Norman Kaye
Acting • Born 1927-01-17 – Died 2007-05-29
Biography
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.
Filmography
47 credits
Moulin Rouge!
Movie • 2001
Satine's Doctor
Where the Green Ants Dream
Movie • 1984
Baldwin Ferguson
I Own the Racecourse
Movie • 1986
Drunken Old Man
A Woman's Tale
Movie • 1991
Billy
Paws
Movie • 1997
Alex
Man of Flowers
Movie • 1983
Charles Bremer
Exile
Movie • 1994
Ghost Priest
Cactus
Movie • 1986
Tom
Lonely Hearts
Movie • 1982
Peter
A Dangerous Summer
Movie • 1982
Percy Farley
The Nostradamus Kid
Movie • 1993
Wedding Pastor
Broken Highway
Movie • 1993
Elias Kidd
Illuminations
Movie • 1976
Boundaries of the Heart
Movie • 1988
Billy Morgan
Buddies
Movie • 1983
George
Unfinished Business
Movie • 1985
George
The Custodian
Movie • 1994
Judge
The Remarkable Mr. Kaye
Movie • 2005
Self
Touch Me
Movie • 1993
Charles
Inside Looking Out
Movie • 1977
Alex
The Road
Movie • 1964
Sir Timothy Hassall
Relatives
Movie • 1985
Uncle Edward
Lust and Revenge
Movie • 1996
Baba Charles
Frenchman's Farm
Movie • 1986
Reverend Aldershot
The Nun and the Bandit
Movie • 1992
George
Mad Dog Morgan
Movie • 1976
Swagman
The Riddle of the Stinson
Movie • 1988
Joseph Binstead
Heaven's Burning
Movie • 1997
Store Owner
The Killing of Angel Street
Movie • 1981
Mander
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Movie • 1987
Salesman
Island
Movie • 1989
Deadline
Movie • 1982
ASIO Agent
Turtle Beach
Movie • 1992
Hobday
The Last Outlaw
TV • 1980
Supt. Sadleir
The True Believers
TV • 1988
Archbishop Mannix
Bangkok Hilton
TV • 1989
George McNair
Roar
TV • 1997
Galen
Water Rats
TV • 1996
Felix Friedman
Call Me Mister
TV • 1986
Power Without Glory
TV • 1976
The Flying Doctors
TV • 1986
William Randall
The Flying Doctors
TV • 1986
Bill Randall
Flug in die Hölle
TV • 1985
Bruder Jones
Bordertown
TV • 1995
Pieter Leeuwen
Homicide
TV • 1964
Prosecutor
Rafferty's Rules
TV • 1987
Harold Messenger
The Shiralee
TV • 1988
Desmond