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Middle Age Spread

Film (Full Length) – 1979

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Mature

Grant Tilly in his starring role as Colin, in 1979 movie Middle Age Spread. He first played Colin onstage at Wellington's Circa Theatre.

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From left, Isobel (Bridget Armstrong), Colin (Grant Tilly) and his wife Elizabeth (Dorothy McKegg) in the dinner party sequence from 1979 movie Middle Age Spread.

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Grant and Fay Tilly at a cast and crew screening of Middle Age Spread in mid 1979. It was held at Wellington's Lido Cinema, which was then located on Willis St.

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A scene from Middle Age Spread. Elizabeth (right, Dorothy McKegg) is giving a dinner party. Her guests include Isobel (centre, Bridget Armstrong), a cottage craft enthusiast, and Judy (Donna Akersten), who has recently had an affair with Elizabeth's husband.

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Australian actor Peter Sumner as the cynical Reg in Middle Age Spread.

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