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Intimate Strangers (miniseries)
''Intimate Strangers'' is an Australian mini series about a married couple put at risk when both parties become infatuated with other people.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p206 Cast * Carmen Duncan - Elodie * Kit Taylor - Greg * Lulu Pinkus - Dirk * Tony Bonner - Jerome Hartog * Oriana Panozzo References External links''Intimate Strangers''at IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ... 1980s Australian television miniseries 1981 Australian television series debuts 1981 Australian television series endings 1981 television films 1981 films {{Australia-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 18832 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Early life Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then moved to Melbourne, where she earned a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne ''The Sun News-Pictorial, Sun'' newspaper. She was a governess and journalist in Victoria, then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, ''The Pioneers'' (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize.Throssel, Ric "Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969", The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre (website) After her retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Bell (director)
Brian Bell (born 1947) is a New Zealand writer and director best known for his work at the ABC in Australia. He worked at the BBC before moving to Sydney in 1968. He worked at the ABC for a number of years before going freelance. Bell has also worked extensively in theatre. Select credits *''Contrabandits'' (1967) *'' I've Married A Bachelor'' (1968) *''Dynasty'' (1970) *''The Thursday Creek Mob'' (1971) *'' Redheap'' (1972) *''Certain Women'' (1973) *'' Serpent in the Rainbow'' (1973) *''Quartet'' (1974) *'' Shannon's Mob'' (1975) *''The Department ''The Department'' is a satirical comedy on BBC Radio 4 about a secret organisation with the power to influence every aspect of your life. The show is written and performed by Chris Addison, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman (cancelled after ...'' (1980) *'' Players to the Gallery'' (1980) *'' Intimate Strangers'' (1981) References External links *Brian Bellat Ausstage {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Brian New Zealand directors Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Carson (television Director)
Michael Carson (14 June 1947 – 14 May 2005) was an Australian television director who was responsible for some of Australia's most significant series in the last decades of the twentieth century. His work as a director, producer and script editor was recognised with AFI Awards, Logie Awards, Penguin Awards and AWGIE Awards. Life and career Carson was born in Sydney, Australia, and attended North Sydney Boys High School. He commenced work in the television industry as a studio hand and did all his training on the job.Buzo (2005) He started work with the Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, in the early 1970s.Frawley (2005) His first directing jobs included the rock 'n roll music programme ''GTK'', which combined live performances and interviews with cutting-edge bands and performers. He married television producer and director Sandra Levy in the 1970s, and in 1980 they had a son, Simon. They later divorced but maintained close ties. Carson was Course Director for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Duncan
Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian-born stage and screen actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally in the United States that spanned over 50 years. She was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1980 film ''Harlequin'', and was also known for the film '' Don't Let It Get You''. Her other film appearances include '' Touch and Go'' (1980) and '' Turkey Shoot'' (1982). She played Iris Wheeler in the American soap opera '' Another World'' from 1988 to 1994. Duncan appeared in numerous theatre roles between 1970 and 2015. Early life and career Duncan was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1942. She graduated in 1961 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Duncan was known to Australian audiences as a character actress in television, stage and films, as well as having appeared in television commercials. Her television roles included the series ''Hunter'' (1967) and she appeared in the eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Bonner
Anthony Frederick Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film, and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', later moving on to lead roles in the dramas '' Cop Shop'' and '' Skyways''. Early life and education Anthony Frederick Bonner was born in Manly, a northern beach suburb of Sydney. His grandfather, James Bonner, was a former Mayor of Manly and founding President of the Manly Life Saving Club. His father, Frederick Bonner, was a musical comedy actor at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney. His mother was born Josephine Sheidow and was, a 1935 article announcing her engagement to Frederick Bonner claimed, 'well known in the swimming world.' She was also known as a singer. After leaving school Bonner started work for a company supplying mannequins and other equipment for window dressing. He also worked part-time in his father's theatre as a wardrobe attendant, fostering his inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC TV (Australian TV Channel)
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship (broadcasting), flagship ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney. The very first public broadcasting, national public television station in Australia officially and formally formal full grand opening night ceremony took place by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies in ABN (TV station), Sydney at stroke of night 7:00:00pm Time in Australia, Sydney Time on 5 November 1956 as ABC National Television Service under the call sign ABN (TV station), ABN-2 with the very first main flagship television presented by Michael Charlton (journalist), Michael Charlton and James Dibble reading the very first television news, main flagship television news bulletin, followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Taylor
Christopher John 'Kit' Taylor (born 1942) is an Australian former actor, who started his career as a child performer. Early life Kit Taylor (born Christoper John Taylor) was born in April 1942 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and is the son of English-Australian actor Grant Taylor and Margaret Hazlett. He grew up in Potts Point, Sydney. Career Taylor made his acting debut at the age of twelve, portraying Jim Hawkins in both the film ''Long John Silver'' (1954) and the associated TV series '' The Adventures of Long John Silver'' (1956–1957). He went on to play the recurring roles of David Carmichael in sci-fi miniseries '' The Interpretaris'' (1966), Trooper Davis in soap opera '' The Box'' (1974), Warwick Thompson in '' Number 96'' (1975–1976), and both Tim Barclay and Peter O'Neill in Crawford Productions series ''Skyways'' (1979). He also appeared in numerous television guest roles, in series such as '' Consider Your Verdict'', ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lulu Pinkus
Lulu Pinkus is an Australian screenwriter, producer, stage, film and television actress. She made appearances on numerous television crime and police dramas during the 1970s and early 80s, including a nine-episode stint on ''Prisoner'', as well as supporting roles in a number of feature films. She was also the wife of Yahoo Serious and has been involved in producing all of his films: ''Young Einstein'', '' Reckless Kelly'' and ''Mr. Accident''. Pinkus is also an accomplished artist, having been featured in several art exhibitions. Career Pinkus made her television acting debut in 1975 with guest spots on ''Division 4'' and ''Homicide'', making a second appearance on the latter series a year later. She also appeared in the television miniseries '' Against the Wind'', ''Cop Shop'' and '' Chopper Squad'' in 1978. She also performed with the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory and as part of the Hoopla Foundation's reading of the play ''Freaks'' in 1978. She performed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriana Panozzo
''Sons and Daughters'' is an Australian Logie Award-winning soap opera/drama serial, broadcast by the Seven Network between January 1982 and December 1987 and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It was created by executive Reg Watson, and is distributed by Fremantle. Sons and Daughters is remembered for its regular use of dramatic end-of-season cliffhangers and its most famous character; Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton, initially played by Rowena Wallace, who became the second soap opera actor, rather than personality after Pat McDonald to win the Gold Logie award for her performance in the role - (McDonald had previously won the Gold Logie for her role in 70's soap opera '' Number 96'' as Dorrie Evans, coincidentally she also starred in Sons and Daughters, featuring for its entire run. Wallace decided to leave the series, and in 1985 her popular character was recast, with Belinda Giblin taking over the role, in a story-arc which sees the character receiving extensive p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Australian Television Miniseries
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and regent * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Australian Television Series Debuts
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz following his death on December 24. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
