John Hargreaves
John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 - 8 January 1996) was an Australian film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions. Hargreaves had roles in The Removalists (1975), Don's Party (1976), The Odd Angry Shot (1979), and Malcolm (1986). He played the love interest of Nicole Kidman's character in Emerald City (1988).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.485 |
| Birthday | 1945-11-28 |
| Place of Birth | Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia |
| Also Known As |
1986
Malcolm
6.526/39
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail...
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Malcolm
1979
The Odd Angry Shot
6.1/25
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp...
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The Odd Angry Shot
1994
Country Life
6.4/5
Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-...
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Country Life
1976
Don's Party
5.5/24
On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay o...
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Don's Party
1979
Long Weekend
6.101/164
When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
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Long Weekend
1988
Emerald City
5.636/11
A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williams...
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Emerald City
1987
Comrades
7/16
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign t...
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Comrades
1988
The Heroes
4.6/4
Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the...
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The Heroes
1981
Hoodwink
4.4/5
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves star...
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Hoodwink
1976
Deathcheaters
5.8/9
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
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Deathcheaters
1986
Sky Pirates
5/9
Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial k...
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Sky Pirates
1980
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
5/1
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1990
Sweet Revenge
6/2
An attorney plays match-maker for her ex-husband, by hiring an actress to seduce him - all in an attempt to try and rid herself of alimony payments.
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Sweet Revenge
1984
My First Wife
4.5/4
My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer the...
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My First Wife
1975
The Removalists
3/1
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to esca...
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The Removalists
1988
Boundaries of the Heart
0/0
A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at h...
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Boundaries of the Heart
1993
Blackfellas
6/1
Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s...
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Blackfellas
1987
The Place at the Coast
0/0
Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new...
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The Place at the Coast
1994
No Worries
6/1
A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
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No Worries
1981
The Killing of Angel Street
6.7/6
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on...
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The Killing of Angel Street
1996
Lust and Revenge
2/1
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's...
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Lust and Revenge
1983
Careful, He Might Hear You
6.1/12
Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest e...
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Careful, He Might Hear You
1992
Rome Roméo
0/0
David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with...
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Rome Roméo
1978
Little Boy Lost
5/1
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers,...
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Little Boy Lost
1976
Mad Dog Morgan
6/39
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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Mad Dog Morgan
1987
Cry Freedom
7.03/197
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
1995
Hotel Sorrento
7.2/7
Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just wr...
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Hotel Sorrento
1986
Double Sculls
0/0
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
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Double Sculls
1983
The Dismissal
0/0
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-Genera...
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The Dismissal
1988
The Lizard King
0/0
A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.
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The Lizard King
1984
The Great Gold Swindle
0/0
The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.
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