Leon Ford

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leon Ford is an Australian actor who has appeared in many television and theatre productions. He is best known for his roles in the television series The Cooks, Changi and the telemovie Stepfather of the Bride. He has also appeared in many other television series including All Saints, East West 101 and McLeod's Daughters, the 2005 movie The Great Raid and voiced a character in the 2008 stop motion animated movie $9.99. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Works

Water Rats

Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

Release Date1996-02-12

Charactersd First Probationer

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

McLeod's Daughters

When Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited.

Release Date2001-08-08

Charactersd Mick Woodland

Episode Count1

Vote Count55

Elvis

The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Release Date2022-06-22

Charactersd Tom Diskin

Vote Count3749

Ten Pound Poms

In 1956, British citizens respond to an Australian migration scheme promising a better life and good employment prospects for a mere £10. For Annie and Terry Roberts, and their two children, a move to Australia offers a way for Terry to escape the scars of his service during WWII. In contrast, Kate arrives as a young nurse and claims to have migrated on her own due to her fiancé not wanting to make the move, but the real truth behind her journey is something else entirely.

Release Date2023-05-14

Charactersd Bill Anderson

Episode Count6

Vote Count14

Sunny Nights

A brother and sister venture from the US to Sydney, determined to grow their new spray tan business Tansform, but when they get caught up in the city's criminal underworld, they must figure out how to stay alive, out of prison, and in the black.

Release Date2025-12-26

Charactersd Henley

Episode Count5

Vote Count5

East West 101

Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.

Release Date2007-12-06

Charactersd John Duff

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Young Lions

Young Lions

Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station. The program rated poorly and was not renewed after its first season. Competition from other new drama series and several timeslot changes also contributed to the show's demise.

Release Date2002-07-17

Charactersd Josef Pozinak

Episode Count1

Tsunami: The Aftermath

Tsunami: The Aftermath is a television mini-series that was broadcast in two parts in 2006. It dramatizes the events following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting tsunami in Thailand. Tsunami: The Aftermath is a joint production of HBO and the BBC and stars Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Sophie Okonedo, Samrit Machielsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Savannah Loney. It was filmed in Phuket and Khao Lak, Thailand from April to June 2006. Phuket and Khao Lak were two of the worst hit areas in the country in the December 26, 2004 disaster.

Release Date2006-12-10

Charactersd Joe Meddler

Episode Count2

Vote Count37

The Last Anniversary

A mystery that touches on family matters, motherhood and those women whose legacy defines the generations that blossom after them.

Release Date2025-03-27

Charactersd Ian

Episode Count6

Vote Count9

Mabo

The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.

Release Date2012-06-10

Charactersd Henry Reynolds

Vote Count5

Emerald Falls

After a brutal divorce, a mother and her son relocate to the Blue Mountains to run a Bed and Breakfast.

Release Date2008-03-23

Charactersd Callum Peterson

Vote Count3

Lost Things

Four teenagers; Gary (Leon Ford), Brad (Chalie Garber), Emily (Lenka Kripac) and Tracey (Alex Vaughan) travel to a desert paradisiacal beach and spend the weekend together. When they arrive, they meet the older Zippo (Steve Le Marquand), and experience a sense of Déjà vu with weird events, feeling that they had previously been in that place. That Saturday, they start to realize that they are actually trapped in a nightmare.

Release Date2004-11-01

Charactersd Gary

Vote Count26

God's Favorite Idiot

Clark Thompson, a midlevel tech-support employee, finds love with co-worker Amily Luck at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God. Also, there's rollerskating, a lake of fire and an impending apocalypse.

Release Date2022-06-15

Charactersd Reverend Milton Throp

Episode Count6

Vote Count84

Gallipoli

As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.

Release Date2015-02-09

Charactersd Charles Bean

Episode Count7

Vote Count26

Devil's Playground

The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently widowed, is a respected Sydney psychiatrist and father of two children. A practicing Catholic, Tom accepts an offer by the Bishop of Sydney to become a counselor of priests. During these sessions, he will uncover a scandal and become embroiled in the Church’s attempts to cover it up. Tom’s quest for justice will push him to his limits, and reveal a side of Church power and official corruption he could never have imagined.

Release Date2014-09-09

Charactersd Brother Warner

Episode Count6

Vote Count9

The Light Between Oceans

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Release Date2016-09-02

Charactersd Frank Roennfeldt

Vote Count1395

Rams

In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work together to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.

Release Date2020-10-15

Charactersd De Vries

Vote Count83

The Letdown

Audrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother & fancy-free best friend, make it damn near impossible.

Release Date2016-05-04

Charactersd Ruben

Episode Count13

Vote Count16

Julian

In school, 9-year old Julian gets into trouble for squealing a bully and therefore disturbing class.

Release Date2012-01-09

Charactersd Mr. Braybon

Vote Count9

The Cooks

The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters. The directors were Tony Tilse, Ian Gilmour, Brendan Maher and Ian Watson. The Cooks was about the love and war involving the staff of two restaurants on the same street. R&R's Restaurant was run by chefs Rita and Ruth, with waitress Argentine Carmelita. Across the road at Snatch and Grab, its chefs are Gabe and Sachin, who's of Indian descent, with Dishpig at the sink. The Cooks was a spin-off of a telemovie called Temptation, which screened in 2003, starring Colin Friels as Roberto Francobelli.

Release Date2004-10-18

Charactersd Dishpig

Episode Count13

Vote Count2

ANZAC Girls

The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

Release Date2014-08-10

Charactersd Major John Prior

Episode Count3

Vote Count12

House of Hancock

House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.

Release Date2015-02-08

Charactersd Alan Camp

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Changi

Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they are marched off to Changi prison camp. Together, the six boys survive three and a half years of incarceration. Almost sixty years later, the six prepare to get together for what may be their last hurrah.

Release Date2001-10-14

Charactersd Bill Dwyer

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Beneath Hill 60

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.

Release Date2010-04-15

Charactersd Lt. Robert Clayton

Vote Count159

$9.99

Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.

Release Date2009-04-29

Charactersd Stanton (voice)

Vote Count96

Stepfather of the Bride

This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.

Release Date2006-11-12

Charactersd Lachlan

Dog Park

Dog Park

Roland, a misanthropic man reluctantly adopted by a quirky dog owner community. Together, they support each other through personal struggles, discovering the value of connection, love, and mutual care amidst their challenges.

Release Date2026-02-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Roland

Episode Count[ 1 ]

Wanted

Two complete strangers, Lola and Chelsea, intervene in a fatal carjacking while waiting at a suburban bus stop, and are subsequently thrust into a chase from authorities across Australia with a vehicle filled with cash. The strangers must rely solely on each other while on the run.

Release Date2016-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count75

Upright

When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.

Release Date2019-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count85

The Portable Door

Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.

Release Date2023-03-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count260

Katoomba

A defining moment in the relationship of two best friends, who must now decide where their future lies, with or without the other.

Release Date2007-06-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Griff the Invisible

Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

Release Date2011-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count102

Glitch

Tim has a problem. The house he lives in no longer obeys the laws of logic. At times like this, there's only one man that can help.

Release Date2006-02-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Pacific

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Release Date2010-03-14

Episode Count1

Vote Count2457

Hex

The show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was in the "in-crowd", however, she goes about unnoticed in school everyday. The only girl who truly notices her is her best friend Thelma. For some strange reason though, Cassie feels like she is being followed by a man. This is only the beginning of her problem...

Release Date2004-10-17

Episode Count2

Vote Count61

My Place

My Place tells the story of one house in south Sydney as told by the generations of children who have lived there over a period of over 220 years. The series opens in 2008 and travels back to pre-1788. Each episode centres around a child with a talent for some kind of trouble, each hiding up the same old fig tree, each with a story to tell.

Release Date2009-12-04

Episode Count13

Vote Count1