Phillip Adams

Phillip Adams

Known for

Producing

Born

July 12, 1939 (age 87)

Birthplace

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Biography

Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He is one of guiding lights of the resurgent Australian film industry in the early 1970s. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. Adams is (or was) on the Advisory Board of Wikileaks.

Best known work

Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972
Don's Party
Don's Party
1976
The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom
1977
We of the Never Never
We of the Never Never
1982
The Naked Bunyip
The Naked Bunyip
1970
Grendel Grendel Grendel
Grendel Grendel Grendel
1981
Dallas Doll
Dallas Doll
1994
Lonely Hearts
Lonely Hearts
1982
Parkinson In Australia
Parkinson In Australia
1979

Filmography

  1. 2025

    Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke

    as Self

  2. 2008

  3. 2008

  4. 1994

    Dallas Doll

    as Radio Announcer

  5. 1983

  6. 1983

    Abra Cadabra

    Producer

  7. 1982

    We of the Never Never

    Executive Producer

  8. 1982

    Lonely Hearts

    Executive Producer

  9. 1981

    Grendel Grendel Grendel

    as Narrator, Producer

  10. 1979

    Parkinson In AustraliaTV

    as Self (1 episode)

  11. 1977

  12. 1976

    Don's Party

    Producer

  13. 1975

  14. 1975

  15. 1972

  16. 1970

  17. 1970

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