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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Pate (26 February 1920 – 1 September 2008) was an Australian actor, writer and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Pate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Down Rusty Down
1997
as Rusty (Voice)
An anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A gang of neutered men; fat, subdued and lazy, look out f...

Mary & Tim
1996
Author
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him ...

Official Denial
1993
as Wisdomkeeper
A UFO abductee joins a secret government agency in order to communicate with the sole surviving alien of a downed spacecraft.

Howling III: The Marsupials
1987
as President
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. I...

Death of a Soldier
1986
as Major General Sutherland
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the une...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1986
as Injun Joe (voice)
In the 1840s, two boys get mixed up with an Indian accused of stealing money and rescue a pretty girl who is trapped in a cave.

The Camel Boy
1984
as (voice)
Young Ali and his camel-driver grandfather Moussa take part in an expedition through the Australian Outback. Faced with prejudice, Moussa's knowledge ...

The Wild Duck
1984
as Wardle
Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

The Return of Captain Invincible
1983
as President
In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Austral...

Tim
1979
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she...

The Mango Tree
1977
Writer
Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of hig...

Mad Dog Morgan
1976
as Superintendent Winch
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
as Griggs
Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile n...

Little Jungle Boy
1970
He was born with the animals. He was taught by the animals. He lives with the animals. He talks to the animals. A living Nature Child. Touched by the ...

Hondo and the Apaches
1967
as Vittoro
Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.

Return of the Gunfighter
1967
as Frank Boone
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.

Mosby's Marauders
1967
as Captain Blazer
Willie, a young Confederate soldier, joins forces with the bold and boisterous Lt. John Singleton Mosby and his notorious band of Civil War raiders. B...

The Singing Nun
1966
as Mr. Arlien
Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father...

Brainstorm
1965
as Dr. Mills
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.

The Great Sioux Massacre
1965
as Sitting Bull
Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when a...

Major Dundee
1965
as Sierra Charriba
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...

Advance to the Rear
1964
as Thin Elk
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur...

McLintock!
1963
as Puma
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly ...

PT 109
1963
as Lt. Reginald Evans
Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese...

Drums of Africa
1963
as Antonio Viledo
David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack ...

California
1963
as Don Francisco Hernandez
Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841 is told through the story of doomed Mexican general Don Francisco Hernand...

Tower of London
1962
as Sir Ratcliffe
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

Beauty and the Beast
1962
as Bruno
A low-budget re-telling of the classic fairy tale.

Sergeants 3
1962
as Watanka
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.

Most Dangerous Man Alive
1961
Story
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervio...

Walk Like a Dragon
1960
as Rev. Will Allen
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purcha...

Zorro, the Avenger
1959
as Salvador Quintana
Masked crusader Zorro and his father, Don Alejandro, face off against mysterious despot The Eagle in a fight for control of old Spanish California.

Curse of the Undead
1959
as Drake Robey
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preac...

Westbound
1959
as Mace
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to ...

Ten Seconds to Hell
1959
as Narrator (voice)
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Green Mansions
1959
as Priest
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon...

Hong Kong Confidential
1958
as John Blanchard
An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.

Desert Hell
1958
as Ahitagel
This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the rebellious Arab tribe, the Tuaregs, who fight it out upon th...

The Tall Stranger
1957
as Charley
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-b...

The Oklahoman
1957
as Charlie Smith
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, no...

Something of Value
1957
as A Farmer - Joe Matson
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co...

7th Cavalry
1956
as Capt. Benteen
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.

Reprisal!
1956
as Bert Shipley
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched th...

Congo Crossing
1956
as Bart O'Connell
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Eur...

The Revolt of Mamie Stover
1956
as Harry Adkins
In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to st...

The Killer Is Loose
1956
as Detective Chris Gillespie
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam W...

The Court Jester
1955
as Sir Locksley
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

A Lawless Street
1955
as Harley Baskam
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

The Silver Chalice
1954
as Aaron Ben Joseph
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels...

Casino Royale
1954
as Clarence Leiter
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

King Richard and the Crusaders
1954
as Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land i...

Secret of the Incas
1954
as Pachacutec
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.

The Royal African Rifles
1953
as Cunningham
A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He ...

Escape from Fort Bravo
1953
Story
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

El Alaméin
1953
as Sgt. McQueen
A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

Hondo
1953
as Vittorio
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Houdini
1953
as Dooley
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackl...

The Maze
1953
as William
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Ger...

Julius Caesar
1953
as Flavius
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.

The Desert Rats
1953
as Capt. Currie (uncredited)
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important p...

Scandal at Scourie
1953
as Rev. Williams
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a...

Rogue's March
1953
as Crane
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.

Target Hong Kong
1953
as Dockery Pete Gresham
Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.

The Black Castle
1952
as Count Ernst von Melcher
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

Face to Face
1952
as Leggatt
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a...

5 Fingers
1952
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Ten Tall Men
1951
as Browning
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's...

Thunder on the Hill
1951
as Willie Pentridge
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becomin...

The Strange Door
1951
as Talon
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

Bitter Springs
1950
as Trooper
A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.
Sons of Matthew
1949
as Shane O'Riordan
The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.

40,000 Horsemen
1940
as Arab Carpet Seller / Arab Customer / Sikh Policeman
Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the h...