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Butterfly Island
''Butterfly Island'' is an Australian children's drama television series. The first season cost $1.6 million, the second $3.2 million.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 96 This was the first mainstream Australian TV show where an Asian actor, David Phu An Chiem was given a lead role. The first eight part season aired on the ABC in 1985. It followed the Wilson family who run a holiday resort. Also featured are a Vietnamese refugee and a crooked property developer. The second 22-part season moved to Channel 7 in 1987. A planned third season was axed in 1987 after a casting dispute with the Actors’ Equity over the use of an American actress. The series was revived in 1991. Cast Main / regular * Grigor Taylor as Charlie Wilson * Mouche Phillips as Jackie Wilson * Penne Hackforth-Jones as Mary Travers * Mark Kounnas as Greg Wilson * Kerri Sackville as Sally Wilson (season 1) * Phu An Chiem as Vo Diem (season 1) * Vincent Ball as Sergeant C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Rubie
Howard William Rubie (27 August 1938 – 18 July 2011) was an Australian director. Biography Rubie was born in Sydney, he worked extensively in film and television, and was awarded for his services an Emmy and was nominated for an AFI Award (now known as the AACTA Award). accessed 22 June 2013 and started his career in cinematography and was inducted in 2010 to the Australian Cinematographers Society Hall of Fame. Select Credits *''The World of the Seekers'' (1968) (documentary) *'''' (1969) (TV series) - various episodes *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Sont
Gerard Sont, also known as Gerry Sont and sometimes credited as Gerald Sont, is an Australian actor and TV host. Early life and education Gerard Sont was born Sydney, New South Wales. He studied acting at in London, England, and later trained with Uta Hagen in New York City. Acting career Sont joined Actors Equity of Australia in 1976. Screen Sont played the titular Melvin in '' Melvin, Son of Alvin'' (1984). He played recurring character Brett Mackin on ''Home and Away'' (from the series' inception in 1988, with appearances until 2005), and a main character, Cal Lawrence, in the TV series '' Chances''. He was the first host of Australia's version of '' Double Dare'' and was a presenter on ABC's magazine style TV series '' Antenna''. Sont has appeared in numerous television advertisements since 1981. Stage Sont has appeared on stage in productions such as '' How Does Your Garden Grow?'' at the State Theatre, Sydney in 1996, ''The Cherry Orchard'' at the New Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Original Programming
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse) Australian (1858 – 15 October 1879) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was exported to the United States where he had modest success as a racehorse but became a very successful and influential breeding stallion. Back ..., a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Australian Television Series Endings
Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals. * January 4 – ** 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. ** Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home." * January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. * January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Australian Television Series Debuts
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches '' Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969. * February 5 – Australia cancels its involvem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Children's Television Series
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse) Australian (1858 – 15 October 1879) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was exported to the United States where he had modest success as a racehorse but became a very successful and influential breeding stallion. Back ..., a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Screen Online
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Whitford
Peter Whitford (born 1939) is an Australian former radio, theatre, television and film character actor known for numerous roles particularly as wealthy businessmen and members of the aristocracy. Early life Peter Whitford was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He studied at Sydney's NIDA, graduating in 1963 with Diploma of Dramatic Art (Acting). Career Whitford is an actor, playwright, director and singer, who started his career in radio roles and then in theatre, beginning in 1958. From the 1960s he then began appearing in film and television roles, which he continued up until 2010. When he graduated from NIDA in 1963, Whitford performed in ABC Radio play, ''King of Hearts''. He then played Jack Porter in the long-running radio serial '' Blue Hills''. Whitford's theatre credits are numerous. His early stage roles were in university theatre at NIDA, in plays such as ''Julius Caesar'', ''Hamlet'', ''The Crucible'', ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''The Cherry Orchard''. He went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Fitzpatrick
Neil Fitzpatrick (1934–2005) was an Australian actor. For his performance in ''Pig in a Poke'' he won the 1978 Logie Award for Best Individual Performance by an Actor. Born in Melbourne he first became a professional actor around 1957. He relocated to Great Britain where from 1964 to 1968 he worked with the National Theatre. Returning in Australia in 1969 and began working at the Old Tote Theatre. He had a long stage career, with roles including ''Benefactors'' (1986), ''Canaries Sometimes Sing'' (1993) and ''Death Defying Acts'' (1997) at the Marian Street Theatre; '' The Christian Brothers'' (1992) at Kirribilli's Ensemble Theatre; ''Rookery Nook'' (1969–70) and ''Bent'' (1980) at the Russell Street Theatre The Russell Street Theatre was a theatre on Russell Street, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne Theatre Company performed there from 1960 to 1994, using it as their main city venue in the 1960s and early 1970s and their secondary venue from the late ... in Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mochrie
Peter Mochrie (born 23 March 1959) is an Australian actor whose career spans over forty five years in the industry, primarily featuring in television serial dramas such as ''The Restless Years'', '' Water Rats'' and '' Janet King''. He has also worked in New Zealand, where he spent six years as Dr. Callum McKay in the soap opera ''Shortland Street''. Biography Mochrie born in March 1959, love of acting started at the age of 13 when he appeared in a play at Knox Grammar School, where he completed his schooling in 1976. He is also a producer of Fine Films and Profiles, presenter, teacher of 'The Art of Presenting' and an Auctioneer for McGrath Estate Agents. In 1978, he received his first big break appearing in TV soap opera ''The Restless Years'' as Ric Moran. He played this role for two years and soon caught the attention of other TV producers, and appearing in serials including ''Holiday Island'', ''Neighbours'', '' Butterfly Island'', and '' Sons And Daughters'', and Alex B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Ball
Vincent Martin Ball, (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian retired actor of film, theatre and radio active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain starting in the late 1940s and then his native Australia. Ball, a Royal Air Force military veteran, has also authored a number of books. Ball is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and television films, including '' A Town Like Alice'', ''Breaker Morant'', ''Phar Lap'', '' Muriel's Wedding'' and '' The Man Who Sued God''. Ball appeared in numerous television roles, primarily in cameo guest roles, but had recurring roles in serials including the British serial '' Crossroads'', '' Rush'', '' The Young Doctors'', '' A Country Practice'' and ''Home and Away''. Ball cited film stars Virginia McKenna and Chips Rafferty and Australian actor Ray Meagher as among his co-stars and friends in the entertainment industry. Ball also worked variously in theatre, including Shakespe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
