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Norman Kaye
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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 str…
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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.
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2005
The Remarkable Mr. Kaye
Movie Self
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2001
Moulin Rouge!
Movie Satine's Doctor
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2000
Innocence
Movie Gerald
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1999
Without Warning
Movie Max
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1997
Heaven's Burning
Movie Store Owner
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1997
Paws
Movie Alex
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1997
Roar
TV show Galen
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1996
Lust and Revenge
Movie Baba Charles
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1996
Water Rats
TV show Felix Friedman
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1995
Bordertown
TV show Pieter Leeuwen
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1994
Exile
Movie Ghost Priest
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1994
The Custodian
Movie Judge
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1993
Touch Me
Movie Charles
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1993
The Nostradamus Kid
Movie Wedding Pastor
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1993
Broken Highway
Movie Elias Kidd
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1992
Turtle Beach
Movie Hobday
More credits
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1992
The Nun and the Bandit
Movie George
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1991
A Woman's Tale
Movie Billy
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1989
Bangkok Hilton
TV show George McNair
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1989
Island
Movie
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1988
The Riddle of the Stinson
Movie Joseph Binstead
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1988
The True Believers
TV show Archbishop Mannix
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1988
The Shiralee
TV show Desmond
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1988
Boundaries of the Heart
Movie Billy Morgan
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1987
Vincent
Movie Music
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1987
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Movie Salesman
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1987
Rafferty's Rules
TV show Harold Messenger
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1987
Hungry Heart
Movie Mr. O'Ryan
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1986
Call Me Mister
TV show
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1986
Cactus
Movie Tom
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1986
The Flying Doctors
TV show William Randall
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1986
Frenchman's Farm
Movie Reverend Aldershot
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1986
I Own the Racecourse
Movie Drunken Old Man
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1985
Unfinished Business
Movie George
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1985
Flug in die Hölle
TV show Bruder Jones
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1985
Relatives
Movie Uncle Edward
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1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
Movie Baldwin Ferguson
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1983
Man of Flowers
Movie Charles Bremer
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1983
Buddies
Movie George
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1982
A Dangerous Summer
Movie Percy Farley
