
Acting
Jeffery Richards
Jeffery Richards is a Melbourne based film, television and stage actor, award winning playwright, published author and screenplay writer with over three decades of experience behind him. He was also the editor and voice of Trent for the two time Emmy Award nominated animation series, Get Ace. At this stage he has several feature films scripts on his slate in various stages, along with a musical and a television comedy series.
Acting credits
3.3An American tycoon goes to Melbourne where he meets a married secretary.
Hunting
1991
5.7Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
The Big Steal
1990
6.0The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an end to the illegal operations that were killing young women. It’s a truly inspiring story. Dr Wainer’s determination, even when his own life and that of his family’s was threatened, never faltered. He was living proof that one person can make a difference and change the status quo. With the support of Dr Wainer’s family, the filmmakers have endeavoured to capture the essence of his struggle to expose police corruption and change the law.
Dangerous Remedy
2012
6.3In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.
Underground: The Julian Assange Story
2012
6.0Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through the young city, still flush from its gold-rush boom.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
2012
6.0On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.
Father
1990
NRan Australian independent drama directed by Duncan James, following a bored, suburban housewife named Suze who discovers shocking secrets about her husband during a solo road trip. The 1h 23m film explores themes of guilt, redemption, and complex family dynamics with a French-cinema-inspired style.
Misgivings
2025
5.2Cahya gets a job as a maid working in an isolated old mansion. Pregnant and a recent widow, she is desperate to reconnect with her husband, opening a doorway to the spirit world. And in doing so, inadvertently awakens the tormented ghosts of her current employer, the previous maids.
Sleeping Beauties
2023
7.0The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.
Rose Against the Odds
1991
2.6With only nightmares for childhood memories, Lily Stone returns to her family home to find out what happened to her parents. Despite the locals' warnings about an evil presence cursing the house, Lily crosses the threshold and discovers not all the ghosts that haunt us are dead.
Apparitions
2021
NRAfter a homeless ex-filmmaker witnesses a kidnapping, he comes to believe that he is trapped in a horror movie filmed by the city's CCTV, where the only way to survive is to stay on camera - no matter what.
CCTV Nasty
2025
NRPersephone Chase is a contract assassin with a difference. In a fond homage to 1970s drive-in action thrillers -- but set in modern-day Melbourne -- powerful criminals plot the downfall of a right-wing, devoutly religious political candidate... and each other.
Scope
2010
NRIn the distant future, our race has broken away from the holds of religious belief, and with the advancement of technology harnesses a concept known as retro-causality, changing events before they occur.
The Rift - Candidate 23
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