Vincent Ball
Born: 1923-12-04 in Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia
Known For: Acting
Biography
Vincent Martin Ball OAM (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian-born retired character actor of radio, stage and screen, active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain and then his native Australia. He has also authored a number of books. He is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and TV movies, including A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Phar Lap, Muriel's Wedding and The Man Who Sued God. He appeared in numerous TV roles, primarily in cameo guest roles, but had recurring roles in serials like Rush, The Young Doctors, A Country Practice and Home and Away. Vincent Ball has also worked variously in theatre, including Shakespeare, with productions of Henry IV and Romeo and Juliet and a musical based on Charles Dickens famous novel Great Expectations. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
2003
- The Night We Called It a Day as Rex Hooper
2002
- Black and White as Chief Justice Napier
2001
- The Man Who Sued God as Cardinal
2000
- Grass Roots as Monty Chesney
1998
- All Saints as Bill Weiner
- 9 Across as Leo Sullivan
1997
- Paradise Road as Mr. Dickson
1995
- Blue Murder as Dr. Cumberland
1994
- Muriel's Wedding as Priest
- Sirens as Bishop of Sydney
1993
- Frauds as Judge
- Love In Limbo as Cyril Williams
1991
- The Private War of Lucinda Smith as Col. Foster
1988
- Home and Away as Tom Knight
1987
- Rafferty's Rules as Mathew
- The Year My Voice Broke as Headmaster
- Vietnam as Dave the Spook
1986
- The Flying Doctors as Warren
- Double Sculls as Stuart
1985
- Anzacs as Sir Rupert Barrington
- Call Me Mr. Brown as Captain Ritchie
1984
- Bodyline as Joseph Lyons (Prime Minister)
1983
- Phar Lap as Lachlan McKinnon
1982
- Deadline as Prime Minister
- The Highest Honour as Lieutenant Commander Hubert Marsham
1981
- Alison's Birthday as Dr. Jeremy Lyall
1980
- Breaker Morant as Col. Ian (Johnny) Hamilton
1979
1978
- The Irishman as Bailey Clark
1976
- The Sullivans as Admiral Spencer / Major Greenwell
- Deathcheaters
1974
- Rush as Supt. James Kendall
1971
- Not Tonight, Darling as Alex / Karen's lover
- Clinic Exclusive as Bernard Wilcox
1969
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Australian Soldier
1968
- Where Eagles Dare as Carpenter
- Nobody Runs Forever as Australian Policeman (uncredited)
1967
- Man in a Suitcase
- Follow That Camel as Ship's Officer
1963
- The Mouse on the Moon as Pilot
- Echo of Diana as Bill Vernon
1962
- Compact
- Carry On Cruising as Jenkins
1961
- Very Important Person as Higgins (uncredited)
- A Matter of WHO as Dr. Blake
- Middle Course as Cliff Wilton
- Highway to Battle as Ransome
1960
- Deadline Midnight
- Dead Lucky as Mike Billing
- Dentist in the Chair as Michaels
- Identity Unknown as Ken
- Feet of Clay as David Kyle
1959
- International Detective as Joplin
- Danger Within as Capt. Pat Foster
1958
- Blood of the Vampire as Dr. John Pierre
- Sea of Sand as Sgt Nesbitt
1957
- Robbery Under Arms as George Storefield
- Menace In The Night as Bob Meredith
1956
- The Battle of the River Plate as Barnes - HMS Achilles (uncredited)
- A Town Like Alice as Ben
- The Long Arm as P.C. at Hospital (uncredited)
- Reach for the Sky as Thelma's cousin (uncredited)
- The Baby and the Battleship as Second Sailor at Dance
- The Secret of the Forest as Mr. Lawson
1955
- John and Julie as Digger
- The Stolen Airliner as Flight Sergeant Watkins
- Blonde Blackmailer as Johnson
1954
- The Black Rider as Ted Lintott
- Dangerous Voyage as John Drew
- Devil's Point as Williams
1953
- The Drayton Case as Henley's Assistant
1951
- Encore as Young Husband
- Talk of a Million as Jack Murnahan
- London Entertains as David
1949
- The Interrupted Journey as the first workman
- Stop Press Girl as Hero in cinema sequence