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McCallum's father, John Neil McCallum Sr., was a theatre owner and entrepreneur, who built and for many years ran the 2,000 seat Cremorne Theatre on the banks of the Brisbane River. After emigrating from Scotland, McCallum Snr. became an accomplished musician, and was soon heavily involved in Brisbane's entertainment scene. His mother was an accomplished amateur actress who was born in England.
In 1918, McCallum Jr. was born in Brisbane during the opening night of a comedy performance. After his birth, a family friend sent his father a wire: 'Congratulations on two howling successes'.
McCallum was exposed to acting at a young age: his early childhood was full of backstage encounters at the Cremorne with the wide variety of performers who frequented his father's theatre. Although McCallum and his two younger brothers received their primary school education in the UK, the family returned to Australia once the Great Depression started. His secondary education was at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane.
His early theatrical training was with Barbara Sisely at the Brisbane Repertory Company.
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Total trailers found: 30
23 January 1953
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
28 June 1956
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback.
05 December 2002
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the s
01 May 1956
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
02 May 1986
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
25 December 1950
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England.
06 April 1948
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
07 August 1953
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
22 September 1952
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
05 July 1948
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
25 October 1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff.
23 May 1949
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
01 June 1982
Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.
05 February 1947
Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part.
20 September 1946
This family melodrama, a tale of desertion, vengeful seduction, coincidental meeting and catharsis, spans more than two decades from 1920 to World War II.
15 June 1954
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers.
31 March 1971
Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum.
15 May 1982
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
17 March 1954
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
03 October 1950
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
09 June 1952
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day.
05 August 1922
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
01 January 1952
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green.
26 September 1951
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia.
01 November 1979
Set in the English countryside of the 1920s - when otter hunting was still legal - this film follows the life of Tarka the Otter from his birth into adulthood.
28 November 1947
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
08 June 1947
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
02 January 1957
This film contains three short stories about life in Australia in the 1950's.
28 July 1947
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
01 January 1969
A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.
