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Dynasty (Australian TV Series)
''Dynasty'' is an Australian TV series that aired from 7 October 1970 to 6 October 1971, based on the 1967 Tony Morphett novel of the same name which had been previously adapted as a television play. 1969 TV play The novel was first adapted as a television play produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), and broadcast in October 1969 as one installment of an anthology series of unrelated plays under the title ''Australian Plays''. The project was written by Morphett based on his novel, and directed in Melbourne by Oscar Whitbread. Morphett had previously written for ''Australian Playhouse''. Plot Inventor Jim Richards (Terry Norris) seeks financial backing from the Mason Corporation for his new machine. He finds himself in the middle of a power struggle for control of the corporation, including a family dispute. David Mason uses his affair with his sister-in-law Kathy to his advantage. Cast *Terry Norris (actor), Terry Norris as Jim Richards *Brian James (actor), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Morphett
Anthony David Morphett (10 March 1938 – 2 June 2018) was an Australian screenwriter, who created or co-created many Australian television series, including ''Dynasty (Australian TV series), Dynasty'', ''Certain Women (television series), Certain Women'', ''Sky Trackers'', ''Blue Heelers'', ''Water Rats (TV series), Water Rats'', ''Above the Law (TV series), Above the Law'' and ''Rain Shadow (TV series), Rain Shadow''. Morphett wrote eight novels, and wrote or co-wrote seven feature films, ten telemovies, twelve mini-series, and hundreds of episodes of television drama, as well as devising or co-devising seven TV series. He won 14 industry awards for TV screenwriting. Career Morphett started as a copy-boy and cadet reporter for ''The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Daily Telegraph'' in 1956. He moved to the ABC in 1957 where he worked in the ABC Talks Department for 10 years, presenting ''The Lively Arts'' and ''Spectrum''. While at the ABC he published his first novels. The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark McManus
Mark McManus (21 February 1935 – 6 June 1994) was a Scottish actor known for his roles in the British television series '' Sam,'' '' Bulman, The Brothers, Strangers,'' and '' Dramarama'' and the feature film '' 2000 Weeks''. He was best known for playing the tough Glaswegian Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running STV television series ''Taggart'' from 1983 until his death in 1994. Career McManus was born in Hamilton, Scotland, and moved to Hillingdon in London, England when he was three years old, until he moved again at the age of 16 to Australia, where he performed in amateur theatre groups that led him to becoming a professional actor. He appeared in the children's TV series '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'' and had a guest appearance in the long-running Australian police drama ''Homicide''. He also starred in Tim Burstall's feature film '' 2000 Weeks'' (1969), which was the first full-length Australian-produced feature made in Australia since Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jeffrey
Tom Morven Jeffrey (born 26 September 1938) is an Australian film and television producer and director. He worked at the ABC and BBC, becoming an ABC drama director in the late 1960s.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 294 In 1971, he became head of the Producers and Directors Guild of Australia. He was also a consultant on the Experimental Film Fund and on the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australian Council for the Arts.David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980, pp. 115–117 From the early 1980s he stopped directing and concentrated on producing.Interview with Tom Jeffrey, 12 November 1998 accessed 19 October 2012 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Oliver
Tom Oliver (born 12 June 1938) is a British naturalised Australian retired actor. Oliver is best known locally and internationally for his long-running role in TV soap opera ''Neighbours'' as Lou Carpenter, a role he played for 25 years becoming one of the longest serving cast members. Lou was known for his constant sparring with Harold Bishop (played by Ian Smith) and romance with Madge (played by Anne Charleston), as well as his trademark dirty laugh, which Oliver noted was inspired by Sid James. Oliver was a staple of the small screen from the early 1960s, until retiring in 2016. After appearing in numerous Crawford Productions police precedurals, he took the long term role in rural series '' Bellbird'' on the ABC, before starring in '' Number 96'' as Jack Sellers. Biography Early life and military Oliver was born in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, England and started appearing in amateur theatricals as an adolescent in Britain before pursuing a career as a jockey. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry McGuire
Kerry McGuire is an Australian actress. Early life McGuire was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She studied at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating with a Bachelor of Dramatic Acting in 1964. Career Film and TV McGuire's screen roles include her AACTA Award-winning role in ''Olive'' (1988) where she played the titular Olive Bodill, an actress battling cancer, '' Runaway Island'' (1982) as innkeeper Molly McKenzie and miniseries '' Against the Wind'' (1978) as Polly (also an innkeeper), the latter for which she won both a Sammy Award and a Logie Award. She later appeared as Diana Fraser, mother of doctors Lachlan and James Fraser on ''Home and Away'', on and off from 1997–1999, reprising the role for 2 further episodes in 2005. She made guest appearances throughout her career on tv series' such as '' Division 4'', '' Riptide'', '' Catwalk'', ''Homicide'', '' Boney'', '' Certain Women'', '' Skyways'', ''Prisoner'', '' Cop Shop'', '' A Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyn James
Lyn James (13 November 1929 – 31 May 2017), credited also as Marilyn James, was a Welsh-born actress of stage and screen and director, who became known for her career in England and later Australia, particularly as receptionist Helen Gordon in television soap opera '' The Young Doctors'' Biography She was born Margaret James, the daughter of theatre actor and producer Jack James and granddaughter of photographer Levi Ladd. and grew up in Rhondda in South Wales. After graduating from RADA, James made her professional debut as an actress in 1949, appearing in numerous plays and TV serials in England for the BBC. After meeting her husband they emigrated to Australia in 1965, and, credited now as "Lyn James", appeared in numerous Crawford Productions Crawford Productions is an Australian Media (communication), media production company, focused on radio and television production. Founded in Melbourne by Hector Crawford and his sister, actress and voice artist Dorothy Crawfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Ward (Australian Actor)
Anthony John "Tony" Ward (1924 – 9 May 2006) was an Australian television actor, director and producer and journalist. He is regarded as Australian television's original action star, on ''Hunter'', and was an inaugural reporter on two national current affairs programs, ''Seven Days'' and '' A Current Affair''. Early life Anthony John Ward was born in Sydney. His father was a public servant. He was educated at a Catholic primary school before going to Parramatta Marist High School, and then became a trainee radiographer at Lewisham Hospital in 1942. Career Early career in theatre After World War II, he developed an interest in theatre and acted in and directed productions for several Australian and New Zealand companies, including J. C. Williamson and Garnet H. Carroll. He appeared with actors such as Robert Morley, Emlyn Williams, John McCallum, and Googie Withers. Television Ward realised the potential of television and joined Channel 9 in Adelaide soon after tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Weingott
Owen Ash Weingott (21 June 1921 – 12 October 2002) was an Australian actor, director and drama teacher. Although primarily working in theatre, he appeared on radio and television in serials and made for television films and voice overs. Weingott was vice-president of the Australian actors union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. He appeared in the very first Australian soap opera '' Autumn Affair'', opposite Muriel Steinbeck, and is well known for his role as Mr. Walter Bertram, a demented school principal in the first season of ''Home and Away'' Early life Weingott was born in Sydney in 1921 and when he was 15 he began studying and performing with the Independent Theatre, then in King St., Sydney, under producer Doris Fitton, later at the Savoy Theatre in Bligh Street: '' 1066 and All That'', '' Six Characters in Search of an Author'', and ''Judgement Day.'' He learnt to fence from Frank Stuart at the Sydney Swords Club. He was given a role in the '' Insect Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Lazareff
Serge Constantine Lazareff (7 August 1944 – 20 August 2021) was an Australian actor and screenwriter/editor, who was born in Shanghai, China. He appeared in 54 roles from the late 1960s until 1999, before starting a second career as a writer for TV series. Acting Lazareff performed in many Australian television series from the late 1960s to the late 1990s and made numerous appearances in Crawford Productions police shows including ''The Sullivans'', ''Homicide (Australian TV series), Homicide'', ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'' and ''Chopper Squad''. He had a featured part in the 1970 ABC-TV drama series ''Dynasty''. Lazareff also appeared in ''Cash and Company, Cash & Co.'', a 1970s historical adventure series. Lazareff is probably best remembered by Australian audiences for his role in the 1970s TV drama ''Young Ramsay'', in which he starred alongside friend and co-star John Hargreaves (actor), John Hargreaves. He also appeared in ''The Young Doctors'' (playing fake Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Miles (Australian Actor)
Kevin Gordon Miles (17 April 1929 – 13 September 2024) was an Australian actor of theatre, television and film. He was best known for his small screen roles as Detective John Randall in '' The Link Men'' and as Godfrey Carson in the legal drama '' Carson's Law''. Miles also appeared in ''Delta'' (1969), ''Dynasty'' (1970) and '' The Power, The Passion'' (1989). Early life Miles was born on 17 April 1929 in Melbourne, Victoria, to a working class family as one of six children. He left school at age 12 or 13, but didn't have an interest in acting until his brother-in-law encouraged him to audition for the theatre. Career Miles' career began in theatre in 1949, appearing in J.C. Williamson productions. He then moved to the United Kingdom, touring England and Europe with the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh. In 1955 he also began appeared in television plays at the BBC. In the late 1960s he began appearing in guest roles on Australian tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tate (actor)
John Paul Tate (January 1915 – 19 March 1979) was an Australian actor. Early life Tate was born in Sydney, Australia in 1915. He was of Russian descent. Career After starting professionally with a part in a radio serial, Tate then gained small roles in several movies. He played Charles Ulm in the 1946 adventure film '' Smithy'' and had a recurring role as Jack Mason in the 1950s Australian soap ''Dynasty''. He was best known for appearing in the 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film '' On the Beach''. After his success in '' On the Beach'', Tate decided to move to England in the 1960s. where he appeared in various television series including '' The Saint'', ''Danger Man ''Danger Man'' (retitled ''Secret Agent'' in the United States for the revived series, and ''Destination Danger'' and ''John Drake'' in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again ...'', '' Man of the World'', The ''Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oracle (TV Series)
''The Oracle'' is a 1979 Australian TV series that aired on ABC TV about a talkback radio announcer. There was a controversial episode which featured a scene where a baby was killed. Cast Main * John Gregg *Pamela Gibbons *Julie Hamilton * Tracy Mann * Ruth Cracknell Guests * Maggie Kirkpatrick Episodes #Incest to Income Tax (aired 12 March 1979) #A Smack in the Mouth (aired 19 March 1979) #All That's Left of the Song (aired 26 March 1979) #Everything's Coming Up Roses (aired 2 April 1979) #You & the Night & the Muzak (aired 9 April 1979) #Time Wounds All Heels (aired 16 April 1979) #Six O'Clock High (aired 23 April 1979) #Win a Few, Lose a Few (aired 30 April 1979) #Take a Side, Any Side (aired 7 May 1979) #Fresh out of Miracles (aired 14 May 1979) #Black on the Line (aired 21 May 1979) #Live from Las Vegas (aired 28 May 1979) References External links''The Oracle''at Austlit''The Oracle''at IMDb''The Oracle''at National Film and Sound Archive The National Film a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |