Vincent Ball
Birthday: 1923-12-04
Place of Birth: Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia
Biography: 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl...
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The Year My Voice Broke
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and fi...
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Sea of Sand
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...
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Where Eagles Dare
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the S...
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Carry On Cruising
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short no...
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Breaker Morant
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...
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The Black Rider
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motor...
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The Stolen Airliner
Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner....
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Phar Lap
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Austr...
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Blood of the Vampire
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to...
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Clinic Exclusive
A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers....
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Sirens
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visi...
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Menace In The Night
A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is t...
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Devil's Point
A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers....
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A Town Like Alice
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The ...
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Middle Course
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making l...
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Feet of Clay
Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represen...
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Blonde Blackmailer
A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a murd...
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The Night We Called It a Day
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local r...
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Dangerous Voyage
A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no pape...
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Stop Press Girl
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she does...
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The Highest Honour
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expeditio...
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The Drayton Case
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a stran...
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Dentist in the Chair
The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burgla...
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Robbery Under Arms
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convi...
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Highway to Battle
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys f...
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The Interrupted Journey
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking...
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Love In Limbo
Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell C...
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Not Tonight, Darling
A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Pee...
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Paradise Road
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being impri...
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Talk of a Million
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer look...
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Echo of Diana
When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers ...
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Alison's Birthday
During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyon...
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The Secret of the Forest
Two children dig up an old Viking treasure ship and become involved with crooks who have buried thei...
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Identity Unknown
Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of pass...
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Dead Lucky
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been wor...
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Deathcheaters
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a to...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...
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Call Me Mr. Brown
Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of ...
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Follow That Camel
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign L...
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Encore
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugha...
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Demolition
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-...
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Muriel's Wedding
Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her opp...
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Double Sculls
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national ...
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Vietnam
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War....
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Danger Within
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers f...
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The Man Who Sued God
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck b...
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A Matter of WHO
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilli...
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The Mouse on the Moon
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the ca...
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Black and White
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illit...
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Frauds
The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and man...
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Deadline
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the ...
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The Baby and the Battleship
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...
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The Irishman
Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way thin...
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John and Julie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....
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Very Important Person
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease ...
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