Vincent Ball
Overview
- Occupation Actor
- Birthdate January 01, 1924
- Birthplace Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia
- Education Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Character WingCommander Cecil Carpenter
Biography
Vincent Ball is an Australian born actor. He came to England as a ship’s deck hand and started to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art almost immediately upon arrival. The Blue Lagoon was one of his first movies in which he was a stunt double. But after a few years he was featured on his own in movies like Stop Press Girl, The Drayton Case and A Town Like Alice. In the early 1960s Ball became a fixture of medium-budget action films, thanks to his street-tough handsomeness and pugnacious personality. He returned to Australia in the early 1970s and stared in Australian films like Breaker Morant, The Southern Cross and Phar Lap.
Selected films
- Interrupted Journey, The - 1949
- Warning to Wantons, A - 1949
- Stop Press Girl - 1949
- Come Dance with Me - 1950
- Black Rider, The - 1954
- Devil's Point - 1954
- Blue Peter - 1955
- Town Like Alice, A - 1957
- Robbery Under Arms - 1957
- Blood of the Vampire - 1958
- Breakout - 1959
- Navy Heroes - 1959
- Identity Unknown - 1960
- Coming-Out Party, A - 1961
- Highway to Battle - 1961
- Matter of Who, A - 1962
- Mouse on the Moon, The - 1963
- Follow That Camel - 1967
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Oh! What a Lovely War - 1969
- Not Tonight Darling - 1972
- Demolition - 1977
- Breaker Morant - 1980
- Phar Lap - 1983
- Highest, The - 1984
- Year My Voice Broke, The - 1988
- Muriel's Wedding - 1994
- Sirens - 1994