Adam Zwar (Acting)
Little is known about Adam Zwar, a figure with a modest footprint in Acting. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Scrublands
In a small town, a priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners. One year later, a journalist arrives to investigate the tragedy, and after digging beneath the surface finds himself in a life-and-death race to uncover the truth.
Release Date: 2023-11-16
Character: Constable Robbie Haus-Jones
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 12
Darby and Joan
An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.
Release Date: 2022-08-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Race Commentator
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 9
Squinters
The trials and tribulations of car loads of travellers in peak hour morning transit and again on their drive home to find out how the workday turned out.
Release Date: 2018-02-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 5
EMO the Musical
Ethan, a sullen high-school student whose life is defined by what he hates, finds love with a blindly optimistic Christian girl Trinity, much to the annoyance of his angst-filled band mates and her evangelistic brethren.
Release Date: 2016-08-12
Character: Principal Stephens
Vote Count: 74
Agony
Our beloved Agony Aunts and Uncles return in a six-part series covering a diverse range of topics that will get you thinking, keep you wondering and make you laugh from Flirting to God, nothing is off limits.
Release Date: 2015-04-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Self - Host
Episode Count: 6
The Agony of the Mind
Our Agony Aunts and Uncles are back, and this time around they're sharing their mental wellness tips and techniques for overcoming stress and challenges.
Release Date: 2014-10-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Self - Host
Party Tricks
Party Tricks is an Australian television series set to screen on Network Ten in 2014. The six part series follows the story of Kate Ballard, a committed and rigorous politician who seems assured to become the next State Premier until a shock new opposition leader is selected, David McLeod, a popular television and radio personality. Kate and David had a secret, tumultuous affair. The six part drama is created by Michael Lucas and produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks for Southern Star Entertainment.
Release Date: 2014-10-06
Character: Trevor Bailey
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 6
The Agony of Modern Manners
This time our wise and witty Aunts and Uncles guide us through complex do's and don'ts of human behaviour. Whether it’s at home, in the office, online, travelling or having dinner, our team of experts show us how to behave, misbehave and what it feels like to be on the receiving end of both.
Release Date: 2014-04-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Self - Host
Episode Count: 6
This is Littleton
Littleton's Town Hall is the centre of activity for its community. In this 4-part Australian sketch comedy, we meet the lovable but flawed people of Littleton: council employees, councillors and a very grand Lord Mayor.
Release Date: 2014-02-20
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 1
The Agony of Christmas
Our Agony Uncles and Aunts are back to discuss all things Christmas. If Christmas is meant to be a time for peace and love, then why does it throw so many lives into turmoil?
Release Date: 2013-12-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Self - Host
Bodyline - The Ultimate Test
This is the story of one of the most well known but perhaps least understood moments of conflict and controversy in the history of sport: the infamous Bodyline test cricket series of 1932 and 1933. Self-confessed cricket tragic and comedian Adam Zwar will try to discover what happened at the crease and chart the wider social and cultural implications of the controversy by enlisting historians, sports scientists, and cricket stars to simulate the actual events. Is there more to the legend of Bodyline than we think? Adam is going back in time to live out a childhood fantasy or two. He is going to use machines, fancy cameras, and the latest in computer graphics. Modern day players will help him prepare. Adam will witness the real damage a high speed cricket ball can do. In the end, Adam will be on his own - with no helmet, no modern padding, and just a bat for protection. How will he handle this ultimate test?
Release Date: 2013-11-17
Character: Himself
The Agony of Life
No stone will be left unturned as Australia's funniest and brightest take us through the most important stages of existence - from child to adult, to creating and supporting families, to building and managing careers. And what after that? Should we sit on a hill and contemplate the wording of our epitaph, or travel the world? The good news is we don't need to worry about that because the Aunts and Uncles will be doing the worrying for us.
Release Date: 2013-02-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Self - Host
Episode Count: 8
The Doctor Blake Mysteries
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.
Release Date: 2013-02-01
Character: Herbert Jones
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 44
Agony Aunts
Welcome to Agony Aunts, where narrator/interviewer Adam Zwar heads further down the river in his hilarious search for answers on dating, cohabitation, marriage, divorce and dating again. Will he find the answers he seeks or will he return more confused than ever? That's if he returns at all.
Release Date: 2012-05-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Episode Count: 6
Agony Uncles
Welcome to Agony Uncles - where some of Australia's funniest and wisest celebrity gents put their reputations on the line to tell you what it's really like to be single, cohabitate, marry, divorce and then be single again in the 21st century. Agony Uncles charts the do's and don'ts of picking-up, falling in love, getting your heart broken and losing a house.
Release Date: 2012-03-21
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Character: Self - Host
Episode Count: 6
Wilfred
Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan the man how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the unpredictability and insanity of the world around him.
Release Date: 2011-06-23
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 406
Lowdown
Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the Sunday Sun. Each week Alex interviews celebrities for his column, and each week at least one of those celebrities ruins his week. Sometimes the celebrity gets drunk and punches Alex out. Sometimes the celebrity gets him arrested. Usually the celebrity sleeps with his girlfriend, Rita. It may not sound like much of a life, but it invariably leads to great copy and the readers love it. In fact, it's the only thing standing between the Sunday Sun and oblivion.
Release Date: 2010-04-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Alex Burchill
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 3
The Wedding Party
When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.
Release Date: 2010-01-01
Character: Tommy
Vote Count: 15
Tangle
The lives of two generations of two wealthy families intertwine as they clash and connect over money, sex, scandals and secrets in Melbourne.
Release Date: 2009-10-01
Character: Huey Moss
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 7
Carla Cametti PD
Carla Cametti PD is a six-part Australian television crime series that was announced in April 2008 and first screened on SBS TV on 8 January 2009. The series of six episodes is produced by Buon Giorno Productions Pty Ltd. The show revolves around a young female Italian-Australian private detective named Carla Cametti who is investigating her own mafia family. Carla is played by Diana Glenn. The DVD has been released in Region 4 only.
Release Date: 2009-01-08
Character: Hank
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Rush
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
Release Date: 2008-09-02
Character: Martin Gero
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 13
Valentine's Day
In the mould of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, VALENTINE'S DAY is a tale of hope and redemption. Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) has totally lost his way in the world when he finds himself in a strange country town. With a sentence of 200 hours of community service, Valentine must coach the town's 'no-hoper' football team, who are teetering on the brink of demise. If the team don't win three out of the next four games, they'll be merged with their arch rivals and the town will also lose its precious pie factory. Valentine is embraced, heart and soul by the townsfolk. This one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - and so does the town.
Release Date: 2008-07-06
Character: Beak
Underbelly
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
Release Date: 2008-02-13
Character: Gregg Hildebrandt
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 38
Rats and Cats
Rats and cats is a dark, satirical comedy about a fallen star and broken dreams. It is about fame and our culture of obsession. Actor Darren McWarren (Jason Gann) starred in soap, mini-series and film before destroying his career with a series of indiscretions. Now McWarren is out of the industry and living in a small town in Western Victoria he can do whatever he wants. When a journalist decides to write a "Where are they now" profile on McWarren, he finds the former star has become a modern day Errol Flynn. The local girls want to fornicate with him and their fellas want to fight him. He mightn't have found love - but it's the next best thing.
Release Date: 2007-05-29
Character: Ben
Vote Count: 2
Wilfred
Wilfred is an Australian comedy television series directed by Tony Rogers, produced by Jenny Livingston and starring Jason Gann, Adam Zwar and Cindy Waddingham. Created by Zwar, Gann and Rogers, it was based on their award-winning 2002 short film and later adapted to a series. The story follows the lives of the eponymous dog Wilfred, his owner Sarah, and her boyfriend Adam, who sees Wilfred as a man in a dog suit. Two seasons were broadcast on SBS One – the first in 2007 and the second in 2010. The series won three AFI Awards and was nominated for a Logie. Independent Film Channel acquired the international broadcast rights to the original two seasons of Wilfred in 2010. A U.S. version premiered on the cable channel FX on 23 June 2011.
Release Date: 2007-03-19
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Character: Adam Douglas
Episode Count: [ 17 ]
Vote Count: 27
The Wedge
The Wedge was an Australian sketch show created by Ian McFadyen and produced by Network Ten. The show's two seasons starred Dailan Evans, Adam Zwar, Jason Gann, Rebel Wilson, Kate Jenkinson, Katrina Mathers, Anthony Ahern and Julie Eckersley, with appearances from Julia Zemiro, Ross Daniels, Marney McQueen, Aidan Fennessy, Cori Hopper and Frieda McKenna. The main ensemble cast was joined in series two by Damian Callinan and Cal Wilson. It ran for two seasons, airing 2006 and 2007 and averaged a million viewers per episode through most of the first series. A spin-off mockumentary titled Marks Loves Sharon featuring one of the show's characters, Mark Wary (Jason Gann), was produced by Network Ten and premiered in June 2008.
Release Date: 2006-05-30
Episode Count: 48
Vote Count: 1
Wilfred
A man comes home with his date to find that her dog, Wilfred, can speak to him.
Release Date: 2002-02-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Adam Douglas
Vote Count: 3
Narcosys
Ruthless IT Corp. rules the world, controlling people through drugs and a virus.
Release Date: 2000-07-01
Character: Orbit America
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
Release Date: 1993-09-10
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 13