Robert Austin

Robert Austin

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Biography: Robert Austin was an accomplished actor who led an impressive career, primarily on the big screen. Austin began his acting career appearing mainly in films, such as "First to Fight" (1967) with Chad Everett, the drama "My Brilliant Career" (1980) with Judy Davis and the Glenda Jackson drama "Giro City" (1982). He also appeared in the TV movie "The Bunker" (CBS, 1980-81). He kept working in film throughout the eighties, starring in the action flick "Xtro" (1983) with Philip Sayer, "Number One" (1984) and the Michael Caine spy picture "The Jigsaw Man" (1984). He also appeared in "Morons From Outer Space" (1985). His work around this time also included a part on the TV movie "Pope John Paul II" (CBS, 1983-84). Additionally, he appeared on the television special "Sleepers" (PBS, 1991-92). Austin more recently acted in the crime flick "Swoon" (1992) with Daniel Schlachet.

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Dead Lucky
Dead Lucky

Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately...

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Baal
Baal

Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to ...

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Absolute Beginners
Absolute Beginners

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old pho...

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My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family w...

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Interior Decorator From Hell
Interior Decorator From Hell

A bleak Dana, longing for Richard, engages an unusual interior decorating service, resulting in a co...

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Shift Work
Shift Work

It's Julie's last night as a mini-cab driver and it's a night full of adventures she'll never forget...

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First to Fight
First to Fight

Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism a...

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Sin with Our Permission
Sin with Our Permission

A social scientist working in a New Town development discovers that the community television system ...

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Hiroshima
Hiroshima

The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. C...

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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II

Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young acti...

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Pleasure
Pleasure

Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of cours...

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Morons from Outer Space
Morons from Outer Space

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four...

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Number One
Number One

A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money....

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The Bunker
The Bunker

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his undergrou...

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Xtro
Xtro

Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife a...

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Giro City
Giro City

Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth ce...

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The Jigsaw Man
The Jigsaw Man

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plas...

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