Colin Friels

Colin Friels

1952-09-25 Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK 56 Credits

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Interceptor

Interceptor

2022

as Frank Collins

6.1
Acting

A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threat...

The Crossing

The Crossing

2016

as The Captain

Acting

A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm.

Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life

Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life

2015

as Self

5.3
Acting

The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emig...

Schapelle

Schapelle

2014

as Mick Corby

3.9
Acting

A 27-year-old beauty school dropout, Schapelle, was arrested at Bali airport with 4.2kg of marijuana. At first, her arrest was barely noticed by the m...

The Turning

The Turning

2013

as Narrator (voice)

5.6
Acting

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winni...

Jack Irish: Bad Debts

Jack Irish: Bad Debts

2012

as Garth Bruce

6.4
Acting

Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investi...

Mabo

Mabo

2012

as Justice Moynihan

7.6
Acting

The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge t...

The Eye of the Storm

The Eye of the Storm

2011

as Athol Shreve

5.0
Acting

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir B...

A Heartbeat Away

A Heartbeat Away

2011

as Mayor Riddick

4.3
Acting

A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks be...

Matching Jack

Matching Jack

2010

as Professor Nelson

6.1
Acting

A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is tur...

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Tomorrow, When the War Began

2010

as Dr. Clements

6.2
Acting

Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return,...

Lest We Forget

2010

as Sam

Acting
Blind Company

Blind Company

2009

as Geoff Brewster

Acting

Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on the bea...

The Informant

The Informant

2008

as Doug Lamont (as Colin Friel)

6.0
Acting

McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, wi...

Australia: Land of Parrots

Australia: Land of Parrots

2008

as Narrator

6.5
Acting

Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots. Multi-award...

BlackJack: Ghosts

BlackJack: Ghosts

2007

as Jack Kempson

7.0
Acting

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for th...

BlackJack: At the Gates

BlackJack: At the Gates

2006

as Jack Kempson

7.0
Acting

Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an ev...

BlackJack: Dead Memory

BlackJack: Dead Memory

2006

as Jack Kempson

4.0
Acting

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's ...

BlackJack: Ace Point Game

BlackJack: Ace Point Game

2006

as Jack Kempson

5.1
Acting

After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted a...

The Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation

2006

as Olsen

5.2
Acting

An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

Solo

Solo

2006

as Jack Barrett

5.5
Acting

Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm o...

BlackJack: In the Money

BlackJack: In the Money

2005

as Jack Kempson

5.8
Acting

Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some p...

The Illustrated Family Doctor

The Illustrated Family Doctor

2005

as Ray Gill

6.0
Acting

Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be fa...

BlackJack: Sweet Science

BlackJack: Sweet Science

2004

as Jack Kempson

5.7
Acting

Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.

Tom White

Tom White

2004

as Tom White

4.9
Acting

Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not every...

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

2004

as Nick Gurdin

5.3
Acting

Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.

Max's Dreaming

2003

as Mark Bryce

Acting

A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both have...

BlackJack

BlackJack

2003

as Jack Kempson

7.0
Acting

Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral ...

Black and White

Black and White

2002

as Father Tom Dixon

5.6
Acting

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation M...

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

2001

as George Temple

6.7
Acting

As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts ...

My Husband, My Killer

2001

as Bob Inkster

4.0
Acting

Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.

The Man Who Sued God

The Man Who Sued God

2001

as David Myers

6.4
Acting

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance m...

The Farm

The Farm

2000

as Tom Cooper

Acting

After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be rep...

Dark City

Dark City

1998

as Det. Eddie Walenski

7.3
Acting

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...

Mr. Reliable

Mr. Reliable

1996

as Wally Mellish

6.2
Acting

All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officer...

Cosi

Cosi

1996

as Errol

6.3
Acting

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst...

Back of Beyond

Back of Beyond

1995

as Connor

5.5
Acting

A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.

Angel Baby

Angel Baby

1995

as Morris Goodman

6.6
Acting

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

A Good Man in Africa

A Good Man in Africa

1994

as Morgan Leafy, 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner

5.1
Acting

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A...

The Nostradamus Kid

The Nostradamus Kid

1993

as American Preacher

4.6
Acting

When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.

Dingo

Dingo

1991

as John Anderson

5.4
Acting

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown afte...

Class Action

Class Action

1991

as Michael Grazier

6.3
Acting

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...

Weekend with Kate

Weekend with Kate

1990

as Richard Muir

1.0
Acting

This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women i...

Darkman

Darkman

1990

as Louis Strack Jr.

6.4
Acting

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been bur...

Grievous Bodily Harm

Grievous Bodily Harm

1988

as Tom Stewart

4.7
Acting

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Ground Zero

Ground Zero

1987

as Harvey Denton

6.3
Acting

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and kill...

High Tide

High Tide

1987

as Mick

6.6
Acting

A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, t...

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

1987

as Man

4.4
Acting

A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cros...

Kangaroo

Kangaroo

1986

as Richard Somers

6.0
Acting

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the...

Malcolm

Malcolm

1986

as Malcolm Hughes

6.6
Acting

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...

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

1985

as Phillipe

6.0
Acting

Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him ...

The Coolangatta Gold

The Coolangatta Gold

1984

as Adam Lucas

5.0
Acting

Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is bur...

Buddies

Buddies

1983

as Mike

5.5
Acting

Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly

Monkey Grip

Monkey Grip

1982

as Javo

5.3
Acting

Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when sh...

Hoodwink

Hoodwink

1981

4.4
Acting

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...

Underbelly: Vanishing Act

Underbelly: Vanishing Act

N/A

as George K

Acting

Inspired by the real-life mystery that captivated the nation, Underbelly: Vanishing Act tells the story of the bizarre disappearance of Melissa Caddic...