Charles "Bud" Tingwell Movies
Australian-born character actor, onscreen from the '40s. ~ All Movie Guide- 1954
Popular Australian film star Chips Rafferty heads the cast of King of Coral Sea. His character name, in fact, is King, Ted King to be exact. Our hero lives and works on Thursday island, center of Australia's pearling industry. The pearl-diving element of the story is forgotten as King confronts a gang of crooks who are busily smuggling migrant workers onto the island. The supporting cast is largely made up of local Australian stage and radio celebrities, whose fame meant little to American audiences. The one tangible selling angle of King of Coral Sea is its superb location photography. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Chips Rafferty, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, (more)
The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with laudatory results. He is briefly captured by the Nazis and questioned by General Rommel himself, but Burton escapes to lead his surviving troops to safety. James Mason, who portrayed Rommel in The Desert Fox, makes a guest appearance in the same role in The Desert Rats. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Burton, Robert Newton, (more)
- 1952
Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler Richard Connor (Peter Lawford) is his long-lost son. Connor and his partner-in-crime Gamble (Richard Boone) go along with the gag, convincing McGuire's daughter Dell (Maureen O'Hara) that they've arrived to help the old man save his livestock, when in fact they're planning a major swindle. The scheme goes awry when Connor falls genuinely in love with Dell. The arrival of mounted policeman Leonard (Chips Rafferty) sets the ball rolling for an onslaught of violence, renunciation and redemption. Vividly filmed on location in Australia, Kangaroo was remade in Africa as The Jackals in 1967. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, (more)
- 1950
Taking time out from his duties as head of Australia's Embassy Pictures, Tom O. MacCreadle served as director of Into the Straight. The film concentrates on a horse-raiser who becomes involved with the wrong kind of girl. The racing scenes are well done, the dramatic sequences less so. Charles Tingwell, the film's leading man, went on to TV popularity as star of such British action series as Emergency Ward Ten and Homicide. American distribution of Into the Straight was handled by Universal-International, which by and large confined the film to the lower half of double features. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Muriel Steinbeck, (more)
- 1950
British comic actor Tommy Trinder and Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film Bitter Springs. The plot is propelled along by Rafferty, who intrudes on the sacred hunting grounds of an aborigine tribe. Though tempers flare, everyone eventually buries the hatchet. The film is sentimental in the extreme, but is pulled off with a minimum of syrup. Bitter Springs was directed by future Secret Agent and The Avengers stalwart Ralph Smart. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, (more)
- 1948
The Australian Always Another Dawn celebrates that country's role in winning World War II. The film concentrates on the Royal Australian Navy and the victory at the Coral Sea. Charles Tingwell and Guy Doleman head the essentially all-male cast, though there's time enough for a few flashback sequences involving the ladies they left behind. Always Another Dawn would make an excellent companion piece to the 1958 Hollywood product Battle of the Coral Sea. The earlier film was distributed in the US by Universal, its original unwieldy running time pared down to 65 minutes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Guy Doleman, (more)
