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Esme Melville is a Actor Australienne born on 23 july 1918
Esme Melville (born Esme Grace Mount-Melville, 23 July 1918 – 14 September 2006) was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden. At the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Miss Collard in Romulus, My Father. Her theatre roles included Mrs. Bedwin in Oliver! (1961–62, 1966–67). Melville had four separate on-going roles on television soap opera, Neighbours, including as Rose Belker during 2006. She died on 14 September 2006 after a short illness, aged 88.
Her television credits of the 1970s included various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and Bluey. Other appearances included guest roles in Crawford's adventure series Ryan (1973), and in the miniseries Power Without Glory (1976). Later television appearances include Sons and Daughters (1982), Special Squad (1984), The Flying Doctors (1986), Sugar and Spice (1988), Phoenix (1992), Round the Twist (1993), Wedlocked (1994), The Damnation of Harvey McHugh (1994), The Man from Snowy River (1994), Mercury (1996), Driven Crazy (1998), Eugenie Sandler P.I. (2000), SeaChange (2000), Stingers (2000), The Secret Life of Us (2001), miniseries Bootleg (2002), miniseries After the Deluge (2003), Real Stories (2006). She also made frequent appearances in televisions series Prisoner, Blue Heelers, and Neighbours. For the latter series she portrayed four different characters starting in 1986 with Mrs. York and most recently, in 2006, as the hard-of-hearing, Rose Belker. Her theatre roles include Serita in Waiting in the Wings, Mrs Grey in The Secretary Bird (1969) and Mrs. Bedwin in Oliver (1961–62, 1966–67).
Melville also acted in several feature films including Alvin Purple Rides Again (1974), Dimboola (1979), I Can Jump Puddles (1981) (TV), Squizzy Taylor (1982), Annie's Coming Out (1984), Niel Lynne (1985), The Four Minute Mile (1988) (TV), Mull (1989), Spotswood (1992), Say a Little Prayer (1993), The Heartbreak Kid (1993), Dead End (1999), Siam Sunset (1999), A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow (2000), Dalkeith (2001), Crackerjack (2002), Forbidden (2003), Romulus, My Father (2007). At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden. At the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Miss Collard in Romulus, My Father. She worked in student films, independent short films, did voice-overs and appeared in TV ads. Esme Melville had died on 14 September 2006 after a short illness, aged 88.
^ "A6770, Mount-Melville E G". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 10 November 2012. "Mount-Melville Esme Grace: Service Number – WR2065 : Date of birth – 23 Jul 1918 : Place of birth – Norwood SA : Place of enlistment – Port Adelaide : Next of Kin – Mount-Melville Margaret" .
^ "Crackerjack – The Veterans". The Movie Pages. Impact Services. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ "RAN/USN Fleet Radio Unit, Melbourne – FRUMel". Australia @ War (Peter Dunn). Retrieved 13 November 2012.
^ Moe. "Esme Melville: A Tribute". Neighbours: The Perfect Blend. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^ Maddox, Garry (24 February 2003). "Shady Characters Help Bury the Competition at Tropfest". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^ "2007 Winners & Nominees". Australian Film Institute. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
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Esme Melville
Birth name Esme Grace Mount-Melville
Nationality Australie
Birth 23 july 1918
Death 14 september 2006 (at 88 years) at Melbourne (Australie)
Nationality Australie
Birth 23 july 1918
Death 14 september 2006 (at 88 years) at Melbourne (Australie)
Esme Melville (born Esme Grace Mount-Melville, 23 July 1918 – 14 September 2006) was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden. At the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Miss Collard in Romulus, My Father. Her theatre roles included Mrs. Bedwin in Oliver! (1961–62, 1966–67). Melville had four separate on-going roles on television soap opera, Neighbours, including as Rose Belker during 2006. She died on 14 September 2006 after a short illness, aged 88.
Biography
Esme Melville was born as Esme Grace Mount-Melville on 23 July 1918 and grew up in Norwood. Her mother was Margaret Mount-Melville. Melville started as a theatre actress in Adelaide in 1939 – just before the outbreak of World War II. On 11 May 1944 Melville enrolled into the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service as a transport driver and was honourably discharged on 13 September 1946 from Victoria Barracks in Melbourne. She remained in that city and from 1956 worked at St Martins Theatre (later became St Martins Youth Arts Centre) for eight years.Her television credits of the 1970s included various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and Bluey. Other appearances included guest roles in Crawford's adventure series Ryan (1973), and in the miniseries Power Without Glory (1976). Later television appearances include Sons and Daughters (1982), Special Squad (1984), The Flying Doctors (1986), Sugar and Spice (1988), Phoenix (1992), Round the Twist (1993), Wedlocked (1994), The Damnation of Harvey McHugh (1994), The Man from Snowy River (1994), Mercury (1996), Driven Crazy (1998), Eugenie Sandler P.I. (2000), SeaChange (2000), Stingers (2000), The Secret Life of Us (2001), miniseries Bootleg (2002), miniseries After the Deluge (2003), Real Stories (2006). She also made frequent appearances in televisions series Prisoner, Blue Heelers, and Neighbours. For the latter series she portrayed four different characters starting in 1986 with Mrs. York and most recently, in 2006, as the hard-of-hearing, Rose Belker. Her theatre roles include Serita in Waiting in the Wings, Mrs Grey in The Secretary Bird (1969) and Mrs. Bedwin in Oliver (1961–62, 1966–67).
Melville also acted in several feature films including Alvin Purple Rides Again (1974), Dimboola (1979), I Can Jump Puddles (1981) (TV), Squizzy Taylor (1982), Annie's Coming Out (1984), Niel Lynne (1985), The Four Minute Mile (1988) (TV), Mull (1989), Spotswood (1992), Say a Little Prayer (1993), The Heartbreak Kid (1993), Dead End (1999), Siam Sunset (1999), A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow (2000), Dalkeith (2001), Crackerjack (2002), Forbidden (2003), Romulus, My Father (2007). At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden. At the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Miss Collard in Romulus, My Father. She worked in student films, independent short films, did voice-overs and appeared in TV ads. Esme Melville had died on 14 September 2006 after a short illness, aged 88.
^ "A6770, Mount-Melville E G". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 10 November 2012. "Mount-Melville Esme Grace: Service Number – WR2065 : Date of birth – 23 Jul 1918 : Place of birth – Norwood SA : Place of enlistment – Port Adelaide : Next of Kin – Mount-Melville Margaret" .
^ "Crackerjack – The Veterans". The Movie Pages. Impact Services. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ "RAN/USN Fleet Radio Unit, Melbourne – FRUMel". Australia @ War (Peter Dunn). Retrieved 13 November 2012.
^ Moe. "Esme Melville: A Tribute". Neighbours: The Perfect Blend. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^ Maddox, Garry (24 February 2003). "Shady Characters Help Bury the Competition at Tropfest". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^ "2007 Winners & Nominees". Australian Film Institute. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
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Romulus, My Father (2007)
, 1h44Directed by Richard Roxburgh
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Jacek Koman, Russell Dykstra
Roles Miss Collard
Rating65%
It tells the story of Romulus Gaiţă, a Romanian immigrant to Australia after World War II and his struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up his son, Raimond. As close family members die around him Raimond has to deal with the deterioration of his father's mental health. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Crackerjack (2002)
, 1h32Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Bill Hunter, Mick Molloy, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, John Clarke, Samuel Johnson
Rating66%
Jack Simpson is a wise-cracking, directionless layabout who works at an inner-city telemarketing firm. For years, he has been a member at the Cityside Lawn Bowls Club (in fact he has three memberships). But he has never played a single game, having only joined to get the free parking spaces from which he makes extra cash by renting them to his work-mates. But Cityside is in dire financial trouble and a greedy developer, Bernie Fowler, wants to turn it into a soul-less pokies venue. The Club President, Len, decides that all existing members must now play and Jack reluctantly has to turn up on Saturdays to take part in the bowling matches. Jack proves to be a natural player but he soon annoys and upsets the older club members with his brashness and lack of tact. Veteran player Stan, sensing that Jack only needs some guidance, both in the game and in life, takes him under his wing, trying to teach him to think of other people apart from himself.
Dalkeith (2001)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alan Hopgood, Ray Barrett, Gus Mercurio, Esme Melville, Jacinta Stapleton, Julie Nihill
Roles Maisie Carter
Rating69%
Siam Sunset (1999)
, 1h31Directed by John Polson
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Linus Roache, Roy Billing, Danielle Cormack, Alan Brough, Rebecca Hobbs, Esme Melville
Roles Dot
Rating63%
Perry (Linus Roache) is an English chemist working for a paint company and is depressed after losing his wife in a freak accident. As he tries to invent the new color Siam Sunset, he wins a prize, takes leave, and travels to Australia. Grace (Danielle Cormack), on the same tour bus, also has a troubled life. Together they hope to color the world with love rather than paint, but will the universe let them?
The Heartbreak Kid (1993)
, 1h33Directed by Michael Jenkins
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Claudia Karvan, Alex Dimitriades, Steve Bastoni, Louis Mandylor, Esme Melville, Doris Younane
Rating61%
Christina Papadopoulos (Claudia Karvan) is a sweet and well-meaning 22-year-old school teacher, engaged to ambitious lawyer Dimitri (Steve Bastoni). Christina's entire future seems planned out for her - albeit planned by her fiancé, her father and her priest.
Spotswood (1992)
, 1h25Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette
Roles Rose
Rating61%
In late 1960s Melbourne, Errol Wallace (Anthony Hopkins) is a financial business consultant who we meet in the course of his being hired by the board of Durmack, an automotive component manufacturer, where he assesses a large work force redundancy and recommends major layoffs.
Bloodlust (1992)
Directed by Richard Wolstencroft
Genres Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors John Flaus, Esme Melville, Richard Wolstencroft
Roles Basket Lady
Rating33%
Mull (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Don McLennan
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Nadine Garner, Bill Hunter, Mary Coustas, Juno Roxas, Esme Melville, Gerard Maguire
Roles Fanny
Rating62%
A sixteen-year-old teenage girl (Nadine Garner) is forced to care for her family, when her mother (Sue Jones) finds out she is dying of Hodgkin’s disease. The family consists of her father (Bill Hunter) a reformed alcoholic and recently born-again Christian, her heroin-dabbling closet gay older brother (Craig Morrison), and two trying younger siblings (Bradley Kilpatrick and Kymara Stowers) all packed into a rented flat in the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda. She also has to deal with her pregnant Greek best friend (Mary Coustas), her yearnings for her brother’s lover (Juno Roxas) and her gay former schoolteacher plus his lover.
Annie's Coming Out (1984)
, 1h36Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about disabilities
Actors Drew Forsythe, Monica Maughan, Lyn Collingwood, Wallas Eaton, Esme Melville, Alastair Duncan
Rating65%
Annie O'Farrell (based on Anne McDonald) is a 13-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who is unable to communicate and has been living in a government institution from an early age. Jessica Hathaway (based on Rosemary Crossley) is a therapist who learns to communicate with Annie using an alphabet board and comes to believe that although physically disabled, Annie is not intellectually impaired. When Annie turns 18, Jessica begins a legal fight to get her released.
High Country (1984)
, 1h31Genres Drama
Actors John Waters, Tom Oliver, Simone Buchanan, Maureen Edwards, Brett Climo, Esme Melville
Roles Mary Fitzpatrick
Rating60%
Squizzy Taylor (1982)
, 1h37Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Crime
Actors David Atkins, Jacki Weaver, Steve Bisley, Robert Hughes, Ernie Bourne, Esme Melville
Roles Woman in Street
Rating58%
Dimboola (1979)
, 1h29Directed by John Duigan
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bruce Spence, Esme Melville, Val Jellay, Max Cullen
Roles April
Rating55%
English journalist arrives in a small country town to observe a wedding.
Alvin Rides Again (1974)
, 1h29Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Graeme Blundell, Gus Mercurio, Abigail, Jon Finlayson, Chantal Contouri, Frank Wilson
Roles Cleaning Lady
Rating44%
Alvin Purple is unable to hold down a job because of his appeal to women. He and his friend Spike help a team of women cricketers win a match by playing in drag, and decide to spend their share of the prize money in a casino. Alvin discovers he is identical in appearance to gangster Balls McGee. When Balls is killed, Alvin is forced to take his place.
, 48minutesThemes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Tony Barry, Lesley Baker, Olivia Brown, Debra Lawrance, Lisa Aldenhoven
Roles Miss. Forbes
Rating80%
Based on Alan Marshall's three-part autobiography I Can Jump Puddles (1955), This is the Grass (1962) and In Mine Own Heart (1963), the film tells of Marshall's childhood growing up in rural Victoria during the turn of the century. Contracting polio soon after attending school, the story retells the obstacles he faced as a child in trying to overcome his disability. As an adult, he later encounters prejudice from his debilitating disease while looking for work in Melbourne.