Grant Tilly

Grant Tilly

Grant Leonard Ridgway Tilly (12 December 1937 – 10 April 2012) was a New Zealand stage, movie and television actor, set designer, teacher and artist.

  • Title: Grant Tilly
  • Popularity: 1.1244
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1937-12-12
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Grant Tilly Movies

  • 1986
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    The Frog, the Dog, and the Devil

    The Frog, the Dog, and the Devil

    7.2 1986 HD

    The short tells the story of a drunkard going through alcohol withdrawal, as personified by the Devil. Director Bob Stenhouse takes what could be a dark subject and makes it a funny madcap romp.

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  • 1993
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    Alex

    Alex

    4.4 1993 HD

    It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

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  • 1985
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    Dangerous Orphans

    Dangerous Orphans

    5 1985 HD

    Three orphaned boys - O'Malley, Rossi and Moir - become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plot revenge on the crooks who got away with shooting O'Malley's father. The crooks are doing very nicely importing heroin and laundering money. The boys begin by killing one of the crooks, stealing his indentification and cleaning out the guy's Swiss bank account. But their revenge does not stop here... And the American end of the operation is getting very curious.

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  • 1979
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    Middle Age Spread

    Middle Age Spread

    5 1979 HD

    Colin is the deputy principal of a city high school (Avondale College, Auckland) who reluctantly applies for the principal's job on the latter's retirement. Colin's wife, Elizabeth - who is losing interest in him -gives a dinner party. Among the guests is Judy, temporarily reconciled with her husband for the sake of the children. Colin - who has taken upon jogging to combat a spreading waistline - and Judy, gradually enter into an affair.

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  • 1978
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    Skin Deep

    Skin Deep

    4.5 1978 HD

    In small town Carlton Bob, the head of the Progressive Association, the local accountant and the boxing coach at the men-only gym, hires a masseuse from Auckland. Sandra is quite happy to give straight massage, but Bob pressures her to give "city massages". The wives are disturbed by her presence - perhaps with some justification. The climax occurs when accountant Phil, wants to leave his wife for Sandra; but when she rejects him, he smashes up the gym. The boys rally round to hush up Phil's indiscretion.

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  • 1978
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    Skin Deep

    Skin Deep

    4.5 1978 HD

    In small town Carlton Bob, the head of the Progressive Association, the local accountant and the boxing coach at the men-only gym, hires a masseuse from Auckland. Sandra is quite happy to give straight massage, but Bob pressures her to give "city massages". The wives are disturbed by her presence - perhaps with some justification. The climax occurs when accountant Phil, wants to leave his wife for Sandra; but when she rejects him, he smashes up the gym. The boys rally round to hush up Phil's indiscretion.

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  • 1978
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    Skin Deep

    Skin Deep

    4.5 1978 HD

    In small town Carlton Bob, the head of the Progressive Association, the local accountant and the boxing coach at the men-only gym, hires a masseuse from Auckland. Sandra is quite happy to give straight massage, but Bob pressures her to give "city massages". The wives are disturbed by her presence - perhaps with some justification. The climax occurs when accountant Phil, wants to leave his wife for Sandra; but when she rejects him, he smashes up the gym. The boys rally round to hush up Phil's indiscretion.

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  • 1980
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    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    6.5 1980 HD

    A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.

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  • 1984
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    Other Halves

    Other Halves

    7.5 1984 HD

    A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.

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  • 1990
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    The Returning

    The Returning

    6.2 1990 HD

    A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.

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  • 2007
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    30 Days of Night

    30 Days of Night

    6.436 2007 HD

    This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

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  • 1983
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    Nate and Hayes

    Nate and Hayes

    6 1983 HD

    Nathaniel Williamsen is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes, who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.

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  • 1981
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    Race for the Yankee Zephyr

    Race for the Yankee Zephyr

    5.8 1981 HD

    In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.

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  • 2010
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    Roof Rattling

    Roof Rattling

    1 2010 HD

    A young boy searching for fabled dirty magazines becomes trapped inside the house of an eccentric old man.

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  • 1974
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    Phone

    Phone

    1 1974 HD

    A primer on proper phone manners produced for the New Zealand Post Office.

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  • 1987
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    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    4.4 1987 HD

    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 cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects.

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  • 1982
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    Carry Me Back

    Carry Me Back

    6.5 1982 HD

    Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and the boys need to smuggle his body back to their farm and make it appear that he died there to satisfy a clause in his will or else they won't inherit the property.

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  • 1996
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    Brilliant Lies

    Brilliant Lies

    4.143 1996 HD

    Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.

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  • 2006
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    Who Laughs Last?

    Who Laughs Last?

    1 2006 HD

    This Artsville documentary profiles Roger Hall, New Zealand’s most successful playwright. Three decades after Hall's early play Middle Age Spread became a hit, the original cast return for 2006 follow-up Spreading Out. Director Shirley Horrocks explores the secrets behind Hall’s successful brand of comedy (which includes dozens of stage plays, and TV hit Gliding On), while closely exploring Middle Age Spread and Spreading Out. Alongside excerpts from both, there are interviews with John Clarke, Grant Tilly, Ginette McDonald on Hall's role in the birth of her character Lynn of Tawa, and Hall himself.

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  • 2002
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    A Place To Stand

    A Place To Stand

    1 2002 HD

    Actor Wi Kuki Kaa plays Tiare, a Vietnam War veteran who is dislocated by his experiences of war, and homelessness. He wanders the city streets, collecting ephemera in plastic bags. Nancy Brunning plays his daughter, who, with her own daughter, visits their reluctant koro to convince him to visit his ancestral home. The result is a moving story about a man jolted to find his turangawaewae, and the whanau that helps him get there. (NZ On Screen)

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  • 1988
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    Erua

    Erua

    1 1988 HD

    Erua tells the story of an intriguing friendship between artist Toss Woollaston and a young Māori boy Erua who modelled for him each Wednesday evening in Greymouth, in the early 60s. Woollaston had seen the boy playing "like one dark bead shaken in a tray of pale ones". The image made him curious to find what Erua was like, and to try to draw "that".

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  • 2024
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    The Wilsons: Sweet Dreams

    The Wilsons: Sweet Dreams

    1 2024 HD

    A short horror film.

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  • 1977
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    The Governor

    The Governor

    1 1977 HD

    Historical television series about Sir George Gray

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  • 1995
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    Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

    Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

    6.955 1995 HD

    The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

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