Richard Moir
Birthday: 1950-01-01
Place of Birth: Queensland, Australia
Biography: Richard Moir (born 1950) is an Australian former actor and editor. He is known for many Australian film roles and in the TV soap opera Prisoner as the original character of electrician Eddie Cook. In 1990, Moir was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the degenerative effects of which gradually brought his acting career to a premature end in 1999. Moir later underwent deep brain stimulation therapy, a process covered by the 2006 documentary The Bridge At Midnight Trembles. He was married to Australian actress Julie Nihill, and they have two daughters.
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Welcome to Woop Woop
A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange t...
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The Chain Reaction
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the...
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Running on Empty
Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racin...
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Heatwave
During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is d...
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Isabelle Eberhardt
The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. S...
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Sweet Dreamers
Two young Australian filmmakers meet in London and return home with dreams of making films that refl...
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Minnamurra
Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fa...
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Joey
Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydn...
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In Search of Anna
Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road h...
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An Indecent Obsession
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients....
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Wrong World
David Trueman is a young doctor who dreams of going to South America to practice medicine among the ...
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Jilted
Two people who have had disastrous love affairs meet on a tropical island resort....
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Not Dark Yet
Confined to his room in an aged care facility, an elderly man with a debilitating disease struggles ...
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The Challenge
The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon...
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The Odd Angry Shot
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the ...
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Remember Me
A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental instit...
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Hard Knuckle
In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia, the most popular sport is Hard Knuckle, a bloodier f...
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The Plains of Heaven
Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of copi...
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27A
A middle-aged alcoholic is sentenced to six weeks in jail for a minor offense. While there he underg...
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Going Down
Middle-class Karli, alcoholic Jane, unemployed Jackie, and square Ellen are four friends living toge...
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The Bridge at Midnight Trembles
On March 15, 2004, Richard Moir underwent an operation for Parkinson's Disease. Called Deep Brain St...
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One Way Ticket
Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murd...
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Hanging About
A look at a situation that leads to a bad end. Carol Jerrems' only known extant fiml....
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