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Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial, yet successful, film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus Christ. Outside his career, remarks by Gibson have generated accusations of homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and misogyny; he has previously attributed the statements to his alcoholism.
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Boss Level (2020)
A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never-ending time loop on the day of his death.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Joe Carnahan
Stars: Mel Gibson | Frank Grillo | Naomi Watts | Will Sasso | Annabelle Wallis
Fatman (2020)
As: Santa Claus
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Eshom Nelms | Ian Nelms
Stars: Mel Gibson | Walton Goggins | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Paulino Nunes | Shaun Benson
Force of Nature (2020)
As: Ray
A gang of thieves plan a heist during a hurricane and encounter trouble when a disgraced cop tries to force everyone in the building to evacuate.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Michael Polish
Stars: Mel Gibson | David Zayas | Kate Bosworth | Emile Hirsch | Stephanie Cayo
Waldo (2020)
A disgraced LAPD detective, whose life off the grid comes to a hard end when he is dragged back into the city as a private detective to investigate the death of an eccentric TV star’s wife.
Directed by: Tim Kirkby
Stars: Mel Gibson | Charlie Hunnam | Eiza González
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
As: James Murray
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr William Minor.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Farhad Safinia
Stars: Mel Gibson | Ioan Gruffudd | Sean Penn | Natalie Dormer | Jeremy Irvine
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
As: Brett Ridgeman
Two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner (Vaughn), find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Runtime: 159 min.
Directed by: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Mel Gibson | Michael Jai White | Don Johnson | Vince Vaughn | Jennifer Carpenter
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
As: Kurt Mayron
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Sean Anders
Stars: Mel Gibson | Will Ferrell | Linda Cardellini | Mark Wahlberg | John Lithgow
Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017)
As: Himself
Christian documentary on the life of Steve McQueen.
Stars: Mel Gibson | Gary Sinise | Mel Novak | Barbara Leigh
The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge' (2017)
'Hacksaw Ridge' is the epic and inspiring true story of Desmond Doss, an army medic and conscientious objector who, during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Cliff Stephenson
Stars: Mel Gibson | Hugo Weaving | Andrew Garfield | Sam Worthington | Teresa Palmer
Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior' (2016)
As: Himself
Retrospective on the making of "Mad Max 2".
Runtime: 49 min.
Stars: Mel Gibson | Vernon Wells | George Miller | Dean Semler | Terry Hayes
Blood Father (2016)
As: John Link
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
Stars: Mel Gibson | William H. Macy | Michael Parks | Erin Moriarty | Thomas Mann
The Madness of Max (2015)
The Madness of Max is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is without a doubt the last word on Mad Max (1979).Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh ...
Runtime: 157 min.
Directed by: Tim Ridge | Gary McFeat
Stars: Mel Gibson | George Miller
Laddie (2015)
As: Himself
Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.
Directed by: Amanda Ladd Jones
Stars: Mel Gibson | Morgan Freeman | Ben Affleck | Sigourney Weaver | Ron Howard
The Making of The Expendables 3 (2014)
As: Himself
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the third installment of the Expendables franchise.
Runtime: 52 min.
Directed by: Yariv Lerner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Harrison Ford | Sylvester Stallone | Dolph Lundgren | Patrick Hughes
The Expendables 3 (2014)
As: Conrad Stonebanks
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that ...
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Patrick Hughes
Stars: Mel Gibson | Jason Statham | Harrison Ford | Sylvester Stallone | Arnold Schwarzenegger
Machete Kills (2013)
As: Luther Voz
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Mel Gibson | Danny Trejo | Michelle Rodriguez | Amber Heard | Demián Bichir
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot (2013)
As: Himself
Actors, crew and executives who worked at Warner Bros. Pictures recall their days at the studio.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Gary Khammar
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Martin Sheen | Clint Eastwood | William Friedkin | Christopher Nolan
Get the Gringo (2012)
As: Driver
A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Adrian Grunberg
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bob Gunton | Peter Stormare | Dean Norris | Kevin Hernandez
Final Cut - Ladies & Gentlemen (2012)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: György Pálfi
Stars: Isabelle Adjani | Julie Andrews | Fanny Ardant | Agustín Almodóvar | Rosanna Arquette
The Beaver (2011)
As: Walter Black
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his parents to get a divorce. Jodie Foster directs and co-stars as Walter's wife in this dark comedy that also features Riley Thomas Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Stars: Mel Gibson | Anton Yelchin | Zachary Booth | Jennifer Lawrence | Jodie Foster
Mad Mel: The Rise and Fall of a Hollywood Icon (2010)
As: Himself
A look at the rise and fall of Mel Gibson's career using footage from across the web.
Runtime: 120 min.
Stars: Mel Gibson | Robert Downey Jr.
Edge of Darkness (2010)
As: Thomas Craven
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Stars: Mel Gibson | Ray Winstone | Danny Huston | Shawn Roberts | Denis O'Hare
Tales of William Wallace (2007)
As: Himself
Runtime: 30 min.
Stars: Alan Ladd, Jr. | Nicholas Omana | Jim Ward | John Lee | Bruce Davey
Becoming Mayan: Creating Apocalypto (2007)
As: Himself
An overview of the making of Mel Gibson's 'Apocalypto'.
Runtime: 24 min.
Stars: Mel Gibson | Simon Atherton | Anna Roth | Mayes C. Rubeo | Farhad Safinia
Payback: Straight Up (2006)
As: Porter
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Brian Helgeland
Stars: Mel Gibson | Gregg Henry | Maria Bello | David Paymer | Bill Duke
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
As: Himself
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Chris Paine
Stars: Mel Gibson | Tom Hanks | Martin Sheen
The Big Question (2004)
As: Himself
Although it was shot on the set of director Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion of the Christ, this thought-provoking documentary is not about the making of the movie. Rather, filmmakers Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari delve into the nature of divinity and spiritual beliefs through revealing interviews with Gibson and members of his cast and crew -- including stars Jim Caviezel and Monica ...
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Alberto Molinari | Francesco Cabras
Stars: Mel Gibson | Monica Bellucci | Maia Morgenstern | Rosalinda Celentano | Luca De Dominicis
The Singing Detective (2003)
As: Dr. Gibbon
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Keith Gordon
Stars: Mel Gibson | Robin Wright | Katie Holmes | Jeremy Northam | Robert Downey Jr.
Signs (2002)
As: Rev. Graham Hess
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Mel Gibson | Joaquin Phoenix | Abigail Breslin | Rory Culkin | Cherry Jones
We Were Soldiers (2002)
As: Lt. Col. Hal Moore
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Stars: Mel Gibson | Sam Elliott | Greg Kinnear | Madeleine Stowe | Chris Klein
What Women Want (2000)
As: Nick Marshall
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Stars: Mel Gibson | Helen Hunt | Lauren Holly | Marisa Tomei | Alan Alda
Chicken Run (2000)
As: Rocky (voice)
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the american rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Nick Park | Peter Lord
Stars: Mel Gibson | Miranda Richardson | Timothy Spall | Jane Horrocks | Imelda Staunton
The Patriot (2000)
As: Benjamin Martin
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Runtime: 165 min.
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Mel Gibson | Heath Ledger | Jason Isaacs | Tchéky Karyo | Joely Richardson
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
As: Detective Skinner
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Stars: Mel Gibson | Jeremy Davies | Peter Stormare | Milla Jovovich | Amanda Plummer
Payback (1999)
As: Porter
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Brian Helgeland
Stars: Mel Gibson | Gregg Henry | Maria Bello | Kris Kristofferson | David Paymer
Forever Hollywood (1999)
As: Himself
Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 57 min.
Directed by: Arnold Glassman | Todd McCarthy
Stars: Jeff Bridges | Annette Bening | Sharon Stone | Warren Beatty | André De Toth
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
As: Martin Riggs
In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from gumshoe Leo Getz and smart-aleck rookie cop Lee Butters, Riggs and Murtaugh aim to take down Ku and his gang.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Jet Li | Rene Russo
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
As: Jerry Fletcher
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Julia Roberts | Cylk Cozart | Steve Kahan | Patrick Stewart
Ransom (1996)
As: Tom Mullen
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Ron Howard
Stars: Mel Gibson | Gary Sinise | Lili Taylor | Delroy Lindo | Rene Russo
Pocahontas (1995)
As: John Smith (voice)
History comes gloriously to life in Disney's epic animated tale about love and adventure in the New World. Pocahontas is a Native American woman whose father has arranged for her to marry her village's best warrior. But a vision tells her change is coming, and soon she comes face to face with it in the form of Capt. John Smith.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Eric Goldberg | Mike Gabriel
Stars: Mel Gibson | John Kassir | David Ogden Stiers | Russell Means | Irene Bedard
Braveheart (1995)
As: William Wallace
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Runtime: 178 min.
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson | Patrick McGoohan | Sophie Marceau | Angus Macfadyen | Catherine McCormack
Maverick (1994)
As: Bret Maverick
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Alfred Molina | Graham Greene | Jodie Foster | James Garner
The Man Without a Face (1993)
As: Justin McLeod
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, causing the ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson | Nick Stahl | Fay Masterson | Margaret Whitton | Gaby Hoffmann
Forever Young (1992)
As: Capt. Daniel McCormick
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Steve Miner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Elijah Wood | Jamie Lee Curtis | George Wendt | Isabel Glasser
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North ...
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Bill Couturié
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Harrison Ford | James Caan | Alec Baldwin | Peter Coyote
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
As: Martin Riggs
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the beautiful yet hardnosed internal affairs sergeant who catches Riggs's eye.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Stuart Wilson | Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Rene Russo
Hamlet (1990)
As: Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Mel Gibson | Ian Holm | Paul Scofield | Glenn Close | Alan Bates
Air America (1990)
As: Gene Ryack
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Mel Gibson | David Marshall Grant | Nancy Travis | Robert Downey Jr. | Ken Jenkins
Bird on a Wire (1990)
As: Rick Jarmin
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: John Badham
Stars: Mel Gibson | Stephen Tobolowsky | David Carradine | Joan Severance | Goldie Hawn
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
As: Martin Riggs
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Joss Ackland | Derrick O'Connor
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
As: Dale "Mac" McKussic
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Robert Towne
Stars: Mel Gibson | Kurt Russell | Michelle Pfeiffer | J.T. Walsh | Raúl Juliá
Lethal Weapon (1987)
As: Sergeant Martin Riggs
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Danny Glover | Gary Busey | Mitchell Ryan | Tom Atkins
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
As: Mad Max Rockatansky
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: George Ogilvie | George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Tina Turner | Angelo Rossitto | Helen Buday
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
As: Ed Biddle
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates, despite her fragile health. While making her rounds, she makes the acquaintance of the Biddle Brothers, Ed (Mel Gibson) and Jack (Matthew ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Mel Gibson | Diane Keaton | Matthew Modine | Edward Herrmann | Trini Alvarado
The River (1984)
As: Tom Garvey
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Mark Rydell
Stars: Mel Gibson | Scott Glenn | Sissy Spacek | Billy Green Bush | Shane Bailey
The Bounty (1984)
As: Fletcher Christian
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Mel Gibson | Anthony Hopkins | Edward Fox | Daniel Day-Lewis | Laurence Olivier
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
As: Guy Hamilton
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There, on the eve of an attempted coup, he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people and also falls in love with a British national.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Stars: Mel Gibson | Sigourney Weaver | Michael Murphy | Linda Hunt | Bill Kerr
Attack Force Z (1982)
As: Captain Kelly
Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual events. Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific, Capt. P.G. Kelly (Gibson) and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Tim Burstall
Stars: Mel Gibson | Chris Haywood | Sylvia Chang | Sam Neill | John Phillip Law
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
As: Max Rockatansky
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Vernon Wells | Max Phipps | Michael Preston
Gallipoli (1981)
As: Frank Dunne
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Stars: Mel Gibson | Harold Hopkins | Bill Kerr | Mark Lee | Gerda Nicolson
Tim (1979)
As: Tim Melville
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Michael Pate
Stars: Mel Gibson | Peter Gwynne | Piper Laurie | Pat Evison | Alwyn Kurts
Mad Max (1979)
As: Mad Max Rockatansky
In a postapocalyptic future, jaded cop Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is ready to retire. But his world is shattered when a malicious gang murders his family as an act of retaliation, forcing a devastated Max to hit the open road seeking vengeance. As he travels the Australian outback's empty stretches of highway, he tours the bloodstained battlegrounds ruled by marauding bikers who feed on violence.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson | Steve Bisley | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Joanne Samuel | Tim Burns
The Hero (1979)
Australian ABC TV children's educational program shows how a TV show actor is cast and works to create an episode of a TV program.
Runtime: 20 min.
Directed by: Martin Williams
Stars: Mel Gibson | Vivienne Garrett
Summer City (1977)
As: Scollop
Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out of revenge for what he did to his daughter. Boo is in for a major wake up ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Christopher Fraser
Stars: Mel Gibson | John Jarratt | Steve Bisley | Phillip Avalon | James Elliott
Rothchild ()
As: Whitelaw Rothchild
A young man hatches a murderous plot to inherit his family's wealth.
Directed by: Jon S. Baird
Stars: Mel Gibson | Shia LaBeouf
Black Flies ()
“Black Flies” is the story of a young paramedic, Ollie Cross (Sheridan), navigating his first year on the job. He’s partnered with Rutkovsky (Gibson), an experienced medic who thrusts Ollie into the harsh realities of New York’s inner-city streets. Amidst high crime rates, homelessness, and widespread drug use, Ollie finds his perspective on life and death beginning to shift.
Stars: Mel Gibson | Tye Sheridan