Ray Barrett

Acting

Ray Barrett

Born 1927-05-02 · Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

From IMDb: Ray Barrett studied music and elocution and began acting at the age of eleven. He was the first actor put under contract by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Drama section. He worked for several years on radio in Sydney, before working successfully in Britain between 1958 and the mid-1970s, when he returned to Australia. He has received two AFI (Australian Film Industry) awards as an actor.

Acting credits

Australia poster
6.6

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Australia

2008

The Sundowners poster
6.7

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

The Sundowners

1960

Heaven's Burning poster
5.7

In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only to become a hostage in an unfolding robbery, until the getaway driver, Colin, saves her from his fellow robbers. They hit the road together, with the cops, her husband and the robbers in pursuit.

Heaven's Burning

1997

Thunderbirds: Ricochet poster
8.0

When a pirate radio station in orbit malfunctions and plummets towards Earth, International Rescue must save the DJ on board and prevent the craft from crashing into a populated area.

Thunderbirds: Ricochet

1966

Thunderbirds Are GO poster
6.4

When the launch of a mission to Mars goes awry due to sabotage, International Rescue is requested to assist in the mission's second attempt.

Thunderbirds Are GO

1966

The Incredible Voyage of Stingray poster
6.0

Adventures of the super-sub Stingray and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol and their battles against Titan, leader of the underwater city of Titanica.

The Incredible Voyage of Stingray

1980

Contagion poster
6.2

A real estate agent is lured to a run-down mansion only to be trapped and tortured by ghosts.

Contagion

1988

Where the Green Ants Dream poster
6.9

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

The Earthling poster
6.3

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.

The Earthling

1980

Visitors poster
5.2

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

Visitors

2003

The Empty Beach poster
4.9

Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marion, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.

The Empty Beach

1985

Blood Oath poster
5.7

On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes

Blood Oath

1990

Thunderbirds: Operation Crash-Dive poster
NR

After a series of Fireflash airliners start inexplicably crashing into the sea, International Rescue volunteers to assist in the investigation.

Thunderbirds: Operation Crash-Dive

1965

Stingray: The Reunion Party poster
NR

While waiting for Atlanta and Marina, Commander Sam Shore shows Admiral Denver films depicting the previous missions that Troy Tempest and Phones had with the submarine Stingray.

Stingray: The Reunion Party

2008

Revenge poster
5.7

A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.

Revenge

1971

No Room to Run poster
6.5

Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When the man is killed in the airport, Loomis ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life with the help of Terry McKenna, a woman from Austin working for the Sydney Opera House.

No Room to Run

1977

Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep poster
NR

International Rescue must save the crew of a new super tanker when it sails into a patch of sea harbouring a fungus that reacts explosively with the vessel's cargo of liquid fuel.

Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep

1966

The Reptile poster
6.1

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.

The Reptile

1966

Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster poster
6.0

Jeff, Brains and Tin-Tin find themselves trapped onboard a crooked entrepreneur's automated cross-country monorail that is hurtling towards a collapsed bridge without means of stopping.

Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster

1966

Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker poster
6.0

Brains' new airliner Skythrust hosts a fashion show aboard its maiden flight, but the plane is hijacked by crooks intent on stealing a revolutionary fabric to be modelled by Lady Penelope.

Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker

1966

Thunderbirds: Edge of Impact poster
7.0

Hired by General Bron to sabotage Britain's new Red Arrow fighter jet, the Hood endangers two technicians when he causes the plane's second prototype to crash into a TV relay tower.

Thunderbirds: Edge of Impact

1965

Thunderbirds: The Imposters poster
NR

When International Rescue is framed for theft, the organisation's intelligence network must clear their name before the Tracys are arrested, responding to a distress call they cannot ignore.

Thunderbirds: The Imposters

1966

Peer Gynt poster
9.0

The 1972 BBC adaptation of Ibsen’s epic dramatic fantasy about a man in search of his soul.

Peer Gynt

1972

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NR

A combination of a corporate documentary at the Leyland Australia headquarters in New South Wales and a dramatic story. The plot involves the Ferrier, an industrial spy who works for Sullivan, attempt to steal the secrets of the new soon-to-be-released Leyland P76 motor vehicle. He follows a publicist, Barrett, who is helping a female journalist write a story on the new car's production.

The Carmakers

1973