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Caddie (film)
''Caddie'' is an Australian film biopic directed by Donald Crombie and produced by Anthony Buckley. Released on 1 April 1976, it is representative of the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade. Set mainly in Sydney during the 1920s and 1930s, including the Great Depression, it portrays the life of a young middle class woman struggling to raise two children after her marriage breaks up. Based on '' Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid'', a partly fictitious autobiography of Catherine Beatrice "Caddie" Edmonds, it made Helen Morse a local star and earned Jacki Weaver and Melissa Jaffer each an Australian Film Institute Award. Plot In 1925 Sydney, Caddie leaves her adulterous and brutish husband and takes her two children, Ann and Terry, with her. Forced to work as a barmaid in a pub she struggles to survive. A brief affair with Ted (Jack Thompson) ends badly when his involvement with another woman comes to light, but she falls in love with a Greek immigrant, Pete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Crombie
Donald Charles Crombie (5 July 1942 – 25 March 2025) was an Australian film and television director. He is known for the films ''Caddie (film), Caddie'' (1976), ''The Irishman (1978 film), The Irishman'' (1978), ''Cathy's Child'' (1979), ''Playing Beatie Bow (film), Playing Beatie Bow'' (1986), and ''Selkie (film), Selkie'' (2000), and also for his work on several TV series, including ''Flipper (1995 TV series), Flipper'' (1995–1997) and ''McLeod's Daughters'' (2001–2002). Early life and education Donald Charles Crombie was born on 5 July 1942 in Brisbane, Queensland. He never met his father, who was killed in 1944 while a pilot for the Royal Air Force, and was brought up by his mother alone, in Queensland. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Career Crombie started work at the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Screen Australia) around 1963. In 1967 he directed a short documentary film made for the CFU t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Award For Best Actress In A Supporting Role
The AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television". The award is handed out at the annual AACTA Awards, which rewards achievements in feature film, television, documentaries, and short films. From 1976 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the AFI launched the academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Toni Collette and Judy Davis are the most awarded actresses in this category, with three wins each. Candidates for this award must be human and female An organism's sex is fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivienne Garrett
Vivienne Garrett is an Australian-based theatre, film and television actress. She is a theatre director, acting and voice coach and also a qualified yoga instructor and therapist. She was born in Sydney and now lives in Western Australia. Garrett graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1970. Her best known role was as rebellious teenager Rose Godolfus (later Myers), an original character in TV serial '' Number 96'', her character was involved in numerous controversial storylines Early career As a primary school student she was chosen to star in a theatrical production of ''The Little Mermaid'' where she was spotted by Geoff Harvey the then musical director for TCN-9 and subsequently began performing and singing on children's television talent show ''Comedy Capers''. While still a teenager, her first screen acting role was in '' The Unloved'' produced by NLT Productions in 1968. After graduating from NIDA she toured with a Theatre in Education company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Nevin
Robyn Anne Nevin (25 September 1942) is an Australian actress recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis. Nevin is also known for her roles in films and televisions series, including ''Water Under the Bridge'' (1980) as Shasta, role that earned her a Logie Awards and a Penguin Award, '' Upper Middle Bogan'' (2014) and '' Top of the Lake'' (2014), and international film acting as Councillor Dillard in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and '' The Matrix Revolutions'' (both 2003), and as Edna in the horror f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Grills
Leo Dennis Grills (26 May 1928 – 27 July 2007), known professionally as Lucky Grills, was an Australian actor and comedian. His best known acting role was in the crime drama TV series '' Bluey'' playing the title role, and later parodied in Bargearse. Grills took his professionally working name after the Italian-American gangster Lucky Luciano. Grills is credited for initiating the ''Mo Awards'', an awards show that celebrate Australian Variety in 1975. Early life Grills was born on Johnson Street in Moonah, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, on 26 May 1928, to Francis Leonard Grills and Hilda May (née Dennis). He was the youngest of five siblings, who were Thelda Jean, Raymond Ernest, Eunice and Faye Grills. He was born into the depression, at a time when there was little work available and money was tight. He was raised on a farm until his family relocated to Melbourne, hoping for better prospects. Grills left school at 14 years and took a printing apprenticeship. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Mackay (actor)
Mary Mackay was an Irish-Australian actress. She was born in Ireland and worked at the Abbey Theatre, and in London. In the 1950s, she moved to Australia where she worked on stage, radio, television and film. She arrived in Australia with the company for ''Call Me Madam''. Mackay hosted a number of Australian television talk shows. Mackay married a T. Carmichael. She was also an A.T.S. major during World War II. Select credits *''A Tongue of Silver'' (1959) *''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day'' (1960) *'' Quiet Night'' (1961) *'' Funnel Web'' (1962) *'' The Stranger'' (1964) *''Enough to Make a Pair of Sailor's Trousers'' (1966) *'' Where Dead Men Lie'' (1971) *''Caddie'' (1976) *'' The Alternative'' (1977) *''Harlequin'' (1980) *''Undercover'' (1984) References External linksMary Mackayat IMDbMary Mackayat Ausstage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Harders
Jane Harders is an Australian actor. She has appeared in films, on television and in plays and musicals. She played Janet in the original Australian production of ''The Rocky Horror Show ''The Rocky Horror Show'' is a Musical theatre, musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to various B movies associated with the Science fiction film, science fiction and Horror film, horror genres from the 193 ...'' in 1974. Selected filmography Film Television Theatre Awards and nominations References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harders, Jane Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gaden
John Stuart Gaden (born 13 November 1941) is an Australian actor and director known particularly for his stage career, although he has also made some film and television appearances. Career John Gaden was born in Sydney where his father owned a successful legal practice, Gadens. He attended Cranbrook School, Sydney, where he performed in various school plays. After school he studied arts and law at the University of Sydney. After appearing with the Sydney University Dramatic Society, he decided to pursue a theatrical career in lieu of a legal one. His professional career started in the early 1960s. In 1970 he appeared in a production of ''Hadrian the Seventh'' in Perth, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and with fellow actors Arthur Dignam and Judy Nunn. Guthrie was impressed enough with Gaden to recommend him to Robin Lovejoy, who cast him in a production of ''The Crucible'', which resulted in a positive review from ''The Sydney Morning Heralds theatre critic Harry Kippax, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ewart
John Reford Ewart (26 February 1928 – 8 March 1994) was an Australian actor of radio, stage, television and film. Ewart was a double nominee (and one/time winner) of the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Early life Ewart was born in Melbourne, Victoria to Alfred Adam Ewart, an insurance agent and his wife Jennie Grace Madge Lois (nee Macauley). Career Ewart began his acting career when he was cast as Dopey at the age four in a 3XY radio production of ''Snow White''. At the age of 18, he made his film debut in the lead role of Mickey O'Riordan in Charles Chauvel's production of '' Sons of Matthew''. Ewart appeared in hundreds of Australian radio, theatre, film and television productions. To many thousands of Australians who grew up in the 1950s and '60s, he will be remembered as 'Jimmy', the boyishly cheeky co-presenter of the ABC Radio '' Children's Session'', and in the title role of its long-running serial '' The Muddle-Headed Wombat''. He was well known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Salter
June Marie Salter AM (22 June 193215 September 2001) was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television. She is best known for her character roles, in particular as schoolteacher Elizabeth McKenzie in the soap opera ''The Restless Years'' and for her regular guest appearances in ''A Country Practice'' as Matron Hilda Arrowsmith. Early life and education June Marie Salter was born on 22 June 1932 in Bexley, New South Wales, the youngest of six children of Arthur Edward Salter (born c. 1887) and his wife Edna Edythe Salter (died 24 July 1969), who married in 1916 and had a home on Henderson Road, Bexley. As a child, she studied piano and elocution and attended Kogarah Central Domestic Science Secondary School. She obtained her New South Wales Intermediate Certificate in 1947. Early career While working as a typist-receptionist, Salter joined the St George Players who played at St James' Hall (later called "Mercury Theatre" then "Phillip Street Theatre") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Curran
Lynette Curran is an Australian actress known for many roles in Australian television series and films, including the soap opera '' Bellbird'', and the films '' Country Town'' (1971) and ''Bliss'' (1985). Career Theatre She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes ''The Country Wife'', '' Rookery Nook'', ''Richard II'', ''Just Between Ourselves'', and ''Ashes'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also played in ''Steaming'' for the Seymour Centre in Sydney.Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) ''The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz'', Sunshine Books, 1984. p 54 Film and television Curran was a cast member of soap opera '' Bellbird'' when it started in 1967. She left the series permanently in 1974; at the time she left she was the program's last remaining original cast member. Curran acted in the film version of the serial '' Country Town'' (1971). She made several other film appearances in the 1970s, with roles in sex comedy '' Alvin Purple'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Forsythe
Drew Forsythe (born 23 August 1949) is an Australian actor, singer, writer, and comedian. He has appeared on film, stage, and television, as well as in satirical sketch comedy television programs. Early life Born in New South Wales to newsagent parents, Forsythe attended Atherton Primary School, far north Queensland. . He caught the acting bug when The Young Elizabethan Players performed ''Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...'' (featuring Kirrily Nolan as Ophelia) at his Charters Towers high school. Forsythe went on to study acting at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 1969. Career Theatre The title roles of the heroic Tonino and the foolish Zanetto in the Nick Enright/Terence Clarke (composer), Terence Clarke musical, ''The Venetian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
