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Eliza Fraser (film)
''Eliza Fraser'' is a 1976 Australian bawdy adventure drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ..., directed by Tim Burstall and starring Susannah York, Trevor Howard, Noel Ferrier and John Castle. The screenplay was written by David Williamson. The film was the first Australian film with a big-budget, costing A$1.2m to make. English actors Susannah York and Trevor Howard were brought from the United Kingdom to headline this Australian picture, which was filmed in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The film has been described as a classic Aussie tale of colonial hardship and bawdy beginnings, and has been described as a sex romp. Synopsis Captain James Fraser, and his young wife, Eliza Fraser, sail from Sydney on the ''Stirling Castle''. Captain Ror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Burstall
Timothy Burstall AM (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie '' Alvin Purple'' (1973) and its sequel '' Alvin Rides Again'' (1974). Burstall's films featured early appearances by many legendary Australian actors including Jack Thompson, Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, ''Alvin'' star Graeme Blundell, John Waters and Judy Davis. Speaking just after Burstall's death, David Williamson said that Burstall "couldn't stomach" Australia's lack of a film industry. "He was determined to do something about it and he had the energy and spirit to do it. (He) was a very important cultural figure: highly intelligent, widely read, with a succinct and often highly controversial opinion on everything." Life Burstall was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England in April 1927. His family came to Australia in 1937 after his father took up a chair as professor of engineering at the University of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frawley (actor)
John Frawley (18 August 1929 – 3 March 1999) was an Australian actor with a number of stage television and film credits to his name. Career Frawley started his professional career in 1948 in a film roleand worked in theatre from 1955, including a lengthy tour of ''Twelfth Night'', later he acted in ''King Lear'' and after a television career in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, which included episodes of ''The Prisoner'' and '' The Avengers'', Frawley appeared mainly in Australian films during the 1970s. He returned to television in the 1980s and 1990s, including appearances in ''Prisoner'' (a.k.a. ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'') and '' Brides of Christ''. Selected filmography Film * ''Flynn'' (1996) as Headmaster * ''Dallas Doll'' (1994) * ''Backstage'' (1988) * '' Call Me Mr. Brown'' (1986) as Captain Howson * '' The Humpty Dumpty Man'' (1986) * ''Annie's Coming Out'' (1984) as Harding * ''Harlequin'' (1980) as Dr Lovelock * ''The Timeless Land'' (1980) as Governor Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano and produces his own recordings and occasionally those of other artists. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Prog (magazine), Progressive Music Awards. Biography Early life Peter Hammill was born in Ealing, West London, and moved with his family to Derby when he was 12. He attended Beaumont College and Manchester University, where he studied Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Liberal Studies in Science. Hammill has stated that his grandfather was originally from Pakistan. Early career Hammill's solo career has coexisted with Van der Graaf Generator's activities. The band was offered a contract by Mercury Records in 1968, that only Hammill signed. When Van der Graaf Generator broke up in 1969 he wanted to record his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurie Fields
Maurice Fields (born Maurice Sheil, 4 August 1926 – 18 December 1995) was an Australian vaudeville performer, actor and stand-up comedian. Career Fields became a well-known face on television first thanks to his comic sketches on live programs like '' Sunnyside Up'' and later dramatic roles as the conniving John Quinney in ABC TV's ''Bellbird''. He also featured in many soap operas on commercial television, including ''Cop Shop'', '' The Box'', ''Prisoner'' (a small part playing crooked screw Leonard "Len" Murphy, and he had previously played two smaller parts in the show) and publican Vic Buckley in '' The Flying Doctors''. He was also a regular as Fred Farrell in situation comedy series '' Bobby Dazzler'' (1977) and did regular comedy segments on ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' alongside Shane Bourne where in turn they would read jokes sent in by viewers. During the 1980s, Fields also became known as the voice of Wally Walpamur (Chimpanzee's dressed as humans painting houses) in ... [...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] |
Abigail (actress)
Abigail Rogan (known Mononym, mononymously as Abigail; born 23 July 1946) is an English-born former actress particularly of television soap operas and film who was also briefly a vocalist. She emigrated from London in 1968 and became one of Australia's significant sex symbols of the early 1970s, promoted as a sultry blonde siren in the vein of Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.Giles, Nigel "Number 96 : Australian TV's Most Notorious Address" She appeared in numerous soap operas including, ''Number 96 (TV series), Number 96'', ''Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series), Sons and Daughters''. ''Family and Friends'' and ''Chances (TV series), Chances''. Early life Abigail was born in London, England in 1946 to a mother of Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) and Dutch Burghers descent. Educated in France, she started her career in her native United Kingdom, appearing in such productions as ''Robin Hood'' and the Continental Theatre. She arrived in Australia to study civil engineering w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Skinner
Carole Skinner (born 8 May 1944) is an Australian retired actress, particularly known for her performances in theatre and television, although she has had small parts in films. She is perhaps best known internationally for her soap opera role's as Nola McKenzie in the soap opera, ''Prisoner'', and '' Sons and Daughters'', as Doris Hudson, as well as miniseries, ''The Harp in the South'', and its sequel, ''Poor Man's Orange'', as Delie Stock. Biography Early career Skinner began her acting career in 1966, and first rose to prominence as an established theatre performer. Her performance as Olive in a production of '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1977 was met with high regard. She became well known for her screen roles, particularly in television, making her debut in 1971, when she made a guest appearance in the Australian series, ''Dynasty'', (not related to the American series of the same title) before going on to play a regular in '' La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arna-Maria Winchester
Arna-Maria Winchester was an Australian actress, appearing on film, TV and in the theatre. Career Winchester played the main role in the 1980 film '' The Chain Reaction'' and the 1983 TV series ''Kings''. Other featured screen roles include ''1915'', '' Ryan'' ''Homicide'' and ''Man of Letters''. Winchester's stage appearances include ''Come Live With Me'' ( Phillip Theatre, 1971), ''The Hell Of It'' and ''Baby Baby'' ( Stables Theatre, 1982) and ''La Musica'' (Lookout Theatre, 1996) Personal life Winchester was married to Terry Stanton and lived with him in Bali, where she opened a clothing boutique, while Stanton worked as a hotel manager. She gave birth to son, Putu (meaning 'first born') Sugiarta Winchester-Stanton in Denpasar on New Year's Eve. Putu is also an actor, best known for playing Dennis Klinsmann in ''Heartbreak High'' from 1997 to 1999, from the age of 18. While pregnant with Putu, Winchester was bitten by a wild dog and underwent injections which compromis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Kennedy (actor)
Gerard Kennedy (8 March 1932 – 21 April 2025) was an Australian double Gold Logie award-winning actor. Kennedy started his career in theatre, before going on to appear in early television series, primarily with Crawford Productions, with several roles in series ''Homicide'' and starring in the espionage series including ''Hunter'' as Kragg. He shot to fame, however, starring with Ted Hamilton and Terence Donovan in the police procedural '' Division 4'' as Detective Frank Banner, which won him back-to-back Gold Logies. Kennedy also appeared in the cult series ''Prisoner'', '' The Flying Doctors'' and in crime series '' Underbelly'' and had numerous feature film roles during a career that spanned 50 years in the industry.} Early life Kennedy was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 8 March 1932, the son of local actress and writer Phyllis Ophel. Career Kennedy played six different characters in guest appearances in Crawford Productions television series ''Homicide'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Miller (Australian Actor)
Dennis Miller, (1937 - 2 October 2022) was an Australian stage, television and film actor, best known for roles in TV movies and series. Miller started in the industry in 1958 and has acted in numerous television shows, he remained especially known for the ABC rural series '' Bellbird'' and recurring role on '' Blue Heelers'' as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle (1994–2000). Biography Miller born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1937, is notable for roles in serials such as ''Homicide'', '' Matlock Police'', '' The Flying Doctors'', '' G.P.'', '' Stingers'', '' A Country Practice'' and '' Water Rats'' and '' Elly & Jools''. He appeared in numerous films both theatrically released and made-for-TV, including '' The Everlasting Secret Family'', television movies, and miniseries In the United States, a miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Many miniseries can also be referred to, and shown, as a television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Scully (actor)
Sean Scully (born 28 September 1947) is an Australian actor and singer, active in film, television and theatre, most especially serials. Early life The son of actress and radio host Margaret Christensen, Scully was born in Sydney, New South Wales. Career Scully began his acting career at the age of 12 in the 1960 Children's Film Foundation film '' Hunted in Holland'', which won the Diploma of Honour at the Cannes Film Festival. Following that, he was signed by Walt Disney and starred in a number of Technicolor family feature films for the studio, including ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (filmed 1961, released 1962), in which he played both title characters, alongside Guy Williams as Miles Hendon, and also played opposite Patrick McGoohan in '' Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow'' (1963). Scully also starred in the 1962 Walt Disney movie '' Almost Angels''. He played Peter, a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir whose voice is near to breaking. He is extremely jealous of Toni Fiala, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Lissek
Leon Lissek (19 January 1939 – 13 January 2022) was an Australian-born British actor. He appeared in over 80 films in his career, which started with ''Marat/Sade'', his film roles include ''Time Bandits'', ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'', ''Nicholas and Alexandra'', and '' The Horsemen''. Lissek was also well known for his small screen roles in the TV drama series ''The Sullivans'' and ''EastEnders''. Biography Lissek was born in Australia on 19 January 1939. He started acting at the Kadimah in Melbourne, through his school-days and during his university year (he gave up the law course at Melbourne University about half-way through), when he was part of the Marlowe Society in late 1950s. He went to live in England in 1963. Lissek played Hans Kauffman on ''The Sullivans''. He also performed on stage. A review of ''Company'', which played in Exeter in 1980, said Lissek was "admirably cast". Lissek, who was Jewish, spoke in defence of performing ''The Merchant of Venice' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |