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List Of Prisoner Cast Members ...
The following is a List of ''Prisoner'' cast members, ordered by number of episodes they appeared in. This list contains actors from the Australian television series ''Prisoner''. List of ''Prisoner'' cast The following list includes actors who were regular credited cast members that appeared in 20 or more episodes of the series. See also * List of Prisoner characters – prison staff * List of Prisoner characters – inmates * List of Prisoner characters - miscellaneous Notes References {{Prisoner (TV series), state=expanded Prisoner Prisoner A prisoner, also known as an inmate or detainee, is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement or captivity in a prison or physical restraint. The term usually applies to one serving a Sentence (law), se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actors
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Gill
Terry Gill (25 October 1939 – 25 February 2015) was an English Australian actor, theatre owner, producer, director and writer. A character actor, he carved a niche in Australian television playing police officers. He appeared in over 26 Australian television productions either as a regular or in guest roles. He was often associated with Crawford Productions and Reg Grundy Organisation. Early life Gill was born on 25 October 1939 in England, Gill never knew his father. He immigrated to Australia with his actress wife Carole Ann Gill. Career Gill was a recurring cast member in the women's prison drama ''Prisoner'' as Det. Insp. Jack Grace, a regular cast member as Sgt. Jack Carruthers in '' The Flying Doctors'' and played another recurring role in ''Blue Heelers'' as Superintendent Clive Adamson. He appeared in a guest role on ''Neighbours''. Gill appeared in '' Crocodile Dundee'' as the leader of a group of kangaroo shooters whom Dundee (Paul Hogan) fights in the Walkabout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Gilmour (actor)
Ian Gilmour is a New Zealand-born actor and director who has worked mostly in Australia. Career Television He has acted in several Australian television series, most notably as Kevin Burns in ''Prisoner'' in 1980. Other credits include '' The Box'', '' Chopper Squad'', '' Kingswood Country'', '' Waterloo Station'', ''A Country Practice'' and ''The Flying Doctors''.Albert Moran and Chris Keating Film Film credits include: ''The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'', '' The Odd Angry Shot'', '' Silver City'', ''The Coca-Cola Kid'', ''Malpractice'' and ''A Cry in the Dark''. Directing He subsequently moved away from acting to become a director. His directorial credits in television include: ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Heartbreak High'', '' Water Rats'', '' McLeod's Daughters'', '' Flipper'' and ''Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mallaby (actor)
George Frederick Mallaby (4 November 1939 – 12 July 2004) was an English-born actor and screenwriter, best known for his roles in television in Australia, primarily in series playing tough cops including roles in ''Homicide'', '' The Box'' and ''Cop Shop'' and in his latter career in his native England. Personal life Mallaby was born in Hartlepool, United Kingdom, and moved to Australia with his parents when he was 16. His father was a policeman. Mallaby's first jobs were signwriting and crayfishing. He was married to Ruth Bass in 1968 and they divorced in 1975. Mallaby started one of Australia's first hazelnut farms, something he saw as "his basic protection against the insecurity of show business" He suffered a stroke in 1994, and subsequently used a wheelchair. He died of congestive heart failure in 2004. He was survived by his widow Lenice, sons Guy and Luke, and daughter Kirsti from his first marriage. Career Mallaby made his acting debut at the Adelaide Festival of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Maughan
Monica Cresswell Maughan (née Wood, 15 September 1933 – 8 January 2010) was an Australian actor with roles in theatre, radio, television, film and ballet over a career spanning 52 years. Early life and education She was born Monica Cresswell Wood in Tonga to Australian missionaries Rev. Dr A. Harold Wood and medical doctor Olive Wood (née O'Reilly). She had 5 brothers and sisters, including Dr Elizabeth Wood-Ellem and Rev. Dr H. D'Arcy Wood. The family moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1937 – Monica was three-and-a-half and spoke no English – and shortly afterwards to Melbourne, where her father became principal of Methodist Ladies' College (MLC) and her mother his unofficial deputy. Monica attended MLC, where she received her only formal drama training with speech teacher Dorothy Dwyer, and went on to study French at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1959 with a BA. Monica was a member of the Melbourne University Dramatic Club, where she adopted the stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Thornton
Sigrid Madeline Thornton (born 12 February 1959) is an Australian film and television actress. Her television work includes ''Prisoner'' (1979–80), '' All the Rivers Run'' (1983), '' SeaChange'' (1998–2019) and '' Wentworth'' (2016–2018). She also starred in the American Western series ''Paradise'' (1988–1991). Her film appearances include '' Snapshot'' (1979), '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982), '' Street Hero'' (1984) and '' Face to Face'' (2011). She won the AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for the 2015 miniseries '' Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door''. Biography Early years Thornton was born in Canberra, the daughter of Merle, an academic and writer, and Neil Thornton, an academic. She was raised in Brisbane, attending St. Peter's Lutheran College. For two years, she lived in London, where she was a member of the Unicorn Theatre. Back in Brisbane she attended Twelfth Night Theatre Junior Workshop and in 1970, during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Smith (actor)
Ian Smith (born 19 June 1938) is an Australian former actor, television producer and screenwriter. Smith is best known for his television roles most especially his lengthy tenure on serial ''Neighbours'' as Harold Bishop from 1987 until 1991, he returned as a regular again in 1996 and left in 2009, though has returned in guest parts in 2011, 2015, 2022, 2023 and 2024-2025 respectively. Previously, Smith had appeared on the cult series ''Prisoner'' in the recurring roles as Head of the Corrections Department, Ted Douglas. Smith also worked on that series as an executive producer and screenwriter. In 2023 Smith stated he would make some guest appearances in the relaunch of ''Neighbours'', but also said he was happy to call it a day. However in 2024 he returned to the role. On 2 December 2024, it was announced that Smith would depart ''Neighbours'' again after he revealed that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Career Early career Smith started appearing in television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reylene Pearce
Reylene Pearce briefly billed as Raelene Pearce and Rey Pearce, is an Australian actress, best known for her long-running role in the television drama series ''Prisoner'' as Phyllis Hunt. She appeared in the show for 141 episodes from 1979 to 1984, during which time the role had developed from a background bit part to a central character. Post ''Prisoner'' she had several guest roles in TV series ''Neighbours'' and regularly appeared in Timothy Spanos's films and limited series including a leading role in ''Celebrity House Cleaner'', and as Nola Skinner in the film ''Boronia Boys'' and the spin off ''Boronia Backpackers''. She played a chocolate addicted police informer called Chocky in the comedy series ''Sizzler '77''. In 2021, Pearce gave an extensive interview with ''Prisoner (TV series) ''Prisoner'' (known in the UK and the US as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'' and in Canada as ''Caged Women'') is an Australian television soap opera, which was broadcast on Network Ten ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith McGrath
Judith McGrath (21 April 1947 – 20 October 2017) was an Australian actress. She was known for her roles as Colleen Powell in ''Prisoner'', Matron Gribble in ''Round the Twist'', Bernice Hudson in ''A Country Practice'', and Yvonne 'Von' Ryan in '' All Saints''. Biography McGrath was known for her television roles, including soap operas ''Prisoner'' (1979–84), as Deputy Governor/Officer Colleen "Poface" Powell, ''A Country Practice'' (1992–93) as hippy Bernice Hudson and for her Logie Award-nominated role in the medical drama '' All Saints'' as Nurse Yvonne "Von" Ryan (1998–2009) and her comedy roles in children's series ''Round the Twist'' as Matron Cecilia Gribble. McGrath was known for playing characters with a dry, often sarcastic wit. Early life Born in Brisbane, McGrath began her career at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, and was a member of Twelfth Night Theatre under artistic director Joan Whalley. She also played Grace in the 1969 film ''Age of Consent''. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Maguire
Gerard Maguire (born 25 September 1945) also credited as Gerard McGuire, is an Australian actor, producer and screenwriter best known for his role in ''Prisoner'' as Deputy Governor, ''Jim Fletcher''. Often appearing on Australian television police dramas and soap operas throughout the 1970s and 80s, he is also one of Australia's top voice actors, voicing numerous commercials and narrations during the 1990s and early 2000s. Early life Maguire was born in 1945 and began acting during the late 1960s, shortly after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Diploma of Dramatic Art in 1967. Out of 3,000 applicants, he was one of 15 students to complete the program. Career Early career After minor one-time roles on the television series ''Riptide'' and '' The Link Men'', Maguire made his feature film debut in ''The Demonstrator'' with Joe James and Irene Inescort. In the film, he portrayed university student Steve Slater whose political differences with his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jude Kuring
Judith Kuring (born 23 November 1948) known Jude Kuring is an Australian actress who appeared in theatre, film and television during the late 1970s and early 80s. She remains best known for her stint as the recurring character of petty criminal Noeline Bourke in the soap opera ''Prisoner'' in 1979 until 1980. Kuring had small roles in films including '' The Singer and the Dancer'', ''Journey Among Women'', ''Newsfront'', '' The Journalist'', ...Maybe This Time and ''Prisoner Queen''. Television and film Although making her first appearance on the police drama ''Homicide'' in 1971, Kuring would not begin television acting for another four years until being cast in a minor role in the 1975 television movie '' They Don't Clap Losers''. During the next few years, she was seen on the television series '' Alvin Purple'' as well as playing various characters on comedy shows including '' Wollongong the Brave''. In 1977, Kuring made her film debut in '' The Singer and the Dancer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Westmore
Joy Westmore (; 1932 – 5 November 2020) was an Australian actress on radio, stage and television, and in voice-over. She was best known to local and international television viewers for her long-running role in ''Prisoner'' as the friendly but highly ineffectual bespectacled officer Joyce Barry, appearing from the first season in 1979 until the final episode in 1986 and smaller roles in ''Neighbours'' in 1991 and 2003. Career Westmore had been an actress since 1950. She read commercials on radio and was particularly known for her performances opposite Barry Humphries's alter ego Dame Edna Everage. She also appeared in early television comedy sketches with Graham Kennedy and Ernie Sigley. She made her small-screen debut in the TV movie ''The Sentimental Bloke'', and subsequently had roles in the soap ''The Sullivans'' and in '' Bellbird'', before taking on the longer-lasting role of Officer Joyce Barry in ''Prisoner''. She was a recurring cast member throughout the first five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
