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Number 96 (film)
''Number 96: The Movie'' is an Australian drama film, released in 1974 and based on the television soap opera of the same title that was then running on the 0-10 network. The film features nearly all the show's regular cast, and was created by the show's creative team, Cash Harmon Productions with the screenplay by David Sale and Johnny Whyte and directed by Peter Benardos and Brian Phillis. The film's drawcard was that the picture was shot in color, whilst at that time the regular serial was still broadcasting in monochrome. The film also has more revealing nudity than was allowed on TV at the time. Plot The film starts with Vera Collins being gang raped by a group of bikers, which affects troubled romance with politician Nick Brent. She starts a new business endeavour with Maggie Cameron and Simon Carr, a character that they had a bitter rivalry over in the regular TV series. Aldo Godolfus has been fraudulently withholding cash takings from the deli to avoid paying income ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number 96 (TV Series)
''Number 96'' is an Australian primetime soap opera that aired on 0-10 Network (the forerunner of what is now Network Ten) and was produced by Cash Harmon Television from 13 March 1972 to 11 August 1977, originally broadcast in the primetime slot of 8:30 pm for 5 x half-hour episodes every weeknight, then later 2 x one hour episodes screened per week. The series follows the lives of the residents and visitors of a fictional four story inner Sydney apartment block located at 96 Lindsay Street, Paddington (hence the title "96") Originally broadcast in black and white monochrome until halfway through its run. From March 1975, it was seen in colour, after networks switched over to Television in Australia, colour television broadcasting in Australia History and background Number 96, was notable for breaking new ground and introducing controversial and taboo subject matter to Australian television, at the time not seen anywhere in the world, including the United Kingdom or United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunney Brooke
Bunney Brooke (9 January 1925 – 2 April 2000), born as Dorothy Jean Cronin, was an Australian actress, creator, producer, director, designer, playwright and casting agent, best known for her being one of the early faces of Australian television. Known for her television, movie, theatre acting and comedy roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in the soap opera and movie release version of ''Number 96'' in the 1970s (a role for which she won a Silver Logie Award), and in her later years to a new generation of viewers in her role as Helen "Nell" Rickards in children's series ''Round the Twist'' (1989 and 1992) and her role as Violet "Vi" Patchett in '' E Street'' (1990). Personal life Brooke was born as Dorothy Jean Cronin on 9 January in 1925 Bendigo, Victoria, to Fred Cronin and Nellie Gorman and was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. She was raised by either by an aunt and uncle, As a young adult, she saw marriage as a means of escape, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Orcsik
John Orcsik (born 3 May 1946), credited also variously as Jon Orcsik, John Orschik, John Orscik and John Crosik, is an Australian television and film actor, screenwriter, director and producer of Hungarian descent, known for his television roles starting from the late 1960s, but also for the film version of the soap opera '' Number 96''. He was married to actress Paula Duncan. Career Orcsik, born in 1946 made his debut appearing in the rural drama soap opera '' Bellbird'', in 1967, subsequently he played various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''. He had a role in serial Number 96 in 1972, and subsequently reprised that role in the feature-film version of the serial filmed in December 1973. He later reappeared in that series late in its run, briefly playing a different character and this time credited as ''John Crosik''. He also appeared in the film ''Petersen'' (1974), and played a brief role in action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thelma Scott
Thelma Marjorie Scott (17 June 1913 – 23 November 2006) was an Australian character actress whose six-decade career in theatre, radio, film and Australian made her one of her country's most recognisable and beloved personalities. Having started her career in the early 1930s in theatre and film productions, she became one of the nation's biggest radio performers, during the 1940s featuring in productions such as ''Big Sister'' and ''Blue Hills (radio serial), Blue Hills''. She returned to make TV films in the early late 1950s and then became a star on television after it was launched in Australia. She became best known for roles in soap operas including ''Number 96 (TV series), Number 96'' as Claire Houghton and Mrs. Jennings in ''Richmond Hill (TV series), Richmond Hill''. Theatre Thelma Scott began her career in the theatre in 1931 at the age of 18, having joined the firm of theatrical impresario Gregan McMahon's company "Gregan McMahon Players". Her first professional ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Welch
Bettina Catherine Welch (14 March 1921 – 5 March 1993) was a New Zealand-born Australia-based actress, primarily in radio and theatre and of the latter in television roles. She was best known for her role in television soap opera ''Number 96'' as Maggie Cameron, a scheming businesswoman and fashion editor. The series creator and writer David Sale, stated she was the first major bitch on television, long before Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins)Giles, Nigel "NUMBER 96: Australia's Most Notorious Address" published by Melbourne Books 2007 Early life Welch was born Wellington, New Zealand as Betty Kathrine in March 1921. Acting career Welch started her acting career in theatre in 1939. when she arrived in Sydney from New Zealand with her parents on holiday. In Sydney she won a competition that led to her join J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and she also began acting on Australian radio. Her training with J. C. Williamson led to a succession of theatre roles with the compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chard Hayward
Chard Hayward (born Roy Hayward, 1949) is a Welsh-born Australian-American former actor, director, writer, producer and singer. He is best known for his role of camp barman Dudley Butterfield in the 1970s television soap opera '' Number 96'', he had previously appeared in a small role as a hippie in earlier episodes. Since the early 90s he has been based in the US. Biography Early life Born as Roy Hayward in Swansea, Wales, in 1949, he initially pursued a career in the military, and at 19 become a commissioned as an officer in the engineers, but decided it was not for him. After jobs as an actuary and part-time work in catering, Hayward heard about the National Institute of Dramatic Art, auditioned, and was accepted. However, he left NIDA after only 12 months to join the Pageant Theatre Company, which toured schools throughout New South Wales. He eventually worked at both directing and producing plays for the company. as well as acting in plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Lee (actress)
Elaine Joyce Knoesen (23 February 1939 – 17 September 2014) better known professionally as Elaine Lee, was a South African-born actress of radio and theatre and stage. She made her film debut in her native South Africa in 1968, but became best known in Australia for her role of fashion designer Vera Collins Sutton in the 1970s television soap opera ''Number 96''. Career Lee was born in 1939 in Springs, Transvaal Province (present-day Gauteng), and grew up on a gold mine until her father, an electrician, died when she was nine. She was brought up by her mother and had a sister Barbara. A former waitress, her acting career began in the 1960s in Johannesburg where she became a stage manager for a theatrical company and acted extensively in the theatre and on radio, starring in productions throughout her native South Africa, as well as Zimbabwe and Zambia. Lee emigrated to Australia where she became well known Vera Collins in ''Number 96'', starting in 1972. Lee was known as a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Kevin
Jeff Kevin (born 1945) also known as Jeffrey Kevin, is an Australian actor, theatre director, choreographer, writer and former drama lecturer best known for portraying Arnold Feather in 338 episodes of the television soap opera ''Number 96'', from 1972 to 1977. His character was involved in some of the more-remarkable story lines in the program, including his marriage to Patti Olsen and her subsequent death at the hands of the "Pantyhose Strangler". He also fell in love with Robyn Ross, who he did not realise was transgender. That broke new ground for a TV serial, in that Ross was played by cabaret artist '' Carlotta'', who was the first transgender actress to portray a transgender character anywhere in the world. Career Kevin was born in 1945 and started his performance career in theatre in the late 1960s and by the early 1970s, started appearing in several television guest appearances, including roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas ''Homicide'' and ''Division 4' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Kirkby
Elisabeth Wilma Burton Kirkby (born 26 January 1921), alternatively Elizabeth Kirkby, is a British-born Australian retired politician, actress, radio broadcaster, producer, director and screenwriter. Kirkby entered politics in 1977 serving as State Parliamentary Leader with the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1981 to 1998, after which she served a shorter tenure with the Australian Progressive Alliance party with a seat on local government, as a councillor for Temora from 1999 and 2004. Prior to her political career Kirkby worked in the entertainment arts, having started as an Assistant stage manager in her native England in 1938 before becoming an actress in theatre, radio, television and film productions. after working for some years in England, starting her career, she relocated to British Malaya in 1950, after her husband was offered a medical position there, and noting the lack of theatre, served instead as a radio broadcaster, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Elliott (actor)
James Campbell Elliott (11 June 1928 – 12 February 2011) alternately James Eliott and Elliot James, was a Scottish-born Australian radio, theatre, television and film actor. Elliott was best known as an original character in the 1970s television soap opera ''Number 96'' as Alf Sutcliffe opposite co-star Elisabeth Kirkby who played his wife Lucy Sutcliffe. Biography James Campbell Elliott was born in Glasgow, Scotland the second of 5 children to John Elliott and Katherine Campbell, and grew up in the Kelvinbridge area. He emigrated from Scotland to Australia in December 1949, and took parts in radio plays and serials, and made several guesting parts in drama series including '' Consider Your Verdict'' and ''The Link Men'' and played Guildenstern in an ABC TV play of ''Hamlet'', this being the first Shakespearean drama produced for Australian television. Other Shakespearean roles include Capulet in a theatre version ''Romeo and Juliet'' and a supporting role again at the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alister Smart
Alister Smart (born 1935)GILES, NIGEL "Number 96: Australia's Most Notorious Address" also credited as Alastair Smart, is an Australian retired television presenter, actor, television director and screenwriter. A staple of the small screen, he appeared in productions in England, before returning to Australia, and had roles in television plays, telefilms and soap opera/serials with numerous credits from the late 1950s until the mid-1990s. Smart is best known for his extended role as a presenter on the children's TV series '' Play School'' spanning from 1966 to 1993. He is also recognized for his appearances with fellow members of '' Play School'', including Don Spencer on tie-in records released for ABC Music, as well as in audiobooks. As a presenter on ''Play School'' he had one of the longest stints on television in Australia, co-hosting alongside Spencer, Lorraine Bayly, Benita Collings, John Hamblin, Noni Hazlehurst, John Waters, Philip Quast and Anne Haddy. In addition to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Rainbow
Lynn Carol Rainbow-Reid (born 19 September 1942) credited also as Lynne Rainbow, is an actress of stage, film, television and radio, dancer and voice artist. Early life Rainbow was born to Judge Alfred Rainbow and his wife. A fourth generation performer, her great grandfather John Fuller emigrated to New Zealand from the UK and was known as the ‘Silver throated tenor of New Zealand'. Her grandfather was theatre entrepreneur Sir Benjamin Fuller, who opened Fuller's Theatres across Australasia, together with brother Johnny. Rainbow's mother was also a dancer, whose partner was actor Ron Shand. Rainbow was educated in Australia at the Ascham School, then studied acting under Dame Doris Fitton at the Independent Theatre school in Sydney. She subsequently attended The Sorbonne in Paris and the Dante Alighieri in Italy. Entertainment career Rainbow has worked in the entertainment industry throughout England, the US and her native Australia. Serving as a judge by day, and da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |