Penne Hackforth-Jones

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Aug 05, 1943 (81 years old)
Death date
May 17, 2013

Penne Hackforth-Jones

Known For

Purple Flowers
0h 10m
Movie 2011

Purple Flowers

Jack likes Jill. Jill likes Jack. Two teenagers dealing with love, lust and death. A short film written and directed by Julian Ryan, stars Christian Byers and Airlie Dodds in the two main roles

Bitter & Twisted
1h 30m
Movie 2008

Bitter & Twisted

A family drifts down a spiral of self-destruction and depression in the years following the death of their eldest son. Can they come to terms with what's happened before everything falls apart?

Chandon Pictures
0h 25m
TV Show 2007

Chandon Pictures

Chandon Pictures was an Australian comedy television series that premiered on Movie Extra on 10 November 2007 and ended on 7 May 2009. The series featured sixteen episodes and was a spin-off from a Tropfest short film produced by Rob Carlton and Alex Weinress. It followed the misadventures of a struggling video production company called 'Chandon Pictures.' Rob Carlton, who plays the main character, is the younger cousin of Brian Carlton, The Spoonman talkback host on the Austereo Triple M network. This was revealed when The Spoonman interviewed Rob. On 10 July 2008, it was announced that the series had won a second season and it had sold format rights to its distributor Lionsgate. The first season premiered in the UK on Dave on 19 February 2009 in a 10pm slot. It was also aired in the US on the Sundance Channel.

Paradise Road
2h 2m
Movie 1997

Paradise Road

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

Irresistible Force
1h 14m
Movie 1993

Irresistible Force

A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.

Bodysurfer
1h 40m
TV Show 1989

Bodysurfer

Bodysurfer charts the odyssey of David Lang. Searching beyond mid-life crisis, David finds unanswered questions of his childhood can lead him toward a state of maturity. He realises it is his last hope for reconstructing his fractured family

After Marcuse
1h 15m
Movie 1988

After Marcuse

A woman artist's affair with a younger man jeopardises her marriage, her career and her child's future. He personifies the nihilistic philosophy of Albert Marcuse and tries to manipulate her. Her dependence on him forces her to reassess all the values of her art and life. We observe these events at three levels; a woman writer uses them as the basis of a play and in the process reveals parallels in her own experience.

Time's Raging
1h 30m
Movie 1985

Time's Raging

A 38-year-old woman feels her biological clock is ticking and is torn between her ex and a younger lover.

Don't Call Me Girlie
1h 10m
Movie 1985

Don't Call Me Girlie

The untold story of Australia's movie heroines - on and off the screen.

Butterfly Island
0h 30m
TV Show 1985

Butterfly Island

Butterfly Island is a 1985 Australian children's show. The first season cost $1.6 million, the second $3.2 million.

Biography

Penne Hackforth-Jones (August 5, 1949 – May 17, 2013) was an American-born Australian actress and biographer. Hackforth-Jones lived with her family in England before relocating to Australia in 1964. She gratuated National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1968. In 1969, Hackforth-Jones made her first credited on-screen appearance in the Australian television series Riptide, and later appeared in such Australian television series. Penne Hackforth-Jones died at the age of 64 after battling lung cancer. She never married, and was survived by her three sisters.

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