
Norman Kaye
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.026 |
Birthday | 1927-01-17 |
Place of Birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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2001

Moulin Rouge!
7.548/4569
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A...
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Moulin Rouge!

1984

Where the Green Ants Dream
6.9/53
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbe...
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Where the Green Ants Dream

1986

I Own the Racecourse
0/0
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Austr...
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I Own the Racecourse

1991

A Woman's Tale
6.1/10
Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead a...
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A Woman's Tale

1997

Paws
4.4/25
A talking Terrier with impressive computer skills teams up with two youngsters to stop a million dollars from falling into the wrong hands.
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Paws

1983

Man of Flowers
5/10
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching prett...
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Man of Flowers

1994

Exile
3/1
When Peter Costello is exiled to a deserted island for stealing sheep, Mary, a maid, decides to join him there.
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Exile

1986

Cactus
4.5/4
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
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Cactus

1982

Lonely Hearts
5.5/6
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
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Lonely Hearts

1982

A Dangerous Summer
4/5
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certa...
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A Dangerous Summer

1993

The Nostradamus Kid
4.6/5
When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
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The Nostradamus Kid

1993

Broken Highway
5.2/4
In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heav...
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Broken Highway

1976

Illuminations
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A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but...
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Illuminations

1988

Boundaries of the Heart
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A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at h...
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Boundaries of the Heart

1983

Buddies
5.5/4
Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
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Buddies

1985

Unfinished Business
3/2
Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover fro...
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Unfinished Business

1994

The Custodian
4.3/6
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt polic...
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The Custodian

2005

The Remarkable Mr. Kaye
0/0
The Remarkable Mr Kaye is a blatantly biased portrait by filmmaker Paul Cox about the life of Norman Kaye - actor, musician and compassionate lover of...
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The Remarkable Mr. Kaye

1993

Touch Me
5.1/7
Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.
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Touch Me

1977

Inside Looking Out
0/0
The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a...
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Inside Looking Out

1964

The Road
0/0
The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?
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The Road

1985

Relatives
0/0
A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.
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Relatives

1996

Lust and Revenge
2/1
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's...
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Lust and Revenge

1986

Frenchman's Farm
5.3/3
An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Return...
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Frenchman's Farm

1992

The Nun and the Bandit
4/3
Outlaws kidnap their 14-year-old cousin and hold her for ransom. The girl is being chaperoned by a visiting nun, who refuses to abandon her during the...
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The Nun and the Bandit

1976

Mad Dog Morgan
6/41
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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1988

The Riddle of the Stinson
6.8/5
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...
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The Riddle of the Stinson

1997

Heaven's Burning
5.9/32
In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage...
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Heaven's Burning

1981

The Killing of Angel Street
6.7/6
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on...
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The Killing of Angel Street

1987

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
5.2/4
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cros...
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

1989

Island
5.2/4
Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging from extreme passion to fear, leading to murder - from...
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Island

1982

Deadline
6/3
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion -...
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