover the truth behind its disappearance.

Electric Feel

The Plumber poster
6.4

A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.

The Plumber

1979

No artwork available
NR

When The CEO of a synthetic meat empire reveals his product is secretly grown from human flesh, he must use extreme measures to persuade his morally opposed successor to save his legacy and the starving masses.

F-Meat

Edge of Power poster
6.5

The worlds of journalism and politics collide in this story about an experienced journalist who desperately needs to scoop a big story in order to revamp his career. Deciding he'll take matters into his own hands, he frames a politician and arranges to be there when the story is leaked to the public. What he doesn't realize is that his own devious behavior is about to get him caught in the middle of a dangerous web of lies and murder.

Edge of Power

1989

Barnaby and Me poster
6.2

Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.

Barnaby and Me

1977

Jenny Kissed Me poster
3.7

A woman moves away from her boyfriend because she suspects his feelings towards her pre-teen daughter. He tries to find them in the sordid side of Melbourne.

Jenny Kissed Me

1986

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

Twelfth Night poster
6.3

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

Twelfth Night

1987

Brothers poster
9.0

Together in the hell holes of war worlds apart in a small town

Brothers

1982

The Naked Country poster
4.5

Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life

The Naked Country

1985

Gallagher's Travels poster
7.0

When reporter Danny Gallagher and photographer Sally Woodrow team-up to crack an international animal smuggling racket, the gang behind the operation leads the reckless pair on a chase across Australia straight into the jaws of fatal danger.

Gallagher's Travels

1987

Puzzle poster
10.0

Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.

Puzzle

1978

Silver City poster
4.8

After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of their passage. Even though he is married to Anna and has a son, Julian falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian decides what to do about love and family, and Nina must find a way to move on.

Silver City

1984

Moving Out poster
9.0

Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.

Moving Out

1983

Dawn! poster
8.7

Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

Dawn!

1979

You and Me and Uncle Bob poster
8.0

Two children who play cupid to an unlikely older couple: a chorus girl and an unemployed butcher.

You and Me and Uncle Bob

1992

Return to Sandakan poster
NR

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions, only six of these POW's were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed, the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light, considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.

Return to Sandakan

1995