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Shark Bay (TV Series)
''Shark Bay'' is an Australian comedy-drama series or satirical soap opera. The 26 episode series screened on Foxtel in 1996. Cast * Rowena Wallace as Clarissa * Zoe Bertram as Kylie Delaney * Dieter Brummer as Brad Delaney * Raelee Hill as Heather * Tina Thomsen as Debbie * Lisa Baumwol as Daphne/Delilah * Tiriel Mora as Justin Farraday * Will Gluth as Peter Delaney * Joel Williams as Steve * Kate Gorman as Miranda Delaney * Francis O'Connor as Dr. Jane * Doug Penty as Rupert/Osbert * Adrian Lee * Scott Michaelson * Tottie Goldsmith * Peter O'Brien * Roger Oakley Roger Oakley (born 21 August 1943) is a New Zealand actor and theatre director noted for his performances in television serials, mini-series, feature and television films. He is also active as a theatre performer, director and voice-over. Oakle ... External links * Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming Australian comedy television series Australian drama televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxtel
Foxtel is an Australian pay television company—operating in cable television, direct-broadcast satellite, direct broadcast satellite television, and IPTV streaming services. It was formed in April 2018, superseding an earlier company from 1995. The service was established as a 50/50 joint venture between News Corporation (now News Corp, the present day News Corp; through News Corp Australia, News Limited, now News Corp Australia) and Telstra, with News Corp and Telstra holding 65% and 35% ownership shares respectively. It shares many features with the Sky UK, Sky service in the UK and Ireland — including the iQ box, the electronic program guide, electronic programme guide, a similar remote control, and Red Button Active. History In 1995, a venture between News Corporation (in particular 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Media) and Telstra took place whereby Telstra would transmit a TV signal through its coaxial network and News Corporation would be the basis for offering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter O'Brien (actor)
Peter O'Brien is an Australian actor, best known for his role as an original cast member in 1985 of Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'' as Shane Ramsay. Career O'Brien played a regular role in short-lived soap opera '' Starting Out ''(1983), in then had guest roles in '' Carson's Law'' in 1983 and ''Prisoner'' in 1984 and appeared in '' The Henderson Kids''. He was then cast as Shane Ramsey, a regular original character in soap opera ''Neighbours'' on the Seven Network in 1985. He became one of the serial's most popular cast members, continuing in the series until 1987. He then played a leading regular role in drama series '' The Flying Doctors'' from 1988 until 1991. In 1994, O'Brien sent up his soap opera star past by taking a regular role in Psycho Ward 10, a soap opera parody in '' The All New Alexei Sayle Show''. O'Brien took on the role of surgical registrar Mr. Cyril "Scissors" Smedley in the popular BBC series ''Cardiac Arrest'' through the second and third series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Australian Television Series Debuts
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Television Soap Operas
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Oakley
Roger Oakley (born 21 August 1943) is a New Zealand actor and theatre director noted for his performances in television serials, mini-series, feature and television films. He is also active as a theatre performer, director and voice-over. Oakley has been a professional working actor for over 55 years. He is perhaps best known for his role as the original character of foster father Tom Fletcher between 1988 and 1990, with a brief guest role in 2008 on the Seven Network's soap opera '' Home and Away''. His other notable roles include '' The Sullivans'' television series and film version as Major. Barrington and '' Something in the Air'', as controversial politician Doug Rutherford. Oakley appeared in feature film roles including in 1977 in his native New Zealand in the movie '' Sleeping Dogs'' starring Sam Neill, and in Australia in ''Sara Dane'', '' Women of the Sun'', '' Travelling North'' and '' My Year Without Sex'' but has also appeared in numerous telemovies and mini-serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottie Goldsmith
Caroline "Tottie" Goldsmith (born 27 August 1962) is an Australian actress and singer. Career Television In the early 1980s, Goldsmith acted in the Australian television series ''The Young Doctors'', ''Starting Out'', ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'', ''Saturdee'', and ''The Henderson Kids ''. She made a guest appearance on an 1989 episode of ''Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series), Mission: Impossible'', which was filmed in Australia. In the 1990s Goldsmith hosted ''Sex/Life'', a Network Ten program about sexual health, and starred in the drama series ''Fire (TV series), Fire''. She was also a panellist on such programs as ''Beauty and the Beast (talk show), Beauty and the Beast'' and ''All-Star Squares''. Goldsmith made various guest appearances on Australian TV shows in the 2000s, including ''The Secret Life of Us'', ''Bert's Family Feud'', ''Big Questions'', ''Surprise Surprise Gotcha'', ''Pizza (TV series), Pizza'' and ''The Singing Bee (Australian game show), Celebrity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowena Wallace
Rowena Wallace (born 23 August 1947) is an English-born Australian stage and screen actress, most especially in the genre of television soap opera. She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/Morrell/Palmer in '' Sons and Daughters'', being the first soap star to win the Gold Logie. After leaving the series and being replaced in the role by Belinda Giblin, Wallace returned in the final season as Patricia's sister Pamela Hudson. She started her career on the small screen in the late 60's in serial '' You Can't See 'Round Corners'' as well as appearing in that serial's film version and then had regular roles in TV series including Crawford Productions ''Division 4'', ''Number 96'' and '' Cop Shop'' and in 1980-1981 became well known for her stint as Anne Griffin in cult series '' Prisoner.'' After ''Sons and Daughters'', she subsequently appeared primarily in guest roles and cameos in numerous TV serials, before again returni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Michaelson
Scott Michaelson is an Australian retired actor and talent manager who is most famous for playing Brad Willis in '' Neighbours''. He took over the role from Benjamin Grant Mitchell, who had been a guest character and later played Brad's cousin Cameron Hudson for over a year. Roles After appearing in ''Neighbours'' from 1991 to 1993, Michaelson also appeared on the New Zealand television series ''Shortland Street'', also ''Paradise Beach'', '' The New Adventures of Flipper'' and '' Sabrina Down Under''. He guest starred in '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and '' Young Hercules'' as Apollo. After leaving acting Scott Michaelson became a talent manager and his most notable client was Holly Valance Holly Rachel Candy (; born 11 May 1983), known professionally as Holly Valance, is an Australian actress and singer. Valance began her acting career on the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'', as Felicity Scully (1999–2002, 2005, 2022). .... References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiriel Mora
Tiriel Mora (born 19 October 1958) is an Australian television and film actor. Early life He is a son of the late Melbourne artist Mirka Mora and Georges Mora, German-born Australian entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur and restaurateur. Georges came from a Jewish family of Polish descent. His mother Mirka (née Zelik) was of Romanian and Lithuanian Jewish descent. Tiriel's older brothers are film director Philippe Mora and art dealer William Mora. Career Mora is best known for his role as the hard-nosed journalist Martin Di Stasio, in the TV series '' Frontline'', and the bumbling local solicitor Dennis Denuto, in the movie '' The Castle''. Mora also appeared in Qantas advertisements in the 2000s, as a Nebari called Silas in ''Farscape'' (1999-2003), as Judge Renmark in ABC-TV's legal drama '' Janet King'' (2014), and in the feature film '' Dinosaur Island'' (2014). He recently featured in Matt Drummond's family film, ''My Pet Dinosaur'' (2017). In 2018 he star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
