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Screen cap from opening credits
Adaptation of
The Heroes
1960
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1988...
1988
The Heroes
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Film Details - TVS Films ; Network Ten , 1988
Producers:
Anthony Buckley.
Production Companies:
TVS Films (for Network Ten).
Director of Photography:
Paul Murphy.
Editors:
Wayne LeClos.
Production Designers:
Bernard Hides.
Music:
Peter Best.
Cast:
John Bach (Donald Davidson),
Briony Behets (Alice),
John Bonney (Rear Admiral),
Tom Considine (Captain Sam Carey),
Cameron Daddo (Joe Jones),
Jason Donovan (Happy Huston),
John Ewart (Bill Reynolds),
Don Halbert (Moss Berryman),
John Hargreaves (Ted Carse),
Wayne Scott Kermond (Boof Marsh),
Bill Kerr (Paddy McDowell),
Timothy Lyn (Taffy Morris),
Mark McAskill (Poppa Falls),
Christopher Morsley (Bob Page),
Paul Rhys (Ivan Lyon),
Tim Robertson (Colonel Mott),
Jeff Truman ('Cobber' Cain),
David Wenham (Horrie Young), and
Gus Mercurio (U.S. Navy Captain: uncredited).
Awards:
- Most Popular Actor in a Miniseries/Telemovie, Logie Award, 1990.
