Michael Pate

Michael Pate

1920-02-26 Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia 72 Credits

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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.

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Down Rusty Down

Down Rusty Down

1997

as Rusty (Voice)

7.5
Acting

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

Mary & Tim

1996

Author

5.5

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

Official Denial

1993

as Wisdomkeeper

5.2
Acting

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

Howling III: The Marsupials

1987

as President

4.5
Acting

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

Death of a Soldier

1986

as Major General Sutherland

1.5
Acting

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1986

as Injun Joe (voice)

8.0
Acting

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

The Camel Boy

1984

as (voice)

4.8
Acting

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

The Wild Duck

1984

as Wardle

6.7
Acting

Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

The Return of Captain Invincible

The Return of Captain Invincible

1983

as President

6.2
Acting

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

Tim

1979

Director, Producer, Screenplay

6.3
Directing Producing Writing

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

The Mango Tree

1977

Writer

Writing

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

Mad Dog Morgan

1976

as Superintendent Winch

6.0
Acting

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

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones

1971

as Griggs

Acting

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

Little Jungle Boy

1970

Acting

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

Hondo and the Apaches

1967

as Vittoro

6.8
Acting

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

Return of the Gunfighter

Return of the Gunfighter

1967

as Frank Boone

6.1
Acting

A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.

Mosby's Marauders

Mosby's Marauders

1967

as Captain Blazer

6.9
Acting

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

The Singing Nun

1966

as Mr. Arlien

5.7
Acting

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

Brainstorm

1965

as Dr. Mills

6.2
Acting

Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.

The Great Sioux Massacre

The Great Sioux Massacre

1965

as Sitting Bull

4.2
Acting

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

Major Dundee

1965

as Sierra Charriba

6.7
Acting

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

Advance to the Rear

1964

as Thin Elk

5.0
Acting

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur...

McLintock!

McLintock!

1963

as Puma

6.6
Acting

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

PT 109

PT 109

1963

as Lt. Reginald Evans

5.9
Acting

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

Drums of Africa

1963

as Antonio Viledo

2.3
Acting

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

California

1963

as Don Francisco Hernandez

3.0
Acting

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

Tower of London

1962

as Sir Ratcliffe

6.0
Acting

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

Beauty and the Beast

1962

as Bruno

4.2
Acting

A low-budget re-telling of the classic fairy tale.

Sergeants 3

Sergeants 3

1962

as Watanka

5.4
Acting

Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.

Most Dangerous Man Alive

Most Dangerous Man Alive

1961

Story

4.9
Writing

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

Walk Like a Dragon

1960

as Rev. Will Allen

5.0
Acting

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

Zorro, the Avenger

1959

as Salvador Quintana

9.0
Acting

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

Curse of the Undead

1959

as Drake Robey

5.4
Acting

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

Westbound

1959

as Mace

6.1
Acting

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

Ten Seconds to Hell

1959

as Narrator (voice)

6.1
Acting

Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Green Mansions

Green Mansions

1959

as Priest

6.0
Acting

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

Hong Kong Confidential

1958

as John Blanchard

5.1
Acting

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

Desert Hell

Desert Hell

1958

as Ahitagel

Acting

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

The Tall Stranger

1957

as Charley

6.5
Acting

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

The Oklahoman

1957

as Charlie Smith

5.6
Acting

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

Something of Value

1957

as A Farmer - Joe Matson

5.5
Acting

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

7th Cavalry

1956

as Capt. Benteen

5.7
Acting

An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.

Reprisal!

Reprisal!

1956

as Bert Shipley

7.2
Acting

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

Congo Crossing

1956

as Bart O'Connell

5.2
Acting

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

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

1956

as Harry Adkins

6.5
Acting

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

The Killer Is Loose

1956

as Detective Chris Gillespie

6.6
Acting

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

The Court Jester

1955

as Sir Locksley

7.3
Acting

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

A Lawless Street

1955

as Harley Baskam

5.4
Acting

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

The Silver Chalice

The Silver Chalice

1954

as Aaron Ben Joseph

4.4
Acting

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

Casino Royale

1954

as Clarence Leiter

5.0
Acting

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

King Richard and the Crusaders

King Richard and the Crusaders

1954

as Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat

6.3
Acting

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

Secret of the Incas

1954

as Pachacutec

5.8
Acting

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

The Royal African Rifles

The Royal African Rifles

1953

as Cunningham

Acting

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

Escape from Fort Bravo

1953

Story

6.2
Writing

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

El Alaméin

El Alaméin

1953

as Sgt. McQueen

Acting

A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

Hondo

Hondo

1953

as Vittorio

6.6
Acting

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

Houdini

Houdini

1953

as Dooley

6.5
Acting

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

The Maze

The Maze

1953

as William

5.7
Acting

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

Julius Caesar

1953

as Flavius

7.1
Acting

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

The Desert Rats

1953

as Capt. Currie (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

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

Scandal at Scourie

1953

as Rev. Williams

6.7
Acting

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

Rogue's March

1953

as Crane

5.8
Acting

After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.

Target Hong Kong

Target Hong Kong

1953

as Dockery Pete Gresham

5.3
Acting

Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.

The Black Castle

The Black Castle

1952

as Count Ernst von Melcher

6.4
Acting

A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

Face to Face

Face to Face

1952

as Leggatt

5.7
Acting

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

5 Fingers

1952

7.6
Acting

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

Ten Tall Men

1951

as Browning

6.4
Acting

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

Thunder on the Hill

1951

as Willie Pentridge

6.5
Acting

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

The Strange Door

1951

as Talon

6.2
Acting

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

Bitter Springs

Bitter Springs

1950

as Trooper

6.4
Acting

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

5.6
Acting

The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.

40,000 Horsemen

40,000 Horsemen

1940

as Arab Carpet Seller / Arab Customer / Sikh Policeman

5.6
Acting

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...