Jonathan Sweet is an Australian film, television and theatre

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Career

Sweet's career on Australian television began when he landed a co-starring role as Neal Winton in 1969 adventure TV series '' Riptide'', an Australian production starring American actor

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as Moss Andrews, the owner of a charter boat. He also played the part of Stephen Quinney in the

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series '' Bellbird''. In 1969 Sweet left Australia to pursue acting overseas in Britain, Europe, Canada and Argentina. His overseas credits during that time include war drama series '' Pathfinders'' (1972), sci-fi series ''

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'' (1973) and drama anthology series ''

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''. He returned to Australia in 1980 and appeared in long-running soap opera ''

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'' and short-lived series ''Sporting Chance'' (1981). In 1982, Sweet got his big break playing the title role in miniseries ''

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'', the story of an old hunchback living in Sydney at the turn of the century, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Stone. Sweet played Kenneth Oakley in legal series ''

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'' in 1984 for 5 episodes. He was then cast in the 1985 war miniseries ''

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'', portraying Private Bill Harris, a former British soldier who had absconded from Afghanistan to Australia. He also had guest roles in series such as ''

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'', ''

Secret Valley ''Secret Valley'' is a children's television adventure series created by Terry Bourke and Roger Mirams. It was produced by the Grundy Organisation from Australia in association with Telecip from France and (TVE) from Spain. It was first air ...

'', ''

Five Mile Creek ''Five Mile Creek'' is a western television drama series adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel ''The Cherokee Trail'' and produced in Australia. It starred Liz Burch, Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Michael Caton, Peter Carroll, ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Special Squad'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Mission: Impossible''. Sweet's film credits include period crime drama '' Squizzy Taylor'' (1982), western film ''

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'' (1990) alongside

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and the television movies '' The Highest Honour'' (1982), '' Queen of the Road'' (1984) and ''

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'' (1985) inspired by the real life Great Bookie Robbery committed in Melbourne, on 21 April 1976. His most recent film credit was action film ''Fink!'' (2005) in which he appeared alongside

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Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

As crew

References

External links

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Riptide
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