Don Barker

Don Barker

Don Barker (born 8 March 1940) is an Australian actor, who has appeared in films, television theatre and radio, he best known for his role in the police procedural series Homicide as Detective Sargeant Harry White, and briefly in the prison drama Prisoner as social worker Bill Jackson.

  • Title: Don Barker
  • Popularity: 0.0746
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1940-03-08
  • Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Don Barker Movies

  • 1986
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    Playing Beatie Bow

    Playing Beatie Bow

    4 1986 HD

    Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough sixteen year old growing up in todays Sydney. An intriguing chain of events finds Abigail, through some eerie time shift, transported back one hundred years after watching some children playing a scary game called Beatie Bow.

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  • 1986
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    Fair Game

    Fair Game

    5.605 1986 HD

    A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little "fun" with her, too. Turns out that they may get a bit more "fun" than they bargained for.

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  • 1999
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    In a Savage Land

    In a Savage Land

    4.909 1999 HD

    Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.

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  • 1989
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    A Sting in the Tail

    A Sting in the Tail

    1 1989 HD

    Diane Lane is intelligent and ambitious. When she is elected to Parliament her idealism and commitment give her unpopular party a boost. Everyone, including the Prime Minister, is eager to share her limelight. Diane’s ambition is not satisfied with her new position. Diane’s married lover, Barry Robbins, the Minister for Health, is unaware of Diane’s ultimate plan. Her closest friend, Louise Parker, a political journalist, is a bit more realistic about what women can achieve; she too has a higher goal in mind.

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  • 1978
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    Taxi!

    Taxi!

    3.5 1978 HD

    Taxi driver Terry Dean picks up a sheila and they're run off the road, she takes off leaving her bag behind and he goes on an adventure trying to track her down concerned about her. An Aussie film noir.

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  • 1995
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    The Life of Harry Dare

    The Life of Harry Dare

    1 1995 HD

    Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?

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  • 1987
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    The Time Guardian

    The Time Guardian

    4.92 1987 HD

    In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to our time to save humanity...

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  • 2002
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    Rabbit-Proof Fence

    Rabbit-Proof Fence

    6.974 2002 HD

    In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

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  • 1981
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    Gallipoli

    Gallipoli

    7 1981 HD

    Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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  • 1994
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    The Battlers

    The Battlers

    1 1994 HD

    Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

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  • 2000
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    Cut

    Cut

    4.47 2000 HD

    A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...

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  • 1985
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    Robbery Under Arms

    Robbery Under Arms

    6.4 1985 HD

    Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.

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  • 2002
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    Black and White

    Black and White

    5.885 2002 HD

    Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1996
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    Sun on the Stubble

    Sun on the Stubble

    9 1996 HD

    Various stories of Bruno and his German Australian family, living in early 1930s rural South Australia.

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.3 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.3 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.

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  • 1987
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    The Far Country

    The Far Country

    1 1987 HD

    Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

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  • 1987
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    Rafferty's Rules

    Rafferty's Rules

    6 1987 HD

    Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.

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  • 2001
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    McLeod's Daughters

    McLeod's Daughters

    7.2 2001 HD

    When Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited.

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