Vincent Ball
Vincent Martin Ball OAM (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian-born retired character actor of radio, stage and screen, active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain and then his native Australia. He has also authored a number of books.
He is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and TV movies, including A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Phar Lap, Muriel's Wedding and The Man Who Sued God. He appeared in numerous TV roles, primarily in cameo guest roles, but had recurring roles in serials like Rush, The Young Doctors, A Country Practice and Home and Away.
Vincent Ball has also worked variously in theatre, including Shakespeare, with productions of Henry IV and Romeo and Juliet and a musical based on Charles Dickens famous novel Great Expectations.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.493 |
| Birthday | 1923-12-04 |
| Place of Birth | Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia |
| Also Known As | Vincent Martin Ball, |
1956
The Long Arm
7/17
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
1987
The Year My Voice Broke
7.1/35
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 t...
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The Year My Voice Broke
1958
Sea of Sand
6.4/18
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North A...
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Sea of Sand
1968
Where Eagles Dare
7.5/868
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impo...
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Where Eagles Dare
1962
Carry On Cruising
6/61
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to...
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Carry On Cruising
1980
Breaker Morant
7.1/140
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca...
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Breaker Morant
1954
The Black Rider
6.2/4
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined c...
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The Black Rider
1955
The Stolen Airliner
0/0
Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.
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The Stolen Airliner
1983
Phar Lap
7.2/25
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the...
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Phar Lap
1958
Blood of the Vampire
5.615/39
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crip...
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Blood of the Vampire
1971
Clinic Exclusive
3.5/4
A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.
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Clinic Exclusive
1994
Sirens
5.6/144
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned cont...
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Sirens
1957
Menace In The Night
0/0
A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
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Menace In The Night
1954
Devil's Point
0/0
A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.
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Devil's Point
1956
A Town Like Alice
6.3/32
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...
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A Town Like Alice
1961
Middle Course
0/0
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Can...
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Middle Course
1960
Feet of Clay
0/0
Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith), wh...
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Feet of Clay
1955
Blonde Blackmailer
0/0
A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a murder he did not commit.
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Blonde Blackmailer
2003
The Night We Called It a Day
5.071/14
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the cou...
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The Night We Called It a Day
1954
Dangerous Voyage
5.9/7
A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost...
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Dangerous Voyage
1949
Stop Press Girl
5.7/6
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange abili...
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Stop Press Girl
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
1953
The Drayton Case
6/1
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
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The Drayton Case
1960
Dentist in the Chair
5.9/9
The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.
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Dentist in the Chair
1957
Robbery Under Arms
5.4/7
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief...
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Robbery Under Arms
1983
The Dismissal
0/0
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-Genera...
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The Dismissal
1961
Highway to Battle
0/0
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gesta...
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Highway to Battle
1949
The Interrupted Journey
6/16
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, h...
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The Interrupted Journey
1993
Love In Limbo
4.4/5
Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to Kalgoor...
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Love In Limbo
1971
Not Tonight, Darling
6.2/6
A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend...
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Not Tonight, Darling
1997
Paradise Road
6.4/85
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during Wor...
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Paradise Road
1951
Talk of a Million
0/0
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the sce...
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Talk of a Million
1963
Echo of Diana
5.2/4
When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
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Echo of Diana
1981
Alison's Birthday
5.4/24
During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three...
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Alison's Birthday
1956
The Secret of the Forest
0/0
Two children dig up an old Viking treasure ship and become involved with crooks who have buried their loot on the site. Specially made for children.
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The Secret of the Forest
1960
Identity Unknown
0/0
Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.
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Identity Unknown
1960
Dead Lucky
5/1
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. B...
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Dead Lucky
1976
Deathcheaters
5.8/10
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
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Deathcheaters
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
6.6/41
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
1985
Call Me Mr. Brown
5/1
Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extort...
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Call Me Mr. Brown
1967
Carry on Follow That Camel
5.8/45
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the...
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Carry on Follow That Camel
1951
Encore
6.2/11
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat...
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Encore
1979
Demolition
3/2
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repeti...
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Demolition
1994
Muriel's Wedding
6.8/445
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
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Muriel's Wedding
1986
Double Sculls
0/0
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
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Double Sculls
1987
Vietnam
8.6/5
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam
1959
Danger Within
6.2/15
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysteriou...
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Danger Within
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
1961
A Matter of WHO
6.2/4
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
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A Matter of WHO
1963
The Mouse on the Moon
5.9/27
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new s...
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The Mouse on the Moon
2002
Black and White
6/10
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation M...
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Black and White
1993
Frauds
6/22
The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games...
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