Kate Fitzpatrick

Acting

Kate Fitzpatrick

Born

1947-10-01 (79)

Place of birth

Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Kate Fitzpatrick (born 1 October 1947) is an Australian-based television, film and theatre actress. Fitzpatrick is also a published author, essayist, and humourist whose work has appeared in numerous major newspapers and journals over the last 30 years. Fitzpatrick has also worked as a political speech writer during the 1990s.

Known for

Blue Heelers poster
6.7

Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.

Blue Heelers

1993

H2O: Just Add Water poster
7.8

H2O: Just Add Water revolves around three teenage girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist: they cope with the burden of growing a giant fin and transforming into mermaids whenever they come in contact with water.

H2O: Just Add Water

2006

All Saints poster
6.2

Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.

All Saints

1998

Miss USA poster
6.0

The Miss USA Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA.

Miss USA

1963

The Lost World poster
7.3

Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.

The Lost World

1999

Something in the Air poster
5.0

Something in the Air was an Australian television soap opera transmitted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2002. It was one of the first programs in Australia that was filmed in widescreen. It won the AACTA Award for Best Television Drama Series in 2001.

Something in the Air

2000

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 7 titles

The Return of Captain Invincible poster
6.2

In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...

The Return of Captain Invincible

1983

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

A World Apart poster
6.4

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

A World Apart

1988

Fantasy Man poster
NR

A man approaching a midlife crisis has a fantasy affair with a waitress.

Fantasy Man

1985

The Perfectionist poster
8.0

Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as housewife and start to study. Against the will of her husband she employs babysitter Eric while she attends university. Steward reacts increasingly nervous about the presence of another man in his family and brings their marriage into a crisis.

The Perfectionist

1985

Skin Deep poster
9.7

Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.

Skin Deep

1983

Goodbye Paradise poster
5.4

The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.

Goodbye Paradise

1983

1970s · 8 titles

The Removalists poster
5.0

An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.

The Removalists

1975

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

Homesdale poster
5.4

At a remote guest house known as Homesdale, a group of visitors find themselves subjected to strange rituals, psychological games, and increasingly cruel entertainments devised by the lodge’s staff. As the weekend unfolds, the tensions and obsessions each guest has brought with them begin to surface.

Homesdale

1971

Summer of Secrets poster
7.5

A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.

Summer of Secrets

1976

The Haunting of Hewie Dowker poster
10.0

Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales police officer, becomes aware that he has psychic abilities, which haunt him as he has recurrent visions of a young girl being murdered during a black mass.

The Haunting of Hewie Dowker

1976

No artwork available
7.0

Clyde is a typical junior clerk in a public service office. He watches the budding friendship between two co-workers and he turns it into the permanent office joke. At the same time he plays out his own neurotic relationship with a bored and frustrated secretary. The cruel mass victimisation of the young lovers is carried to the annual office picnic. Office tensions are changed by the unfamiliar surroundings where the disappearance of the two lovers forces Clyde to re-examine his own shallow emotional development.

The Office Picnic

1972

The Great MacArthy poster
5.2

Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.

The Great MacArthy

1975

Promised Woman poster
8.0

Antigone arrives in Sydney from Greece to have an arranged marriage with Telis, but is rejected by him as he expected a younger woman. Telis's older brother, Manolis, sympathizes with Antigone.

Promised Woman

1976

Series credits

Blue Heelers poster
6.7

Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.

Blue Heelers

1993

H2O: Just Add Water poster
7.8

H2O: Just Add Water revolves around three teenage girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist: they cope with the burden of growing a giant fin and transforming into mermaids whenever they come in contact with water.

H2O: Just Add Water

2006

All Saints poster
6.2

Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.

All Saints

1998

Miss USA poster
6.0

The Miss USA Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA.

Miss USA

1963

The Lost World poster
7.3

Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.

The Lost World

1999

Something in the Air poster
5.0

Something in the Air was an Australian television soap opera transmitted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2002. It was one of the first programs in Australia that was filmed in widescreen. It won the AACTA Award for Best Television Drama Series in 2001.

Something in the Air

2000

Satisfaction poster
6.3

Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.

Satisfaction

2007

Cops L.A.C. poster
8.7

Cops L.A.C. is a 2010 Australian television police drama, which screened on the Nine Network. The series followed the work of officers at the Seaview Local Area Command, a fictitious police response area of the 'State Police' set in harbourside Sydney, New South Wales. The first series premiered on 2 September 2010, in the same timeslot of Network Ten's police drama Rush. On 22 November 2010, the Nine Network cancelled the show due to the high production costs.

Cops L.A.C.

2010

Twisted Tales poster
8.0

Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a twist at the end of the story.

Twisted Tales

1996

Call Me Mister poster
6.0

Australian ex-cop Jack Bartholomew goes to Britain when he discovers he's heir to a family title; when he doesn't get on with his new family, he starts working as a private detective.

Call Me Mister

1986

Parkinson In Australia poster
6.0

Australian version of Michael Parkinson's UK talk show. He interviews a broad range of famous Australians, and in later series, international stars.

Parkinson In Australia

1979

Scooter: Secret Agent poster
NR

An extremely clumsy teenager finds a computer belonging to the world’s greatest Secret Agent and decides to complete the missions meant for Agent X-19. In a world of master criminals and high-tech gadgets, how long will it be before the Agency realises their top operative is a sixteen year-old pizza delivery boy?

Scooter: Secret Agent

2005

Boney poster
6.7

Boney is an Australian television series produced by Fauna Productions during 1971 and 1972, featuring James Laurenson in the title role of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Two series, each of thirteen episodes were filmed. The series is centred on Bonaparte, a half-Australian Aboriginal character, created by Arthur Upfield, who wrote twenty nine novels about him from 1929 until his death in 1964.

Boney

1972

No artwork available
10.0

Dog's Head Bay is a 1999 Australian TV series co-written by David Williamson about a lawyer who buys a weekender house.

Dog's Head Bay

1999

No artwork available
10.0

Birds in the Bush is an Australian/United Kingdom situation comedy series produced in 1972. The series was set on a remote Australian property run by seven beautiful but naive young women. When the property is inherited by an English water diviner he and his Australian half-brother and an assistant begin living on the property and attempt to teach the nubile young women the ways of the world. The series focused on the physical attractiveness of the young women, who all wore skimpy blue smocks and had names like "Abigail", "Lolita", "Tuesday", "Wednesday" and "Buster", along with Carry On-style innuendo.

Birds in the Bush

1972

Ketchup: Cats Who Cook poster
NR

Ketchup: Cats Who Cook is an animated series broadcast between October 5, 1998, and April 2, 1999, on NHK in Japan. It was a co-production with Southern Star of Australia,

Ketchup: Cats Who Cook

1998