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Michael Pate

Michael Pate

Michael Pate (26 February 1920 – 1 September 2008) was an Australian actor, writer and director.

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Movies Starring Michael Pate (70)

The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel (2014)

The Big Picture details the careers Charles and Elsa Chauvel – known as Australia's most enduring and successful filmmakers, having made nine feature films between 1926 and 1955. The Chauvels were innovators and pioneers, constantly testing the boundari ...

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Down Rusty Down (1997)

An anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A gang of neutered men; fat, subdued and lazy, look out for their younger 'pup'- Rusty (Noah Taylor) who is always active and mischievous. ...

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Official Denial (1993)

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

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Howling III: The Marsupials (1987)

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. Is this a dangerous combination? ...

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Death of a Soldier (1986)

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 uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess ...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1986)

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. ...

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The Camel Boy (1984)

Young Ali and his camel-driver grandfather Moussa take part in an expedition through the Australian Outback. Faced with prejudice, Moussa's knowledge and the hardiness of his camels in the punishing conditions quickly prove vital to both the success of the ...

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The Wild Duck (1984)

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

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The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)

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 Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come b ...

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Armageddon (1982)

Armageddon explores centuries of predictions that seem to converge on a single message—the end of human history may be near. From Saint Malachy's 12th-century vision foretelling every Pope, to Nostradamus's chilling prophecies of war and the rise of thre ...

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Duet for Four (1982)

A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business. ...

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Mad Dog Morgan (1976)

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s. ...

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Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones (1971)

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 natives. ...

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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 Hand of God. ...

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Hondo and the Apaches (1967)

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

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Return of the Gunfighter (1967)

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

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Mosby's Marauders (1967)

Willie, a young Confederate soldier, joins forces with the bold and boisterous Lt. John Singleton Mosby and his notorious band of Civil War raiders. Befriended by a Yankee and aided by his beautiful cousin Oralee, Willie learns the power of love and war as ...

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The Singing Nun (1966)

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 Clementi hears Sister Ann's uplifting singing style, he takes her to a talent contest. Sister Ann is sign ...

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Brainstorm (1965)

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

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The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)

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 Senator Blaine convinces him to run for President, Custer decides to upstage General Terry at Little Big ...

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Major Dundee (1965)

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas. ...

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Advance to the Rear (1964)

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag grou ...

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McLintock! (1963)

Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. ...

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PT 109 (1963)

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 destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the ...

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Drums of Africa (1963)

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 Cuortemayn, reputedly the best guide available, to take them there. Cuortemayn refuses as he doesn't care ...

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California (1963)

Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841 is told through the story of doomed Mexican general Don Francisco Hernandez, who pits his troops against a tenacious team of revolutionaries led by his half brother, Don Michael O ...

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Tower of London (1962)

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England. ...

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Beauty and the Beast (1962)

Curse turns a handsome prince into a Beast at night. A princess tries to help him, while his enemies plot to take his throne. ...

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Sergeants 3 (1962)

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

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Walk Like a Dragon (1960)

California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Lin ...

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Curse of the Undead (1959)

A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan ...

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Zorro, the Avenger (1959)

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

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Westbound (1959)

As the Civil War spills our nation's blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost. ...

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Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

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

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Green Mansions (1959)

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. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jun ...

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Hong Kong Confidential (1958)

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

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Desert Hell (1958)

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 the blistering Sahara sands. Just before the Legionnaires embark upon their dangerous mission, the commander ...

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The Tall Stranger (1957)

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-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders. ...

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The Oklahoman (1957)

After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his ...

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Something of Value (1957)

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devote ...

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7th Cavalry (1956)

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

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Reprisal! (1956)

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 three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to g ...

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Congo Crossing (1956)

Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit ma ...

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The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

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 start a new life. ...

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The Killer Is Loose (1956)

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 Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole ...

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The Court Jester (1955)

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. ...

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A Lawless Street (1955)

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

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The Silver Chalice (1954)

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 to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to ...

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Casino Royale (1954)

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

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King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

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 in the time of King Richard the Lionheart. ...

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Secret of the Incas (1954)

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

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The Royal African Rifles (1953)

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 poses as a hunter and follows a trail that leads him to Cunningham, a trader, who intends to sell the rifl ...

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El Alaméin (1953)

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

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Hondo (1953)

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

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Houdini (1953)

By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails. ...

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The Maze (1953)

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 Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made fro ...

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Julius Caesar (1953)

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony. ...

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Scandal at Scourie (1953)

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 stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no ...

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The Desert Rats (1953)

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the comm ...

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Rogue's March (1953)

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

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Target Hong Kong (1953)

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

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Face to Face (1952)

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 short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust ...

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The Black Castle (1952)

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

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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. ...

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The Strange Door (1951)

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

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Ten Tall Men (1951)

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 outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attac ...

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Thunder on the Hill (1951)

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 becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer ...

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Bitter Springs (1950)

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash. ...

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Sons of Matthew (1949)

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

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Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)

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 heroic tales of mateship during the Great War. ...

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Movies Made By Michael Pate (5)

Mary & Tim (1996)

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 under her wing. ...

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Tim (1979)

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 had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence ...

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The Mango Tree (1977)

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 high school, was brought up by his grandmother. Grandma Carr is known and loved by all in the town, and does ...

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Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)

An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail. ...

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Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)

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

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