Harold Hopkins

Acting

Harold Hopkins

Born 1944-03-06 · Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

Harold Douglas Hopkins (6 March 1944 – 11 December 2011) was an Australian film and television actor.

Acting credits

Gallipoli poster
7.1

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Gallipoli

1981

The Clinic poster
5.6

While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?

The Clinic

2010

Joey poster
5.7

Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.

Joey

1997

Age of Consent poster
6.0

An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.

Age of Consent

1969

Our Lips Are Sealed poster
6.0

Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this Down Under adventure filled with nonstop Aussie intrigue, laughs and romance. After running afoul of a notorious gangster, Mary-Kate and Ashley take refuge in the FBI Witness Protection Program. Unfortunately, the girls are uncontrollable blabbermouths and they blow their cover in town after town until there's only one hiding place left - Australia.

Our Lips Are Sealed

2000

The Picture Show Man poster
6.5

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

The Picture Show Man

1977

Ginger Meggs poster
6.0

The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.

Ginger Meggs

1982

Children of the Revolution poster
5.6

A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.

Children of the Revolution

1996

Buddies poster
6.4

Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly

Buddies

1983

Fantasy Man poster
NR

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

Fantasy Man

1985

Resistance poster
6.0

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.

Resistance

1992

The Legend of Fred Paterson poster
8.0

The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any Australian parliament.

The Legend of Fred Paterson

1996

The Highest Honour poster
6.6

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

The Highest Honour

1982

The Club poster
6.0

The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.

The Club

1980

Blackrock poster
5.5

In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

Blackrock

1997

Monkey Grip poster
5.5

Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.

Monkey Grip

1982

Don's Party poster
5.5

On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.

Don's Party

1976

Saturn's Return poster
4.9

Two young man in love, Barney and Dimi, are on a trip to visit Dan, Barney's dying father. Dan is planning his suicide and wants Barney there.

Saturn's Return

2001

Joh's Jury poster
7.0

Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Joh's Jury

1993

Bloodlock poster
7.5

A young man in trouble is forced to drag his family into the problem.

Bloodlock

1998

The Year My Voice Broke poster
7.1

Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.

The Year My Voice Broke

1987

No Worries poster
7.5

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

No Worries

1994

Big ideas poster
8.0

Selling compost brings a boy inventor (Justin Rosniak) and his widowed mother (Gosia Dobrowolska) into conflict with their neighbor.

Big ideas

1992

Billy and Percy poster
7.0

Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries.

Billy and Percy

1974