Marcus Cole

Directing

Marcus Cole

Born

1951-10-29 (74)

Place of birth

Melbourne, Australia

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Marcus Cole (born October 28, 1951) is an Australian director. He began his career in 1969 as a journalist on the Melbourne Herald. Later he worked as a freelance script writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Crawford Productions, before being accepted into the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

Known for

Childhood Sweetheart? poster
4.8

After seventeen years, a missing girl returns home. But is she a long-lost friend or a cold-blooded killer?

Childhood Sweetheart?

1997

Yesterday's Children poster
7.5

After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.

Yesterday's Children

2000

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder poster
7.0

A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

1999

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues poster
6.0

Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's a daunting journey, but they're sustained by their resolve. However, they're faced with an even greater challenge after their arrival: an ailing and bedridden Almanzo is unable to tend their new land. With winter fast on its way, Laura attempts to clear the land herself and plant the acres of apple trees that they hope will ensure their future.

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues

2002

A Thousand Men and a Baby poster
6.0

An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but the Korean authorities want to avoid calling the commander to let him in an orphanage. Telefilm based on a true story that occurred in 1953.

A Thousand Men and a Baby

1997

Timepiece poster
7.0

Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, Kilner's family life is in disarray with various crises including his daughter catching meningitis.

Timepiece

1996

Behind the camera

Childhood Sweetheart? poster
4.8

After seventeen years, a missing girl returns home. But is she a long-lost friend or a cold-blooded killer?

Childhood Sweetheart?

1997

Yesterday's Children poster
7.5

After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.

Yesterday's Children

2000

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder poster
7.0

A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

1999

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues poster
6.0

Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's a daunting journey, but they're sustained by their resolve. However, they're faced with an even greater challenge after their arrival: an ailing and bedridden Almanzo is unable to tend their new land. With winter fast on its way, Laura attempts to clear the land herself and plant the acres of apple trees that they hope will ensure their future.

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues

2002

A Thousand Men and a Baby poster
6.0

An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but the Korean authorities want to avoid calling the commander to let him in an orphanage. Telefilm based on a true story that occurred in 1953.

A Thousand Men and a Baby

1997

Timepiece poster
7.0

Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, Kilner's family life is in disarray with various crises including his daughter catching meningitis.

Timepiece

1996

Guilty Hearts poster
4.6

Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.

Guilty Hearts

2002

Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story poster
8.0

The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993.

Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story

1996

A Season of Hope poster
3.5

When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point. Is there any hope left for them?

A Season of Hope

1995

Computer Ghosts poster
3.7

A security company conjures up fake computer-generated "ghosts" so they can buy abandoned property at below-market value at auctions. However, a mysterious couple appear out of seemingly nowhere to thwart the company's plans.

Computer Ghosts

1988

Tracks of Glory poster
7.0

Racial barriers are broken in circa-1900 Australia by Major Taylor, who becomes a world-champion bicycle racer.

Tracks of Glory

1992

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler poster
6.8

Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time?

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1995

The Christmas Box poster
5.5

A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.

The Christmas Box

1995

Three Secrets poster
5.0

Three women each cling to the hope that an 8 year old boy that survives an airplane crash is their son that was put up for adoption as a baby. This is a remake of the 1950 film by the same name.

Three Secrets

1999

A Song from the Heart poster
7.0

This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that true love is right before her eyes.

A Song from the Heart

1999