Charles Chauvel
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Charles Chauvel in a principal role. It is not a comprehensive filmography.
In a production role:
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) — writer, director
Charles and Elsa Chauvel follow the path of the Bounty mutineers from Tahiti to the Pitcairn Islands, using dramatised scenes to re-create the events leading up to the…
Heritage (1935) — producer, writer, director
James Morrison (Franklyn Bennett), a dashing and ambitious young settler in the new colony at Sydney Cove, woos Biddy O’Shea (Peggy Maquire), a fiery young Irish girl, when…
Uncivilised (1936) — director, writer
Beatrice Lynn (Margot Rhys), a successful novelist, journeys into the ‘unexplored’ reaches of north-west Australia in search of book material. She has heard rumours of a ‘wild white…
Rangle River (1936) — writer
After 15 years in Europe, Marion Hastings (Margaret Dare) returns to her father’s cattle property in western Queensland to help save it. Her ailing father (George Bryant) has…
Uncivilised (1936) — producer
Beatrice Lynn (Margot Rhys), a successful novelist, journeys into the ‘unexplored’ reaches of north-west Australia in search of book material. She has heard rumours of a ‘wild white…
Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) — producer, director, writer
Red Gallagher (Grant Taylor) and his best pals Jim (Chips Rafferty) and Larry (Pat Twohill) are bored Australian soldiers in Egypt in 1916, constantly getting up to mischief…
Sons of Matthew (1949) — producer, director, writer
Irishman Matthew O’Riordan (John O’Malley) and his English wife Jane (Thelma Scott) have carved a farm from fickle acres at Deep Creek, in northern New South Wales. They…
Jedda (1955) — producer, director, writer
An Aboriginal woman dies in childbirth on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory. The baby girl is raised by the station owner’s wife, Sarah McMann, after…
Australian Walkabout (1958) — writer, producer
In this program the Chauvels, on a filmmaking safari of Australia, are travelling through the Northern Territory. They camp outside the small town of Katherine with their filmmaking…
