Gary Sweet
Gary Sweet (born 22 May 1957 in Melbourne) is an Australian film and television actor known for his roles in Alexandra's Project (2003), Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, The Battlers, Bodyline and Stingers. He grew up in Warradale, South Australia and attended Brighton high school in Adelaide. He later obtained a teaching degree and whilst at Sturt Teachers' College took up drama. His first role was in low-budget horror film Nightmares. In the early 1980s, Sweet became recognizable through the on-going role of Leslie 'Magpie' Maddern in the Crawfords television series The Sullivans.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.644 |
| Birthday | 1957-05-22 |
| Place of Birth | Melbourne, Australia |
| Also Known As |
2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6.443/5546
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantasti...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2003
Gettin' Square
6.4/35
Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and...
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Gettin' Square
2002
The Tracker
6.7/53
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission t...
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The Tracker
2003
Alexandra's Project
5.9/80
Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on...
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Alexandra's Project
2006
Macbeth
4/41
Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Du...
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Macbeth
1980
Nightmares
5.2/20
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death i...
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Nightmares
2009
Subdivision
5.3/6
Based on the change a rapidly growing town faces when southern developers take over.
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Subdivision
2001
Hard Knox
0/0
Niki Knox must stop an evil villain from stealing a gemstone which would help him obtain magical powers.
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Hard Knox
2013
Adore
6.1/963
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendshi...
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Adore
2012
Dangerous Remedy
0/0
The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put...
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Dangerous Remedy
1988
Fever
4.4/5
A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
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Fever
2013
Nerve
4.8/9
Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her i...
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Nerve
1990
What the Moon Saw
0/0
Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn i...
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What the Moon Saw
2023
A Savage Christmas
3/1
After years of estrangement, trans woman Davina Savage returns home for Christmas with her new boyfriend. Expecting her transition to be the focus, it...
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A Savage Christmas
1985
An Indecent Obsession
4.5/4
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing...
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An Indecent Obsession
1988
The Dreaming
5.3/3
When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, ev...
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The Dreaming
1997
Love in Ambush
0/0
An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from which Pol Pot would emerge.
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Love in Ambush
2008
The Tumbler
0/0
Two men, lost in the Australian desert, or are they? Hurtle, a tough Aussie bloke and ex-con, and Tahir, a soft-spoken, Afghani-Australian, are near d...
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The Tumbler
1993
CrimeBroker
5/1
High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls a...
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CrimeBroker
1994
Police Rescue: The Movie
5.5/2
A narcotics detective, suspected of corruption, gets a transfer to the Police Rescue Squad. An unstable man holds a daycare center hostage.
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Police Rescue: The Movie
2001
Bodyjackers
0/0
In the tradition of 1950s science fiction, a meteor crashes to earth and a toxic substance is released. A drifter captures some of the ooze and utiliz...
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Bodyjackers
2008
Bitter & Twisted
5.3/3
A family drifts down a spiral of self-destruction and depression in the years following the death of their eldest son. Can they come to terms with wha...
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Bitter & Twisted
2006
2:37
6.6/133
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
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2:37
2001
The Big House
3/3
Within the concrete confines of a life sentence, one man rediscovers his capacity for love.
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The Big House
2002
Tempe Tip
0/0
A feel good comedy.
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Tempe Tip
1989
Becca
0/0
Wales in the 19th Century. Becca is married to Dai, who is transported to the penal colony of Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for rebellion. His brother Gwyl...
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Becca
2013
Charlie's Country
7.1/48
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the prop...
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Charlie's Country
2012
Fatal Honeymoon
5.4/19
Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and...
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Fatal Honeymoon
2017
Making Muriel
0/0
Making Muriel gives audiences exclusive behind the scenes access as P.J. Hogan adapts his iconic film, Muriel's Wedding into a stage musical for Sydne...
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Making Muriel
2011
Bush Basher
0/0
A boy's weekend away between Weed and his estranged father takes a dark turn when he reveals his mother has been involved with another man.
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Bush Basher
1994
The Battlers
0/0
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between...
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The Battlers
2019
Two Heads Creek
5.269/67
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mot...
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Two Heads Creek
2011
The Telegram Man
7/1
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
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The Telegram Man
2016
A Month of Sundays
5.9/9
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One...
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A Month of Sundays
2020
Ayaan
2/1
An escaped asylum seeker encounters an Aboriginal man on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether to trust him or journey on alone.
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Ayaan
2020
Paper Champions
10/1
It is an uplifting comedy about Rey, a young man who wants to find love despite having lost his 'Mana'.
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Paper Champions
1987
The Lighthorsemen
6.1/34
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment...
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The Lighthorsemen
1994
Cody: The Tipoff
0/0
Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
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Cody: The Tipoff
1994
Cody: A Family Affair
0/0
Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brou...
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Cody: A Family Affair
1994
Cody: Bad Love
0/0
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgem...
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Cody: Bad Love
1995
Cody: The Burnout
0/0
Cody goes undercover on a task force established to track down arsonists who are wreaking havoc in the city. Fiorelli and Cody race against time to ob...
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Cody: The Burnout
1995
Cody: Fall from Grace
0/0
A jockey is found dead in the street after falling from a balcony of a Hotel. What is thought to be a routine suicide inquiry becomes a murder investi...
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Cody: Fall from Grace
1995
Cody: Wrong Stuff
0/0
A young girl dies after a batch of deadly pills find their way into a dance club scene. Cody and Fiorelli attempt to stop others from taking the letha...
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Cody: Wrong Stuff
Patched
0/0
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Patched
2025
Spit
0/0
Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his bac...
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