Raising the flag for Bud
The Inside Story
We celebrate the career of a late, great Aussie this Australia Day weekend - Charles 'Bud' Tingwell.
ACMI's Australian Perspectives program presents a mini-retrospective of Tingwell's career this Saturday to Tuesday.
"Bud was a great champion of Australian productions and also one of the finest Australian talents so we thought it only fitting to celebrate his career on Australia Day," says film programmer James Nolen.
Beginning with Windrider (1986), starring Nicole Kidman opposite surfer-dude Tom Burlinson, the surf flick rounds out our summer series of 'surf on celluloid' and kicks off the tribute.
Terry Regan's Always Another Dawn (1948) was Tingwell's first major role and the one that established him as a serious actor. The film celebrates the Australian Navy's role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and its contribution to the Allied victory in World War II, and became one of many films Tingwell would complete about the Australian experience of war.
Regarded as a classic anti-war movie, Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (1980) remains one of Australia's most acclaimed films. Cited as one of his seminal roles (he played Lieutenant Colonel Denny), Tingwell earnt an AFI nomination for Best Supporting Actor and an Oscar®-nomination. This classic Australian story made an indelible mark on our film history and with an all-star cast including Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown and John Waters, it's the perfect film for the Australia Day weekend.
From war stories to drama, romance to comedy (who could forget his return to film as Lawrence Hammill QC in The Castle - fabulous stuff), Bud could play them all. In an excursion into new territory, Tingwell plays uncle to Andrew Curry's astrophysics student in supernatural thriller The Inside Story (2002). He also lent his distinctive voice to films such as the first Thunderbirds feature, Thunderbirds are GO (1966).
One of Tingwell's last big screen appearances was in Three Blind Mice (2008) - also Matthew Newton's directorial debut - the story of three Australian naval officers spending one last riotous night in Sydney before heading off to the war in Iraq.
With almost 60 years in the spotlight and over 150 performance credits to his name, Tingwell is a legend of the Australian screen. He passed away in May 2009 and ACMI present this special tribute to his career, appropriately, for Australia Day.
All sessions $8. For more information, click here.
Published Friday, 22 January 2010
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