Jan Friedl

Acting

Jan Friedl

Born 1948-09-14

Acting credits

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

Flynn poster
4.5

A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.

Flynn

1993

Visitors poster
5.2

The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.

Visitors

2003

Bachelor Girl poster
4.0

Dorothy, single and one of the writers of the soap "The True World" hates living alone, but the guys she knows don't appeal to her. Her aunt Esther's attempts to match-make with random men just annoy her. Then she meets an old friend from college who he seems perfect...

Bachelor Girl

1987

Amy poster
5.9

Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.

Amy

1998

Cornflakes for tea poster
NR

3 young children living in commission flats in Melbourne are left to try and fend for themselves, after their alcoholic Dad leaves them.

Cornflakes for tea

1981

Alvin Purple poster
5.4

Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.

Alvin Purple

1973

Stork poster
5.6

Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....

Stork

1971

Waterfront poster
NR

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.

Waterfront

1984

What the Moon Saw poster
10.0

Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn into the world of the theatre, where the illusion is everything and grease-paint covers up reality. While watching a pantomime of Sinbad, Steven succumbs to the magic of the story and actually becomes the sailor on his greatest adventure ever.

What the Moon Saw

1990

A Terrible Beauty poster
3.0

After her father destroys her prototype 'Soulmate' robot, a replacement for her dead mother, a roboticist, Olivia, questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering and the nature of love.

A Terrible Beauty

2017