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Boney (TV Series)
''Boney'' is an Australian television series produced by Fauna Productions during 1971 and 1972, featuring New Zealand actor James Laurenson in the title role of Bony (character), Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Two series, each of thirteen episodes, were filmed. They were adapted from the twenty-nine novels by Arthur Upfield featuring his title character, published from 1929 to 1964. The series is centred on Bonaparte, a highly educated, multiracial police inspector. His father was a white man and his mother was an Indigenous Australians, Australian Aboriginal. The casting of Laurenson, a white man who performed in dark make-up, was strongly criticised by the Australian Aboriginal community. They believed the part should have gone to an Aboriginal actor. Cast Main/regular * James Laurenson as Bony (character), Detective Inspector Bonaparte (Boney) (seasons 1 and 2) * Kate Fitzpatrick as Constable Alice McGorr (season 2 only) Guests (partial) Production Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), ''The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a Category of being, category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelia Frances
Cornelia Frances Zulver, OAM (7 April 1941 – 28 May 2018), credited professionally as Cornelia Frances, was an English-Australian actress. After starting her career in small cameos in films in her native England, she became best known for her acting career in Australia after emigrating there in the 1960s, particularly her iconic television soap opera roles with portrayals of nasty characters. Frances featured in numerous Crawford Production series, but first became notable for starring in '' The Young Doctors'' (1976–1978), as acidic Sister later Matron Grace Scott. Subsequently, she appeared in soap opera '' Sons and Daughters'' as Barbara Armstrong Hamilton on Network Seven (1982–1986). She appeared in the film version of regular series TV soap '' The Box''. She also worked on stage and in voice-over. She played Morag Bellingham in ''Home and Away'' from its inception in 1988. After leaving the series she made numerous guest appearances, then re-joined the series a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (actor)
John Waters (born 1948) is an English-born Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and musician. He is the son of Scottish-born British actor Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series '' Play School'' for 18 years. Career Music Waters was born in 1948Waters enjoying his "Peter Pan existence". ''The Age'', 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2013] in London, England. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass guitar player with 1960s London-based blues band The Riots before travelling to Australia, initially for an extended working holiday and then eventually settling there permanently. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Orcsik
John Orcsik (born 3 May 1946), credited also variously as Jon Orcsik, John Orschik, John Orscik and John Crosik, is an Australian television and film actor, screenwriter, director and producer of Hungarian descent, known for his television roles starting from the late 1960s, but also for the film version of the soap opera '' Number 96''. He was married to actress Paula Duncan. Career Orcsik, born in 1946 made his debut appearing in the rural drama soap opera '' Bellbird'', in 1967, subsequently he played various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''. He had a role in serial Number 96 in 1972, and subsequently reprised that role in the feature-film version of the serial filmed in December 1973. He later reappeared in that series late in its run, briefly playing a different character and this time credited as ''John Crosik''. He also appeared in the film ''Petersen'' (1974), and played a brief role in action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanie Drynan
Jeanie Drynan is an Australian film and television actress well known for her roles in the television series '' Class of '74'', as Muriel's mother in the 1994 film ''Muriel's Wedding'' and as solicitor Angela Jeffries in the cult classic television series '' Prisoner Cell Block H''. Early life Jean Julia Drynan's parents were James Joseph and Muriel Drynan. She grew up in the regional NSW towns of Lithgow and Coffs Harbour. She moved to the UK at the age of 15 with the intention of going to finishing school and instead studied acting at Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama (which was later absorbed into Queen Margaret University) in Scotland. She later trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Australia, graduating with a Diploma of Dramatic Art in 1961. Career Drynan started out in guest roles in numerous Australian television series including ''Hunter'', '' Skippy'', '' Riptide'', '' The Rovers'', ''Division 4'', '' The Link Men'', ''Delta'', ''Matlock P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Thompson (actor)
John Hadley Thompson, AM (né Pain; born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and a major figure of Australian cinema, particularly Australian New Wave. He is best known for his role as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as '' The Club'' (1980), '' Sunday Too Far Away'' (1975), '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982) and '' Petersen'' (1974). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society, and was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. Early life Born John Hadley Pain in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was five years old when his mother Marjorie died, leaving his father Harold (a purser for Qantas seconded to the RAAF during the war) unable to care for him and his brother, David. He was sent to "LakeHouse orphanage" in Narrabeen by his aunt and subsequently adopted by the poet and ABC broadcaster Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress and singer, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in '' The Avengers''Aaker, Everett (2006). ''Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 58. (1962–1964), Bond girl Pussy Galore in '' Goldfinger'' (1964), Julia Daggett in '' Shalako'' (1968), and Hera in '' Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963). She is also known for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom '' The Upper Hand'' (1990–1996). Early life Honor Blackman was born on 22 August 1925 at 200 Cumberland Road, Canning Town, West Ham, England, the daughter of Edith Eliza (Stokes) and Frederick Blackman, a civil service statistician. She attended North Ealing Primary School and Ealing County Grammar School for Girls. For her 15th birthday, her parents gave her acting lessons and began her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940. While attending the Guildhall School, Blackman worked as a clerical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Mercurio
Augustino Eugenio “Gus” Mercurio (10 August 19287 December 2010) was an American-Australian chiropractor, actor, boxing referee, boxing judge, and sports commentator. He was equally prominent as a character actor on film and television, and as a personality in the sports world. He was a long-time commentator on the Seven Network's ''World of Sport'' from 1976 to 1987. The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' described him as “one of the most recognised and loved faces in Australian television,” while boxing writer Paul Upham called him "one of the great characters of Australian boxing." Early life Of Sicilian descent, Mercurio was born in West Bend, Wisconsin near Milwaukee, in 1928. He was the eldest child of Vincent A. Mercurio and Cecilia W. "Mickey" Miller. He had two sisters, Gerie and Connie, and a brother, Tony. The elder Mercurio was a member of the Milwaukee mob, and according to his son, was verbally and emotionally abusive. His parents were divorced when he was seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Googie Withers
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers (12 March 191715 July 2011) was an English entertainer. She was a dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some seventy-three years in theatre, film, and television. She was a well-known actress and star of British films during and after the Second World War. She often featured in British productions, primarily in films with actor and producer John McCallum, whom she married and, in the late 1950s, emigrated together to her husband's native Australia, where they became best known in theatre. During the 1970s, she played prison governor Faye Boswell in the TV series '' Within These Walls'', and continued to feature in films. She won the inaugural British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 1955. Biography Withers was born in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan), to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and Lizette Wilhelmina Katarina, of Dutch, French and German descent. She was named after her aunt Georgette Ottoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gallacher
Frank Gallacher (7 April 1943 – 23 February 2009) was a Scottish-Australian actor. Early life Gallacher was born in Glasgow in 1943. In 1962, aged 19, he was working in London when his parents and younger sister decided to emigrate to Australia. Gallacher declined to join them, preferring to remain in London, but emigrated to Brisbane a year later where he worked as a schoolteacher. He spent three years in Papua New Guinea teaching English. On his return to Brisbane, he joined an amateur theatre company, which eventually gained him admission to the Queensland Theatre Company. Career In 1977, Gallacher was in Melbourne, performing in David Williamson's play '' The Club'', and he remained with the Melbourne Theatre Company from then on. In 2005, he played Lear in the MTC production of ''King Lear''. He was well known in the 1970s for his television roles in '' Shannon's Mob'' and '' The Lost Islands''. His film roles included ''Proof'' (1991), '' Dark City'' (1998), '' Till ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enid Lorimer
Enid Bosworth Lorimer OAM (born May Enid Bosworth Nunn; 27 November 188715 July 1982), was an English-born stage, radio, television and film actress, director, producer, writer, teacher and theosophist. She worked in her native England and also in Australia. She was a contemporary of Dame Sybil Thorndike and Dame Lilian Braithwaite. Early life Lorimer was born on 27 November 1887, in London, United Kingdom. Her father was Harold Marcus Nunn and her mother was Helen Louise Fowler (''née'' Bosworth) and she had a younger sister. Brought up in comfortable and privileged circumstances, her early education was supervised by a governess. She later attended a boarding school in Folkestone, Kent, and a finishing school in Switzerland where she learned French and German. In London, Lorimer trained under renowned teacher Elsie Fogerty, but when her father’s opposition to an acting career became am issue, she left home. She subsequently trained at Her Majesty's Theatre as a Shake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana McLean
Diana McLean is an Australian stage and television actress and voice over artist, best known for her role as Sister Vivienne Jeffries in TV soap opera ''The Young Doctors'' in 618 episodes from 1978 and 1981. Acting career Television and film McLean made guest appearances in the comedy series '' Good Morning Mr Doubleday'' (1969), the classic Australian police series ''Division 4'' (1970) and '' Boney'' (1973). She also appeared in a recurring role as Dorothy Dunlop in the Australian series ''Number 96''. In 1975, she appeared as Helen McGuire in nine episodes of the miniseries '' Ben Hall''. She then starred in a regular role as Sister Vivienne Jeffries (from 1978 until 1982) in the series ''The Young Doctors''. In 1981, she also starred in both the miniseries ''Winner Take All'', and the Ozploitation film, '' Early Frost''. In 1999, McLean played the part of Bess O'Brien in ''Neighbours'' for 10 episodes. She made further guest appearances in various TV series, and featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
