Paul D. Barron (born 1949) is Canadian prolific film and television producer who was born and raised in Toronto, he graduated from Queens University with an Honours Degree in English and Drama before moving to Western Australia in 1972 and becoming the director of the Perth Institute of Film and Television. He established his production company Barron Films in 1981.
Sweat is an Australian drama series created by John Rapsey and produced by Barron Entertainment in Perth. The show aired on Network Ten in 1996 and centred around students at an Australian school for the athletically gifted. Sweat was Heath Ledger's first regular role on a television series; he played Snowy Bowles, a gay cyclist. Scenes shot in & around Perth included at locations such as Challenge Stadium & the now defunct Perry Lakes Stadium, scene of the 1962 Commonwealth Games.
Release Date1996-04-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count26
Vote Count4
Follows two boys, Jason and Lee, after they are transported to an alien world with three suns, through a vortex while on a boat trip that started in Vancouver, Canada. The boys receive help from Flees a seasoned veteran of living on Stormworld who has a special boat named Stormrider. The boys, as new arrivals or "access crashers" as the local inhabitants call them, find shelter at The Settlement.
Release Date2009-03-18
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom out from street stalls; the Rolling Stones are in town along with tourists and American sailors fresh from Vietnam. They join British and Australian soldiers checking out the prostitutes and gambling dens, en route to their own war in Borneo. This is the city of Sam Callaghan, Patricia Cheng, the CIA’s Conrad Harrison and the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency. The agency’s cases range from the usual (straying spouses and petty fraudsters) to events with international implications and complications. Sam’s contacts from his military days are useful - but they start to drag him back into a dark world that he would prefer to leave behind.
Release Date2013-09-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count10
Vote Count7
Misery Guts was an Australian children's television series on the Nine Network Australia that first screened in 1998. Keith is the only son of Vin and Marge Shipley. They live above a fish 'n' chips shop in South London and things are tough. Keith's parents are misery gutses and he is convinced that the only way for the family to regain its former happiness is for him to make his parents smile again. Keith embarks on a mission to cheer his parents up. He buys a brilliantly coloured tropical fish from Australia, where the sun shines all the time, the sea is full of fish and coconuts just fall into your hands. When all his efforts to cheer his parents up fail spectacularly, Keith decides he must somehow get his parents to Australia. People couldn't be unhappy in a paradise where fish sparkle like rainbows and it's sunny and warm all the time. Or could they? Based on Morris Gleitzman's books 'Misery Guts', 'Worry Warts', and 'Puppy Fat'.
Release Date1998-12-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
Release Date1986-12-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count21
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
Release Date1983-12-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count8
A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to press charges against the young thugs who raped her.
Release Date1992-08-18
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count4
A group of kids try to run a successful riverboat business with the help of some ghostly friends.
Release Date1999-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count32
Detectives are trying to cracking down on a drug smuggling ring in a local fishing village.
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.
Release Date1990-08-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count6
A motorcycle riding lawyer fights to save the life of a mentally retarded man on death row. His own mother is ready to let him go.
Release Date1995-06-07
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count1
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 Australian novel of the same name by Patricia Wrightson.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Sim, now a member of the Winter Circus in Paris, befriends Eve, another young clown. Drawn to an experimental style of clowning used by Circus Oz and Cirque du Soleil, the techniques get them both fired, but when Sim returns home to Australia, he finds that he is now the inheritor of a share in the Rathnow Circus.
Release Date1993-08-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s heading – he’s seen it all before, in the hard life of his father. Returning to his traditional country and the love of girlfriend Polly is the way out. But Floyd’s mateship is hard to shake.
Release Date1993-11-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle malfunctions and she makes a pit stop in a remote town. Cadell meets teen Elizabeth Curtis, who confides that she has just been raped, and Cadell helps the young woman report the crime to the authorities. When police corruption stands in the way of justice, she takes matters into her own hands.
Release Date1988-02-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count28
When Sammy Dean and her older brother Andy are suddenly orphaned, they fear that they will be separated and placed in foster homes. So they set off along on foot, hoping to reach a ship that will take them to England and their only surviving relatives. The two young runaways must make their dangerous journey through some of the world’s harshest terrain-the wilds of the Australian outback.
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count5
John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
Release Date1994-03-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
An idealistic solicitor heads to the bush after a disillusioning encounter with the legal system. In a small country town she witnesses an incident between police and two local Aborigines, and reluctantly becomes embroiled in a fight for justice.
Release Date1996-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Daisy, a gun-toting grumpy old battle-axe, eeking out her life in a tumbledown shack in the middle of nowhere. Into her life stumbles Simon, a mild-mannered accountant. Together, they form an uneasy alliance that is hilarious to watch. Gradually he helps her rediscover her zestful youth in return for stability in his troubled life.
Release Date1989-05-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Release Date2019-12-22
DepartmentCreator
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