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A kindly farmer wins a cute piglet, which some greedy humans and jealous animals hope will end up as the Christmas roast. Undaunted, the young pig proves himself useful on the farm and enlists the aid of the resident dog in learning how to herd sheep. Family comedy, starring James Cromwell and Magda Szubanski, with Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes and Hugo Weaving among those providing the voices of the animal characters
1995
HD
subtitles
16x9
Comedy
Family
Literary Adaptation
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
James Cromwell
(Actor)
.. Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Magda Szubanski
(Actor)
.. Esme Hoggett
Christine Cavanaugh
(Actor)
.. Babe
Miriam Margolyes
(Actor)
.. Fly
Hugo Weaving
(Actor)
.. Rex
Miriam Flynn
(Actor)
.. Maa
Danny Mann
(Actor)
.. Ferdinand
Russi Taylor
(Actor)
.. Dutchess
Chris Noonan
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
James Cromwell
(Actor)
.. Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Born:
January 27, 1940
in
Los Angeles
Best Known For:
Playing the farmer in Babe.
Early-life:
Born John Oliver Cromwell on January 27, 1940, in Los Angeles. He was raised in New York and Connecticut by actress mother Kay Johnson, and director father John Cromwell. After attending Middlebury College and Carnegie Institute of Technology, he went on to study acting. His first professional work came in the theatre, where he appeared in everything from experimental plays to Shakespeare.
Career:
He made his first TV appearances in 1974 with roles in long-running sitcom All in the Family and hit detective show The Rockford Files. His first film, Murder by Death, was released two years later. He continued to work in theatre, films and TV, cropping up in The Man with Two Brains, Revenge of the Nerds and Dream West, before landing an Oscar nomination for Babe in 1995. The film made him a famous face, and since then, he's starred in Star Trek: First Contact, The People vs Larry Flynt, Babe: Pig in the City, The Green Mile, Space Cowboys, and I, Robot.
Quote:
On his Oscar nomination for Babe: "Andy Warhol said everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame. And if this is mine, I couldn't imagine a better 15 minutes."
Trivia:
In 2013, he won a Primetime Emmy for his role in American Horror Story: Asylum.
Magda Szubanski
(Actor)
.. Esme Hoggett
Christine Cavanaugh
(Actor)
.. Babe
Miriam Margolyes
(Actor)
.. Fly
Born:
May 18, 1941
in
Oxford
Best Known For:
Her many film, stage and TV roles.
Early-life:
Margolyes was born in Oxford, in 1941, the daughter of Ruth, a real estate investor, and Joseph Margolyes, a physician. She grew up in a Jewish family, a descendant of immigrants from Belarus. She attended the local Oxford High School and later Newnham College, Cambridge. There, she began acting in her 20s, and also appeared in productions of the comedy troup, Cambridge Footlights.
Career:
Margolyes first gained recognition for her work as a voice artist. After early work providing vocals on soft-porn films, she performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series, Monkey. She also worked with the theatre company Gay Sweatshop. Margolyes' first major role in a film was as Elephant Ethel in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Flora Finching in the 1988 movie Little Dorrit. On American TV, she headlined the short-lived 1992 CBS sitcom Frannie's Turn. In 1993 she won a Best Supporting Actress Bafta for her role as Mrs Mingott, the only comic relief in Martin Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence. Since then she has appeared in the Harry Potter films and played small roles in many hit movies and TV shows.
Quote:
"Life, if you're fat, is a minefield - you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up."
Trivia:
She became an Australian citizen in January 2013.
Hugo Weaving
(Actor)
.. Rex
Born:
April 04, 1960
in
Ibadan, Nigeria
Best Known For:
Playing Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy
Early-life:
Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960, in Nigeria, to his English parents Wallace, a seismologist, and Anne, a teacher. He has an elder brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna. His niece, Samara Weaving, appears in Aussie soap Home and Away. The Weaving family left Nigeria when he was still a baby and, due to his dad's job, moved between the UK and South Africa before eventually settling in Australia in the late 1970s. He attended grammar school in Sydney, and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1981.
Career:
Weaving's first major roles came in TV series Bodyline and The Dirtwater Dynasty. He also starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott in 1989's mini-drama The Bangkok Hilton. More film parts followed, but the actor's big break came in 1994 with Australian movie Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Five years later he was cast as the cunning Agent Smith in The Matrix. Two sequels followed, as did another three-part epic, The Lord of the Rings, in which Weaving appeared as Elvish elder, Lord Elrond (he reprised the role in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies). Weaving's other films include V for Vendetta, Oranges and Sunshine, and Captain America.
Quote:
"I'm 'of the world'. There was a time when I thought, 'Oh, I must go back to England. I feel English.' Then I went and the longer I was away, the more Australian I felt. Now, I've come back here and I don't feel entirely Australian."
Trivia:
In 2004, Weaver became an ambassador for Australian animal rights organisation Voiceless.
Miriam Flynn
(Actor)
.. Maa
Danny Mann
(Actor)
.. Ferdinand
Russi Taylor
(Actor)
.. Dutchess
Chris Noonan
(Director)
