
Person
Phillip Adams
Production · Born 1939-07-12 · 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.
Known for

Parkinson In Australia
Self

Not Quite Hollywood
Self

The Man Inside Dame Edna
Self

Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
Self

The Naked Bunyip
Producer

Abra Cadabra
Producer

Grendel Grendel Grendel
Narrator

We of the Never Never
Executive Producer

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Producer

The Getting of Wisdom
Producer
Filmography
- 2025Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John ClarkeSelf
- 2008Not Quite HollywoodSelf
- 2008The Man Inside Dame EdnaSelf
- 1994Dallas DollRadio Announcer
- 1983Kitty and the BagmanProducer
- 1983Abra CadabraProducer
- 1982We of the Never NeverExecutive Producer
- 1982Lonely HeartsExecutive Producer
- 1981Grendel Grendel GrendelNarrator
- 1979Parkinson In AustraliaSelf
- 1977The Getting of WisdomProducer
- 1976Don's PartyProducer
- 1975Life. Be In It.: ParticipateDirector
- 1975Life. Be In It.: ImaginationDirector
- 1972The Adventures of Barry McKenzieProducer
- 1970Jack and Jill: A PostscriptDirector
- 1970The Naked BunyipProducer
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