Norman Kaye

Norman Kaye

Norman James Kaye (17 January 1927 – 28 May 2007) was an Australian actor and composer. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox. As an actor, he was strongly associated with the films of Paul Cox, appearing in 16 of them. He had small roles in Cox's Illuminations (1976) and Kostas (1979), and shared the lead with Wendy Hughes in Cox's 1982 film Lonely Hearts and the lead in Man of Flowers (1983), for which he won an AFI Award. Norman Kaye was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease prior to 1997. His inability to memorise scripts for the film Innocence led to the end of his collaboration with Paul Cox, as well as the end of his career in 2004. Kaye was in the advanced stage of the disease at the time of his death in Sydney on 28 May 2007. He had enjoyed a 35-year relationship with the opera director Elke Neidhardt, and she was at his side at his death.

  • Title: Norman Kaye
  • Popularity: 2.703
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1927-01-17
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Norman Kaye Movies

  • 2001
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    Moulin Rouge!

    Moulin Rouge!

    7.558 2001 HD

    A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century....

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  • 1984
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    Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream

    6.9 1984 HD

    The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are...

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  • 1986
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    I Own the Racecourse

    I Own the Racecourse

    1 1986 HD

    A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic...

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  • 1991
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    A Woman's Tale

    A Woman's Tale

    6.1 1991 HD

    Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead...

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  • 1997
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    Paws

    Paws

    4.4 1997 HD

    A talking Terrier with impressive computer skills teams up with two youngsters to stop a million dollars from falling into the wrong hands.

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  • 1983
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    Man of Flowers

    Man of Flowers

    5 1983 HD

    An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching...

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  • 1994
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    Exile

    Exile

    3 1994 HD

    When Peter Costello is exiled to a deserted island for stealing sheep, Mary, a maid, decides to join him there.

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  • 1986
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    Cactus

    Cactus

    4.5 1986 HD

    A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.

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  • 1982
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    Lonely Hearts

    Lonely Hearts

    5.5 1982 HD

    In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker

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  • 1982
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    A Dangerous Summer

    A Dangerous Summer

    3.8 1982 HD

    Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores...

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  • 1993
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    The Nostradamus Kid

    The Nostradamus Kid

    4.6 1993 HD

    When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.

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  • 1993
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    Broken Highway

    Broken Highway

    5.2 1993 HD

    In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is...

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  • 1976
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    Illuminations

    Illuminations

    1 1976 HD

    A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but...

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  • 1988
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    Boundaries of the Heart

    Boundaries of the Heart

    1 1988 HD

    A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at...

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  • 1983
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    Buddies

    Buddies

    5.5 1983 HD

    Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly

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  • 1985
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    Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    3 1985 HD

    Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover...

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  • 1994
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    The Custodian

    The Custodian

    4.3 1994 HD

    Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt...

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  • 2005
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    The Remarkable Mr. Kaye

    The Remarkable Mr. Kaye

    1 2005 HD

    The Remarkable Mr Kaye is a blatantly biased portrait by filmmaker Paul Cox about the life of Norman Kaye - actor, musician and compassionate lover...

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  • 1993
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    Touch Me

    Touch Me

    5.1 1993 HD

    Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.

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  • 1977
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    Inside Looking Out

    Inside Looking Out

    1 1977 HD

    The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a...

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  • 1964
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    The Road

    The Road

    1 1964 HD

    The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?

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  • 1985
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    Relatives

    Relatives

    1 1985 HD

    A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.

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  • 1996
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    Lust and Revenge

    Lust and Revenge

    2 1996 HD

    This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's...

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  • 1986
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    Frenchman's Farm

    Frenchman's Farm

    4.5 1986 HD

    An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder....

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  • 1992
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    The Nun and the Bandit

    The Nun and the Bandit

    4 1992 HD

    Outlaws kidnap their 14-year-old cousin and hold her for ransom. The girl is being chaperoned by a visiting nun, who refuses to abandon her during...

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  • 1976
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    Mad Dog Morgan

    Mad Dog Morgan

    6 1976 HD

    The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

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  • 1988
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    The Riddle of the Stinson

    The Riddle of the Stinson

    6.8 1988 HD

    A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...

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  • 1997
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    Heaven's Burning

    Heaven's Burning

    5.9 1997 HD

    In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the...

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  • 1981
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    The Killing of Angel Street

    The Killing of Angel Street

    6.7 1981 HD

    Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on...

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  • 1987
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    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    5.2 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...

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  • 1989
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    Island

    Island

    5.2 1989 HD

    Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging from extreme passion to fear, leading to murder - from...

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  • 1988
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    Boundaries of the Heart

    Boundaries of the Heart

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1987
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    Vincent

    Vincent

    6.7 1987 HD

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  • 1986
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    Cactus

    Cactus

    4.5 1986 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Last Outlaw

    The Last Outlaw

    5 1980 HD

    An unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask of armour. But beyond the armour, behind the eyes was...

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  • 1988
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    The True Believers

    The True Believers

    1 1988 HD

    The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the...

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  • 1989
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    Bangkok Hilton

    Bangkok Hilton

    6.9 1989 HD

    This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in...

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  • 1997
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    Roar

    Roar

    6.2 1997 HD

    Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in July 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor, sets out to...

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  • 1996
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    Water Rats

    Water Rats

    6.6 1996 HD

    Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

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  • 1986
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    Call Me Mister

    Call Me Mister

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1976
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    Power Without Glory

    Power Without Glory

    5 1976 HD

    Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as...

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.071 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.071 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 1985
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    Flug in die Hölle

    Flug in die Hölle

    1 1985 HD

    The true account of two young German aviators, Captain Hans Bertram and Adolph Klausmann, who had to survive six weeks in the Kimberley region in...

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  • 1995
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    Bordertown

    Bordertown

    4 1995 HD

    Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries. It takes place in a post World War II refugee camp in Australia.

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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...

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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...

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  • 1988
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    The Shiralee

    The Shiralee

    6.8 1988 HD

    Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter...

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