Colin Friels
Popularity:0.6604
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1952-09-25
Place of Birth:Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Homepage:https://shanahan.com.au/client/colin-friels/
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Dark City (1998)
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...

Angel Baby (1995)
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

Tom White (2004)
Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not...

The Informant (2008)
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in...

Darkman (1990)
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been...

The Man Who Sued God (2001)
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...

Malcolm (1986)
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...

A Good Man in Africa (1994)
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...

The Illustrated Family Doctor (2005)
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...

Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
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...

Hoodwink (1981)
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...

Dingo (1991)
Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown...

The Turning (2013)
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi...

BlackJack: In the Money (2005)
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...

BlackJack: Sweet Science (2004)
Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.

Cosi (1996)
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney...

A Heartbeat Away (2011)
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...

The Crossing (2016)
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.

Solo (2006)
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...

Monkey Grip (1982)
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...

Ground Zero (1987)
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and...

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987)
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...

Buddies (1983)
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

Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
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.

Mabo (2012)
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...

Interceptor (2022)
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...

The Coolangatta Gold (1984)
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...

Back of Beyond (1995)
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.

Schapelle (2014)
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...

My Husband, My Killer (2001)
Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.

Weekend with Kate (1990)
This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women...

The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.

Mr. Reliable (1996)
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...

Max's Dreaming (2003)
A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both...

Black and White (2002)
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation...

Australia: Land of Parrots (2008)
Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots....

The Eye of the Storm (2011)
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...

The Book of Revelation (2006)
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

Class Action (1991)
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie...

The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.

Matching Jack (2010)
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...

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001)
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...

High Tide (1987)
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,...

BlackJack: Ace Point Game (2006)
After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted...

Blind Company (2009)
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 Man in the Iron Mask (1985)
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 Farm (2000)
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...

Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012)
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...

Kangaroo (1986)
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...

BlackJack (2003)
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...

BlackJack: Dead Memory (2006)
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: At the Gates (2006)
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...

BlackJack: Ghosts (2007)
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...

Underbelly: Vanishing Act (1970)
Inspired by the real-life mystery that captivated the nation, Underbelly: Vanishing Act tells the story of the bizarre disappearance of Melissa...

Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life (2015)
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...

Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th...

Bastard Boys (2007)
Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The...

Water Rats (1996)
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

Wakefield (2021)
Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one...

Stark (1993)
Stark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series,...

BlackJack (2003)
BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels. The movies began...

Gangs of Oz (2009)
Gangs of Oz is an Australian television documentary series on the Seven Network narrated by actor Colin Friels. The show looks at real stories of...

Air Australia (2007)
Australia's aviation history is a saga of daring feats, can-do attitude, pig-headed visionaries, iron-fisted politicians and warring pilots; of...

Total Control (2019)
A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral.

The Secret Daughter (2016)
A part-time country pub singer has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier which triggers a series of events that will change her life forever....

Underbelly: Vanishing Act (2022)
The story of Melissa Caddick, a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients.

Police Rescue (1991)
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work...

The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
The story of Natalie Wood and how she began acting at a young age, making the transition from a child actress to a serious actress, dating top...

For the Term of His Natural Life (1983)
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where...

Mystery Road (2018)
When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma...

Sydney Sailboat (2015)
Young Sydney Sailboat explores the waters of Bubble Bath Bay, going on adventures with his nautical friends, including best bud Zip the Water Taxi....

DNA Nation (2016)
Who are we? And where do we come from? Australia's greatest Olympian Ian Thorpe, iconic Indigenous actor Ernie Dingo, and TV presenter and Queen of...

Halifax f.p. (1994)
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane...

Killing Time (2011)
Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true...