Martin Dingle-Wall is an Australian actor, producer and screenwriter. He originated the role of Flynn Saunders on the Australian soap opera Home and Away in 2001. He departed the show in 2002. Dingle-Wall has appeared in Satisfaction, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and Cops: L.A.C.
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| Born | Martin Dingle-Wall Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia |
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| Years active | 1998–present |
| Notable work | Flynn Saunders in Home and Away |
| Website | martindinglewall |
Career edit
For his portrayal of Flynn Saunders in Home and Away, Dingle-Wall received a nomination for the Logie Award for Most Popular New Male Talent.[1]
In 2003, he appeared on stage as Kip Polson in an adaptation of the screenplay The Nothing Men. He was picked for the Peugeot 307 SV campaign in 2004. Later in 2004, he took a part in a short movie for the BBC, Out of Water, playing the lead.
In 2005, appeared as Scott Allen in the television drama film Summer Solstice, directed by Giles Foster, playing alongside Jacqueline Bisset, Honor Blackman, Jason Durr and Sinéad Cusack.
In 2007, he appeared as Johnny Lake in and episode of the television series Satisfaction.
In 2007/8, he also filmed the comedy feature film The Makeover, playing the lead Roger Keaton.
He has also written two screenplays: Heart of a Nation and Pariah; both were taken up by an (unnamed) production house in the UK with Shepperton and Pinewood Studios.
In 2007/8, he also filmed the movie version of The Nothing Men for which he was also a producer through his company Alchemy Film Productions P/L., via which they became a global industry headline for pioneering the revolutionary RED digital cinema camera in the Southern Hemisphere, second in the world to only Steven Soderbergh's Che.
In 2008/9, he was cast as the younger brother Les Kane of the notorious Kane Brother's, bosses of the Painters & Dockers for the Underbelly prequel Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities.
In 2010, he appeared alongside Kate Ritchie for a third time in Cops: L.A.C.
Dingle-Wall went to Los Angeles in 2012 to play the title role of Matthew Butticker, Defense Attorney in the Award Winning play ANACONDA for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It went on to win the Festival & be nominated as Top 10 Theatre Productions that year by the GLAAD Awards.
He relocated to Los Angeles in 2013 & booked a major commercial campaign for NISSAN cast as the Hero by Director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion, TRON-LEGACY).
Dingle-Wall booked the support role of Neil McPherson in the film Strangerland with Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes, directed by Kim Farrant.
Soon after, he booked the romantic lead in the Feature Film "All that Jam" shot on location in Russia, for which he learned Russian and played almost the entire film in that language. His support cast included Chris Owen, (Sherminator from the American Pie Franchise) and Svetlana Khodchenkova (Viper from Wolverine).
Dingle-Wall then booked the lead role in Happy Hunting (2016 film), shot in America in the Californian desert, Directed by Joe Dietsch & Louie Gibson. It had its American Premier at Screamfest where it won BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. It is heavily engaged in the 2017 Festival Circuit both domestically and abroad.
He joined the cast of Salty, alongside Antonio Banderas and Olga Kurylenko in July 2016.[2]
In 2021, Dingle-Wall played the lead role of Will Scott in the Egyptian-American[3] TV series, Cypher.
Personal life edit
He has a brother and sister, Jamie & Sally.[4] Dingle-Wall grew up on the coast of Bondi.
In October 2016, Dingle-Wall revealed that shortly after relocating to Los Angeles in 2012, he began receiving treatment from Alcoholics Anonymous.[5] The actor told Jonathon Moran of The Daily Telegraph that he decided to attend AA because he did not like the personality changes he suffered as a result of consuming alcohol.[5]
Filmography edit
Film edit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2001 | The New Crusaders | Cinema Talker | Short film |
| 2001 | Jumping Ship | Dante | TV movie |
| 2007 | Out of Water | Fisherman | Short film |
| 2009 | The Makeover | Rodger Keaton | |
| 2010 | The Nothing Man | Wesley Timms | Also producer |
| 2010 | We Men Do | Husband | Short film |
| 2010 | Twenty Ten | ||
| 2011 | House of Sticks | Lance | Short film |
| 2012 | Bombay Beach | Father | Short film |
| 2012 | A Light Touch | Oscar | Short film |
| 2014 | The Polygamist | Charles | Short film |
| 2014 | Surviving Bug | Jason | Short film (also associate producer) |
| 2015 | Strangerland | Neil McPherson | Feature film |
| 2015 | Run | Host | Short film |
| 2016 | All That Jam | Michael | |
| 2016 | Happy Hunting | Warren Novak | Feature film |
| 2017 | Gun Shy | Clive Muggleton | Feature film |
| 2020 | The Will | Henry | Feature film |
| 2020 | Swimming for Gold | Calvin Carpenter | |
| 2020 | The American King | Street Preacher | |
| 2020 | The Dry | Luke Hadler | Feature film |
| 2022 | The American King-As told by an African Priestess | Professor | |
| 2022 | Love and Penguins | Mackenzie | TV movie |
| TBA | Get A Life | Alex | Completed |
| TBA | Kane | Richard | Completed |
| TBA | This Bloody Country | Ned Campbell | Post-production |
Television edit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1998 | All Saints | Greg Howard | Season 1, Episode 6 |
| 1998 | Mick | Season 1, Episode 28 | |
| 1998 | Murder Call | Drug Dealer | Season 2, Episode 16: “A View to Kill” |
| 1999 | Big Sky | Gavin | Season 2, Episode 8 |
| 2001–02 | Home and Away | Flynn Saunders | Seasons 14–15 (main cast) |
| 2007 | Satisfaction | Johnny | Season 1, Episode 2 |
| 2009 | Underbelly | Les Kane | Season 2: "A Tale of Two Cities" (4 episodes) |
| 2009 | Rescue: Special Ops | Jake Hudson | Season 1 (4 episodes) |
| 2010 | Cops LAC | Rhys Llewellyn | Season 1 (main cast, 13 episodes) |
| 2014 | Hush: The Series | Will Kalig | TV pilot |
| 2016 | Upper Middle Bogan | Evan | Season 3 (4 episodes) |
| 2017 | Visioneering: Forward Thinkers of the World | Bruno | |
| 2020 | Boned | Billy Nordic | Season 1, Episode 1 |
| 2021 | Cypher | Will | Season 1 (main cast, 8 episodes) |
| 2021 | Eden | David Cohen | Season 1, Episode 3 |
Radio edit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2012 | The Truth | Judge 2 | Podcast series; "Domestic Violins" |
References edit
- ^ Ede, Charisse (3 April 2002). "TV's longest night is back". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
- ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (13 July 2016). "Martin Dingle Wall Joins Simon West's 'Salty'; Carter MacIntyre Climbs Aboard 'Hunter Killer'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Egypt's film editor Ahmed Hafez takes part in American TV Series Cypher". EgyptToday. 23 March 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Home And Away Star Reveals: My Alcohol Abuse Nightmare". New Idea. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ a b Moran, Jonathon (4 October 2016). "Former Home and Away star Martin Dingle-Wall reveals he went to AA meetings in LA". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 November 2016.