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Vivean Gray

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Birth name Jean Vivra Gray.
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 july 1924 at Cleethorpes (United-kingdom)
Death 29 july 2016 (at 92 years)

Vivean Gray (born Jean Vivra Gray; 20 July 1924) is a British actress who found her niche playing gossipy characters in Australian television series/soap operas. She was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, as one of four to a father who ran a fish and chip establishment but moved to Australia in 1952 after having trouble finding acting opportunities. She initially wanted to become jazz pianist, but decided to choose acting and had roles in Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, and as mathematics teacher Miss McGraw in Peter Weir's film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
Gray was honoured with her image on an Australia Post postage stamp in 1995.

Usually with

Peter Weir
Peter Weir
(2 films)
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
(3 films)
John Jarratt
John Jarratt
(2 films)
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd
(2 films)
Judy Morris
Judy Morris
(2 films)
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Filmography of Vivean Gray (7 films)

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Actress

Dread
Dread (2009)
, 1h48
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Paloma Faith, Laura Donnelly, Vivean Gray, Elissa Dowling
Rating55% 2.799542.799542.799542.799542.79954
At a small college, Quaid and his friend Stephen do a "fear study" as a school project, recording people talking about their greatest fears. Quaid however is quite insane and wants to take the fear to 'the next level'. Quaid had seen his parents killed by an axe murderer as a child; this is his greatest fear, and he wants to learn what makes others afraid and what it takes for them to overcome their fear. Stephen's brother had died while drunk-driving, and Stephen wonders if his brother would still be alive if he had driven instead.
Anzacs (TV series)
Themes Political films
Actors Bill Kerr, Tony Bonner, Shane Briant, Jim Holt, Wayne Jarratt, Vincent Ball
Roles Matron
Rating79% 3.9889753.9889753.9889753.9889753.988975
1914. Western District of Victoria (Australia). Martin Barrington, the son of a wealthy British-born land-owner Sir Rupert Barrington (who still thought of himself as a "British") and his wife Lady Thea Barrington, returns home early from university studies with plans to move north to the family's Queensland property in a bid to up the quality of their livestock. His best friend, stockman Dick Baker, initially agrees to move with him, but later wants to enlist to fight in the Great War which has just begun in Europe, and Martin agrees to follow (after turning down a commission as 2nd lieutenant in his father's old British rifle regiment), joined by Dick's sister (and Martin's childhood sweetheart) Kate, who will become an army nurse. The two friends enlist and they form part of the 8th Battalion, 3rd platoon led by former schoolteacher and now Lieutenant Harold Armstrong and former football star and now Sargeant Tom McArthur. Other members of the platoon include quiet and studious Roly Collins, Englishman Bill Harris, cynical, wise-cracking drover Pat Cleary and the Danish-born Johansen brothers. Sgt McArthur soon becomes unpopular with his short temper and aggressive manner, but, whilst drunk one night off-duty, he tells of his miserable childhood growing up with an alcoholic father who had been crippled in the Boer War.
The Last Wave, 1h46
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Vivean Gray, Wallas Eaton, Greg Rowe
Roles Dr. Whitburn
Rating68% 3.4477653.4477653.4477653.4477653.447765
The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s: a rural school in the desert, the main street of an outback town, a traffic jam in the city, all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. Only the local Aboriginal people seem to recognize the cosmological significance of these weather phenomena.
The Great MacArthy, 1h30
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Kate Fitzpatrick, Barry Humphries, Chris Haywood, Bruce Spence
Roles Mrs. Thompson
Rating53% 2.6677152.6677152.6677152.6677152.667715
MacArthy is a county football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city. The Club Chairman, Colonel Ball-Miller, give MacArthy a job in one of his companies and makes him attend night school. He is seduced by his English teacher, Miss Russell, and has an affair with Ball-Miller's daughter, Andrea.
Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1h55
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about suicide, Transport films
Actors Anne-Louise Lambert, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, John Jarratt
Roles Miss Greta McCraw
Rating73% 3.69793.69793.69793.69793.6979
At Appleyard College, a girls' private school, near the town of Woodend, Victoria, Australia, the students are dressing on the morning of St. Valentine's Day, 1900. Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert), Irma (Karen Robson), Marion (Jane Vallis), Rosamund (Ingrid Mason), waifish Sara (Margaret Nelson), and outsider Edith (Christine Schuler) read poetry and Valentine's Day cards.
Libido
Libido (1973)
, 1h58
Directed by Tim Burstall, Fred Schepisi
Genres Drama
Actors Judy Morris, Jack Thompson, Arthur Dignam, Robyn Nevin, John Williams, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Roles Elderly Nun (segment "The Priest")
Rating59% 2.950082.950082.950082.950082.95008
The four segments of the film average about 30 minutes in length and are presented in the following order.
A City's Child, 1h20
Genres Drama
Actors Sean Scully, Monica Maughan, Vivean Gray
Roles First Neighbor
Rating64% 3.222033.222033.222033.222033.22203
A spinster whose invalid mother dies starts drifting into a fantasy world. She starts collecting dolls and meets a young man who may or may not be real. The two of them become lovers.