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

Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1927-01-17

Died: 2007-05-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	The Road	Sir Timothy Hassall	0
2	1976	Illuminations		0
3	1976	Mad Dog Morgan	Swagman	60
4	1977	Inside Looking Out	Alex	0
5	1981	The Killing of Angel Street	Mander	64
6	1982	Deadline	ASIO Agent	60
7	1982	A Dangerous Summer	Percy Farley	40
8	1982	Lonely Hearts		56
9	1983	Buddies	George	55
10	1983	Man of Flowers	Charles Bremer	50
11	1984	Where the Green Ants Dream	Baldwin Ferguson	69
12	1985	Relatives	Uncle Edward	0
13	1985	Unfinished Business	George	30
14	1986	I Own the Racecourse	Drunken Old Man	0
15	1986	Frenchman's Farm	Reverend Aldershot	58
16	1986	Cactus	Tom	45
17	1987	Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train	Salesman	44
18	1988	Boundaries of the Heart	Billy Morgan	0
19	1988	The Riddle of the Stinson	Joseph Binstead	68
20	1989	Island		52
21	1991	A Woman's Tale	Billy	61
22	1992	The Nun and the Bandit	George	40
23	1992	Turtle Beach	Hobday	48
24	1993	Broken Highway	Elias Kidd	52
25	1993	The Nostradamus Kid	Wedding Pastor	46
26	1993	Touch Me	Charles	51
27	1994	The Custodian	Judge	43
28	1994	Exile	Ghost Priest	43
29	1996	Lust and Revenge		20
30	1997	Paws	Alex	44
31	1997	Heaven's Burning	Store Owner	59
32	2001	Moulin Rouge!	Satine's Doctor	76
33	2005	The Remarkable Mr. Kaye	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Homicide	Prosecutor	43
2	1976	Power Without Glory		50
3	1980	The Last Outlaw	Supt. Sadleir	50
4	1985	Flug in die Hölle	Bruder Jones	0
5	1986	The Flying Doctors	William Randall	63
6	1986	The Flying Doctors	Bill Randall	63
7	1986	Call Me Mister		50
8	1987	Rafferty's Rules	Harold Messenger	60
9	1988	The Shiralee	Desmond	68
10	1988	The True Believers	Archbishop Mannix	0
11	1989	Bangkok Hilton	George McNair	69
12	1995	Bordertown	Pieter Leeuwen	40
13	1996	Water Rats	Felix Friedman	66
14	1997	Roar		62

Norman Kaye

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