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Fresh Start (TV Series)
''Fresh Start'' is an Australian television series created for 1990's International Literacy Year. The series consists of two sections. One section is a series of six 10 minute documentaries while the other is 12 half hour dramas. The documentaries feature a wide range of subjects talking about the effects of low literacy and programs in place to improve literacy. The dramas follow an adult literacy teacher Kerry (Caz Lederman) who in each episode (named for the guest character) works with a new student who for different reasons are trying to improve their literacy. These characters include Billy (Dean Love), a mechanic who needs to learn to advance his career prospects, Linda (Anne Tenney), a country mother who can't read medicine labels, Mick (Denis Grosvenor), a prisoner who's cellmate has been writing for him and Marcia (Judith Stratford), a housewife who wants to read in church. Episodes *Billy ::written by Marion Ord. produced and directed by Jacqui Sykes ::cast: Dean Love, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caz Lederman
Caz Lederman (born c. 1951/1952), is an Australian former actress. Early life Lederman is Jewish and was born to Viennese parents who emigrated to Australia. She studied at University of New South Wales and took on early stage roles as a means to pay for her education. Career Lederman's acting career began with television commercials and bit parts in tv dramas and soap operas. She made her live debut in '' Tilly Devine'' at NIDA’s Jane Street Theatre, before spending two years working in Europe, North America and Israel. In 1978, she starred in the comedy play ''Father's Day'' in Sydney and Melbourne, alongside Carole Cook and Anne Haddy. Lederman appeared in numerous film and television series, including '' Silent Number'' and '' Young Doctors'' and both the film and TV versions of '' Number 96''. She played a lead role in the Crawford Productions Crawford Productions is an Australian Media (communication), media production company, focused on radio and television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Tenney
Anne Tenney (born 1954) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Melissa "Molly" Jones in the television drama ''A Country Practice'', Liz Taylor in ''Always Greener'', and as Sal Kerrigan opposite Michael Caton in the major hit film ''The Castle (1997 Australian film), The Castle''. Tenney started her career in guest roles in several Australian drama series, before joining the cast of ''A Country Practice'' in 1981. She left the show in 1985. She was then to have roles in ''Police Rescue'', ''Brides of Christ'', ''E Street (television show), E Street'', ''Water Rats (TV series), Water Rats'', ''Always Greener'', ''All Saints (TV series), All Saints'', ''headLand'' and ''Packed to the Rafters,'' On 16 September 2024, Tenney was named as part of the cast for Paramount+ series ''Playing Gracie Darling.'' Filmography Films Television Television guest appearances (as herself) Awards In 1985, Tenney won the 'Most Popular Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritchie Singer
Ritchie Singer is an Australian actor. Singer portrayed executive producer Richard Shapiro in the fictionalized 2005 American television movie/docudrama '' Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure'', based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera ''Dynasty''. He also played Terence James 'Terry' Madigan in season three of the Australian police procedural The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agency, law enforcement agencies ... ''Water Rats (TV series), Water Rats'' (1998). Singer graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art, NIDA in 1983. Filmography Film Television Stage Radio TVC References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Singer, Ritchie Australian male actors Living people National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni Year of birth m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gabriel
Ben Gabriel (25 February 1918 – 25 April 2012) was an English Australian character actor, director, voice artist and theatre founder. Gabriel had numerous appearances in stage and radio roles and in film and television. Early life Gabriel was born as James Vernon Gabriel in Weymouth, Dorset, England. His mother Ethel Florence McConnell, was born in Kent, England and was an actress and costume designer, who was professionally known as Ethel Gabriel (31 October 1888 – 23 May 1967) Ethel came to Australia in 1919 as a war bride and worked as an actress with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, featuring in such productions as Ray Lawler's ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.'' and also toured in that production in the West End and on Broadway, she appeared also in the '' 1959 film adaptation''. Gabriel grew up in Sydney and Wollongong and saw war service as a lance-sergeant for six years with the 9th division during World War II. He officially changed his stage name to Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Cartwright
Geoff Cartwright is an actor, director, award-winning audio book reader, poet, author and high school teacher. Career Cartwright is notable for his recurring role as Dr. Rob Bowen in the Australian drama '' All Saints'', and for his roles in ''White Collar Blue'', '' Water Rats'' and ''Murder Call''. In 1996 Cartwright won a TDK Australian Audio Book Award for his narration of Tim Winton's ''The Riders ''The Riders'' (1994) is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton published in 1994. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. Plot summary ''The Riders'' tells the story of an Australian man, Fred Scully, and his seven-year-old daughte ...''. Cartwright is also notable in the live theatre scene, in both Brisbane and Sydney. Formerly an English & Drama teacher at a Catholic college on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, he was also the artistic director of the Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe, which called the Star of the Sea Theatre, Manly as its home. Geoff directed numerous R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Weatherley (actor)
David John Weatherley (1 March 1939 – 12 December 2024) was an English-born New Zealand actor and voice artist known for his role as Barliman Butterbur in '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''. Life and career Weatherley was born in London on 1 March 1939. He moved to Canada in 1956 for a military career, serving five years in the Canadian Army. Weatherley eventually moved to New Zealand in the early 1960s to engage in a theatre acting career, where he was best known for his long association with the Mercury Theatre, Auckland. He worked in all major genres including radio drama, theatre, television and film. He was perhaps best known outside New Zealand for his series regular role as Spencer in ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive'', which was filmed in New Zealand. In 2016, he was presented with a Scroll of Honour from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand for his services to the entertainment industry. Weatherley died in Auckland Auckland ( ; ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Crombie
Lillian Crombie (1958 – 3 January 2024), also known as "Aunty Lillian", was an Aboriginal Australian actress and dancer, known for her work on stage, film and television. Early life and education Lillian Crombie was born in 1958. She was of the Pitjantjatjara/ Yankunytjatjara people of central Australia, but was taken from her parents at the age of seven and never saw them again. She grew up in a loving home with foster parents in Port Pirie, South Australia. Crombie trained in classical ballet at the Port Pirie Ballet School, before winning a scholarship to Dance Concert Limited in Sydney, which started at the beginning of 1975, when she was 16. There she learnt and performed various cultural dances, such as the maypole dance, and in that year also did a dance and drama course at the National Black Theatre in Redfern. She then joined National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) as one of their first intake of students in 1976, and joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Serio
Terry Serio is an Australian actor, director, musician and singer-songwriter. Career Film and television Serio's breakout role was as the lead, Mike in the 1982 Australian culture action film '' Running on Empty'', alongside Max Cullen and Penne Hackforth-Jones. Early roles in the film ''With Prejudice'' (1983) and TV films '' High Country'' (1983) and '' Rooted'' (1985) followed. In 1986 he played the lead in biographical miniseries '' Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe'' (for which he received AFI nomination for Best Actor) and in 1987 he played Franco in miniseries '' Fields of Fire''. Numerous guest roles in television series followed, including ''Rafferty's Rules'', ''The Flying Doctors'', ''A Country Practice'', '' Chances'', '' Phoenix'' and ''Police Rescue''. In 1995, he played the recurring role of Captain Sam Phillips in thirteen episodes of ''Ocean Girl'', before taking on further guest roles in ''Heartbreak High'', '' G.P.'', ''Flipper'', '' Fallen Angels'', '' W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |