John Howard
Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.335 |
Birthday | 1952-10-22 |
Place of Birth | Corowa, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As | Τζον Χάουαρντ, |
1988
Young Einstein
5.149/151
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Al...
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Young Einstein
2006
Jindabyne
5.4/69
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
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Jindabyne
1983
Gary's Story
0/0
A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.
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Gary's Story
1996
Dating the Enemy
6.5/27
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their firs...
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Dating the Enemy
1980
The Club
6/17
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...
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The Club
1988
Around the World in Eighty Ways
1/1
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ri...
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Around the World in Eighty Ways
1983
Bush Christmas
5.8/6
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Y...
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Bush Christmas
2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
7.616/22539
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed figh...
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2004
A Man's Gotta Do
4.2/5
Eddy does what he has to do to give his family what they want. For the last 25 years, he has secretly moonlighted as a "standover" man, purely to prov...
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A Man's Gotta Do
2003
Take Away
3.9/5
Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual...
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Take Away
2003
Japanese Story
6.4/70
Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arroga...
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Japanese Story
2001
The Man Who Sued God
6.523/66
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance m...
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The Man Who Sued God
1999
In a Savage Land
5.1/9
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks ou...
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In a Savage Land
1998
Never Tell Me Never
5/2
This is the true story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.
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Never Tell Me Never
1997
Blackrock
6/11
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...
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Blackrock
1988
Evil Angels
6.7/202
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take...
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Evil Angels
1984
Strikebound
5.3/5
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-...
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Strikebound
1984
Razorback
5.8/179
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
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Razorback
2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7.5/3428
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord D...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2015
Last Cab to Darwin
6.9/68
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin...
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Last Cab to Darwin
2002
The Road from Coorain
7.5/2
A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
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The Road from Coorain
1993
Joh's Jury
7/1
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Joh's Jury
2018
The Merger
5.8/14
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
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The Merger
1982
The Highest Honour
5.7/3
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
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The Highest Honour
2014
Grace Under Water
0/0
Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy af...
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Grace Under Water
2018
Frontier
5/1
Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil ensue...
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Frontier
2019
A Matter Of Principle
5.5/2
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A Matter Of Principle
1975
Capone
6/90
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his...
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