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Paul Fenech

Paul Fenech

Acting

Biography

Paul Fenech (born 21 November 1972) is an Australian filmmaker, film and television actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for writing, directing, producing and starring in the television series Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers, Housos and Bogan Hunters and the motion pictures Fat Pizza (2003), Housos vs. Authority (2012), Fat Pizza vs. Housos (2014) and Dumb Criminals: The Movie (2015).

Known For

Pizza
8.9

Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, has toured the Australian east coast. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour. The television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures.

Pizza

2000
Housos
6.1

Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screens on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public housing. On 1 November 2012, a film based on the series was released in Australian cinemas, titled Housos vs. Authority. On 9 September 2012 it was announced that Housos would return for a second series, which premiered 22 July 2013.

Housos

2011
The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
4.9

Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee

2020
Swift and Shift Couriers
6.5

From the makers of Fat Pizza, follow the incompetent, inappropriate and absurd day to day dramas of the staff at Hashfield depot.

Swift and Shift Couriers

2008
Bogan Hunters
6.0

The Bogan Hunters is a national quest to find Australia’s greatest bogan. Boganologist, Pauly Fenech, joined by single mother Shazza Jones and New Zealand’s beer drinking champion, Kev the Kiwi, are The Bogan Hunters. The hunt covers all states and territories, visiting only the most bogan suburbs across Australia. A panel of celebrity judges; Tahir Bilgic, Angry Anderson, Chris Franklin, Jacko, Rob Shehadie, Derek Boyer, Jonesy, and Miss Nude Australia will choose an alpha bogan each week. At the end of the series, seven finalists come to Sydney for a bogan grand final. The series finale prize is a makeover for one lucky bogan. Tatts, mullets, Ugg boots and burnouts…let the hunt begin!

Bogan Hunters

2014
Australia: Now and Then
N/A

Some of Australia’s most quotable celebrities, comedians, musicians, actors, characters and ratbags – across all generations - take off the gloves and duke it out over which generation is the hottest, the toughest and, ultimately, the best of them all.

Australia: Now and Then

2021
Fat Pizza
5.7

Fat Pizza is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the block. Channel V's Jabba almost steals the show as token skip delivery boy Davo Dinkum, a stoner with a bong strapped to his face like a feedbag.

Fat Pizza

2003
Dumb Criminals: The Movie
5.3

Rabbit and Rongo, two dumb but kind-hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. Inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes.

Dumb Criminals: The Movie

2015
Darradong Local Council
2.8

A dodgy mayor who does sly deals with Chinese property developers. A Greens councillor who wants to boycott Saudi Arabia for its treatment of feral cats. A lazy council worker who refuses to go to the toilet during his smoko break, holding it in so he can “reduce the workday”.

Darradong Local Council

2023
Fat Pizza: Back in Business
6.0

Pauly Falzoni, former pizza delivery boy, now boss, is trying to rebuild the infamous Fat Pizza restaurant in the notorious suburb of Hashfield.

Fat Pizza: Back in Business

2019
Housos vs. Authority
5.0

Franky and his best mate Dazza travel in a drug-laden campervan from the western outskirts of Sydney to Uluru so that Dazza's foul-mouthed girlfriend, Shazza, can be reunited with the dying mother she hasn't seen since she was three.

Housos vs. Authority

2012
Somewhere in the Darkness
9.3

In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Somewhere in the Darkness

1999
Fat Pizza Classics
N/A

Join Pauly, Sleek the Elite, Bobo and his Mama in these classic episodes of the cheesiest comedy in Aussie television history.

Fat Pizza Classics

2022
That’s Not My Dog!
4.9

THAT’S NOT MY DOG! is a joyous comedy that celebrates our love of joke telling. The film centres around the loveable Shane Jacobson (playing himself) who is throwing a party. Invited are the funniest people Shane knows comprising of Australia’s biggest stars along with several Australian music legends playing their biggest hits live, right throughout the party.

That’s Not My Dog!

2018
Fat Pizza vs Housos
5.2

After fifteen years, pizza chef Bobo is released from prison. Rent has gone up so the only shop Bobo can afford is in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale.

Fat Pizza vs Housos

2014
Bogan Hunters: Bathurst Conspiracy
N/A

The Bogan Hunters travel to Mount Panorama seeking bogan behaviour at Bathurst 1000. Known as the geographic epicentre of bogan motorsports activities, the Bogan Hunters discover a shocking revelation of a Bathurst conspiracy to remove the bogans, burnouts and booze from the event. Along with 2013's finalists Darren and Fordy, the Bogan Hunters find out if political correctness has smashed the bogan legacy.

Bogan Hunters: Bathurst Conspiracy

2015
Outback Outlaw Comedian
N/A

Australian filmmaker, actor and comedian, Paul Fenech, best known for his comedy television series Fat Pizza, is back with his new series: Outback Outlaw Comedian.

Outback Outlaw Comedian

2024
Housos Live
N/A

Franky, Shazza, Dazza, Kev and Vanessa are the Housos of the Housing Commission. Lifelong unemployed bludgers they are entirely reliant on government pensions to support their way of life. That way of life entails stealing, bashing, bonging, drinking and rooting each other and whoever they meet down the block - the very worst park of the very worst suburb in Australia - Sunnyvale.

Housos Live

2012
The Da Vinci Cup
N/A

As part of the coverage of the World Cup by Australian broadcaster SBS, Pauly Falzoni (AKA Paul Fenech) travels the globe and takes us behind the conspiracy of the world’s biggest sport, where he is able to prove categorically that the World Cup is a sham.

The Da Vinci Cup

2006
Dumb Criminals Motorcycle Club
N/A

The story of two hopeless crims, Rabbit and Rongo. Out of jail they regroup and battle old girlfriends, bikie gangs and their own stupid plans and schemes. They team up with other petty criminals, Jimmy Speed, Pothead and Droptank. This series is based on true dumb crimes from around the world only the names have been changed to expose the guilty. The old saying goes, crime doesn't pay... Well, it pays less if you're a DUMB CRIMINAL.

Dumb Criminals Motorcycle Club

2015