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All Saints (season 9)
The ninth season of the long-running Australian medical drama '' All Saints'' began airing on 28 February 2006 and concluded on 21 November 2006 with a total of 40 episodes. Cast and characters Main cast Recurring cast Guest cast Wendy Strehlow, Ally Fowler, Elizabeth Alexander, Naomi Wallace, Trilby Beresford, Mark Owen-Taylor, Murray Bartlett, Zoe Carides, Barry Otto, Alex Cook, Peter Phelps, Lucy Bell, George Spartels George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1954) is an Australian actor, presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his mother's. He remains best known for his role ..., Geoff Morrell, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Gosia Dobrowolska, Chris Truswell, Zac Drayson, Lynette Curran, Anna Anderson, and Jacinta Stapleton. Episodes ''Please Note'': All episode titles are listed accurately as to how they appeared on the episode. References ;General * Zuk, T''All Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of the five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it was the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2024, Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Spartels
George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1954) is an Australian actor, presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera ''Neighbours''. Career Spartels has guest starred in many Australian television series from the 1970s to the present, most notably, ''Prisoner'' and '' Bellbird'' and in ''Neighbours'' playing family patriarch Benito Alessi. He has also appeared in a number of episodes of medical drama series '' All Saints'' and serial ''Packed to the Rafters'' as Carbo's father. Other roles included '' Cop Shop'', ''Punishment'' and '' The Bluestone Boys'', as well as Blackfinger in the movie '' Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome'' in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. Spartels was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure on ABC's '' Play School'', over a period of 14 years between 1985 and 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Bufalo
Nicholas Bufalo (born 1961 or 1962) is an Australian actor and director, perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Ben Green in ''A Country Practice'' and for directing a number of episodes for the soap opera ''Neighbours''. He starred in the short-lived sitcom '' Bingles'' and the 1993 feature film '' Gino''. He is also a founding member of ''The D-Generation''. His directing work includes episodes of ''Home and Away'', ''City Homicide'', and ''Packed to the Rafters''. In 2008, Bufalo received an Australian Directors' Guild Award nomination. Early life Before his acting career began, Bufalo lived with his retired parents, his elder brother and younger sister in Melbourne. After leaving school, Bufalo gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Melbourne, and planned to get his Diploma of Education. He originally intended to become a teacher and had not considered an acting career, until he took a year long drama course and became a cast member and writer for a university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacinta Stapleton
Jacinta Patrice Stapleton (born 6 June 1979) is an Australian actress. Best known for her role as Amy Greenwood in the Australian television soap opera ''Neighbours'' from 1997–2000, 2005 and 2020–2023). Her most notable role was playing undercover police officer Christina Dichiera in the primetime crime drama television series '' Stingers''. Her performance garnered an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. She is the sister of '' Blindspot'' actor Sullivan Stapleton. Early life Stapleton was born in Malvern, Victoria. Her brother Sullivan Stapleton is also an actor. They both joined an acting agency from a young age. When she was six years old, Stapleton made her first television appearance in a commercial. She appeared in almost 60 commercials and did some modelling work. Stapleton studied drama, theatre and dance at Sandringham Secondary College. Career Stapleton's starred in the 1988 film '' Boulevard of Broken Dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Anderson
Anna Anderson (born Franziska Schanzkowska; 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra, was murdered along with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but the location of her body was unknown until 2007.Coble et al.; Rogaev et al. In 1920, Anderson was institutionalized in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt in Berlin. At first, she went by the name ''Fräulein Unbekannt'' (German for Miss Unknown) as she refused to reveal her identity. Later, she used the name Tschaikovsky and then Anderson. In March 1922, claims that Anderson was a Russian grand duchess received public attention. Most members of Grand Duchess Anastasia's family and those who had known her, including court tutor Pierre Gilliard, said Anderson was an impostor but others were conv ... [...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] |
Zac Drayson
Zac Drayson (born 14 January 1983) is an Australian actor. Early life Drayson was born Zachary Lowell Drayson in Sydney, New South Wales. Career He is best known for the role of Will Smith, one of Irene Roberts' ( Lynne McGranger) many foster children in the soap opera ''Home and Away''. He was a regular from 1998–2002 and made occasional guest appearances from 2003 to 2005. His character, Will, left Summer Bay after marrying the mother of his child Lily, Gypsy Nash ( Kimberley Cooper). Will later returned to the Bay on a number of occasions to see his friends and family. His first being when brother Nick ( Chris Egan) ran away as he was in trouble, he later returned after drifting apart from Gypsy. On this occasion Will hoped to win back his ex-girlfriend Dani Sutherland (Tammin Sursok) but she turned him down and told him to repair his rocky marriage. He also returned for his younger sister Hayley Lawson's (Bec Hewitt) wedding to Noah (Beau Brady Beau Brady (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Truswell
Christopher Truswell (born 31 January 1966), is an English-born Australian actor, musician and voice-over best known as Gerald "Nudge" Noritas in the Australian TV sitcom '' Hey Dad..!'' He voiced the character of Rune Haako in the film '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' which was filmed in Sydney, Australia. Truswell got his first acting role at aged 17, in the Australian film '' Fast Talking'' playing the character Moose. Truswell also had a guest role in an episode of Australian hospital drama '' All Saints'' and ''Packed to the Rafters ''Packed to the Rafters'' is an Australian family-oriented comedy drama television program which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The show continued on Tuesdays in this timeslot for its entire run. The dr ...''. Truswell also appeared in the third installment of the TV series '' Underbelly''. Filmography Film Television Discography Albums References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosia Dobrowolska
Małgorzata Dobrowolska (born 2 June 1958, in Kamienna Góra), known as Gosia Dobrowolska, is a Polish-born Australian actress. Biography She has one brother, Janusz Dobrowolski, who also made a minor appearance in the 1984 film, '' Silver City''. After moving to Australia in the 1980s, Dobrowolska's first Australian film was '' Silver City'', where she played a Polish immigrant.Stratton, pp. 49–53. Paul Cox specifically wrote the 1991 film '' A Woman's Tale'' for Sheila Florance Sheila Mary Florance (24 July 1916 – 12 October 1991) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, television and film. Born in Melbourne, she married an Englishman in 1934 and relocated to London. Her early career was based .... Directed by Cox, Dobrowolska plays a nurse who befriends an elderly woman ( Florance) dying of cancer. Filmography Film Television Stage Sources * Stratton, D. (1990) ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Tony Llewellyn-Jones is a British-born Australian actor. He was nominated for the 1976 AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in '' Picnic at Hanging Rock''. Born in London, England, Llewellyn-Jones lived in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Zimbabwe before moving to Australia in 1965. He is the son of Dr Derek Llewellyn-Jones and Elisabeth Kirkby. He has performed in films, such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'', on TV, such as a long running role on '' G.P.'', and on stage, working with Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics. Founded by actor John Bell and based in Sydney, it is Australia's only national theatre company. Apart f .... References External links * Biographical cuttings on Tony Llewellyn-Jones, actor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journalsat the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Morrell (actor)
Geoff Morrell (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian actor. Early life Morrell was born in Fairfield in Western Sydney, where his father was a schoolteacher. The family moved to Wollongong when Morrell was nine. He finished high school without doing well, academically. He subsequently worked at the Port Kembla Steelworks, but decided to repeat year 12, and after applying himself second time around, topped the HSC. Morrell received a NSW Teacher's Scholarship and studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Wollongong. While studying, he made his stage debut as Algernon in ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. He was also President of the Student Representative Council. He graduated in 1979. Career Morrell began his career in theatre acting, becoming a founding member of the Theatre South organisation. In 1983, he briefly moved to England, featuring in a number of productions there. In 1985, he branched into film acting, with a minor role in a telemovie version of Osca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Bell
Lucy Bell (born 23 December 1968) is an English-born Australian actress who appears in Australian television, film and theatre. Early life Bell was born in 1968 in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, to Australian actor/director John Bell and Polish-born Australian actress Anna Volska, while they were working for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She grew up alongside older sister Hilary Bell, who is an accomplished playwright. Bell studied at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1991. Career Television Bell began her career in 1981, with a guest role in the miniseries ''A Town Like Alice''. For several years she then appeared in television guest roles, before securing a lead role as Kate Logan in '' Snowy'' in 1993. In 1994 and 1996, Bell had two recurring roles in '' G.P.''. She then played the co-lead role of Detective Tessa Vance in '' Murder Call'' alongside Peter Mochrie across three seasons, from 1997 until 2000. In 2003, she starred in the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
