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Smugglers Beware
''Smugglers Beware'' is a 1950 Australian stage play by Eleanor Witcombe. It was widely performed and was published in book form. Witcome later adapted it into a 1963 Australian television series. The play debuted in Sydney in 1950. Like Witcombe's earlier '' Pirates at the Barn'' and ''The Bushranger'' it proved hugely popular. The play was presented in London in 1954. Premise William gets involved with a group of smugglers. 1963 television series The book was adapted for Australian television in 1963. It played over four episodes at thirty minutes each starting 11 January 1963. Cast *Paddy Conroy *Jack Allen as Croaker *Brendon Lunney *Ruth Cracknell *Noel Brophy as Huggie *Nigel Lovell * Marcia Hathaway *Anne Beecher *Toby Conroy *John Stocker External linksSmugglers Bewareat 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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Witcombe
Eleanor Katrine Witcombe (20 September 1923 – 21 October 2018) was an Australian screenwriter and playwright who worked extensively in radio, film and television. Early life and education Witcombe was born in Yorketown, South Australia to Bertha Eriksen, who was of Danish and Prussian descent, and Noel Whitcombe. Her father ran a farm there, and later a grocery store. In 1939, the family drove to Queensland, intending to move to Cooktown, but ending up in Brisbane where Eleanor and her sister Aileen attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School. In 1941, Witcombe left school due to chronic asthma, and the family relocated to Sydney, where she attended the National Art School. She worked as a governess at a New South Wales property during World War II, but was unhappy in the role and dreamt of becoming a writer. Writing career In 1947, Witcombe was awarded a scholarship at the Mercury Theatre founded by Peter Finch. The following year, the Mosman Theatre Club commissioned her to writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Daily Telegraph'', also nicknamed ''The Tele'', is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited (NWN), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that the ''Telegraph'' was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper. Amongst those ranked by Nielsen, the ''Telegraph'' website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers. History ''The Daily Telegraph'' was founded in 1879, by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on the ''Melbourne Daily Telegraph''. Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirates At The Barn
''Pirates at the Barn'' is a 1948 Australian stage play for children. It made its debut in 1948 and was very popular, being performed at the Minerva Theatre in 1949. The cast for that production included Grant Taylor and John Meillion. The play was revived a number of times including ones in 1966. A 1979 production on Clark Island in Sydney Harbour was directed by Neil Armfield. The play was also performed in England. Witcome wrote other plays for children including ''The Bushrangers'' and ''Smugglers Beware ''Smugglers Beware'' is a 1950 Australian stage play by Eleanor Witcombe. It was widely performed and was published in book form. Witcome later adapted it into a 1963 Australian television series. The play debuted in Sydney in 1950. Like Witcomb ...''. Leslie Rees later wrote Witcombe "won unusually widespread popularity with" these plays adding, "Using a simple stage, she has a gift for making a story move, and keep moving, in the most droll or sharply accented way. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herald (Melbourne)
''The Herald'' was a morning – and later – evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990. It later merged with its sister morning newspaper '' The Sun News-Pictorial'' to form the ''Herald-Sun''. Founding The ''Port Phillip Herald'' was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne. The paper took its name from the region it served. Until its establishment as a separate colony in 1851, the area now known as Victoria was a part of New South Wales and it was generally referred to as the Port Phillip district. Preceding it was the short-lived '' Melbourne Advertiser'' which John Pascoe Fawkner first produced on 1 January 1838 as hand-written editions for 10 weeks and then printed for a further 17 weekly issues, the '' Port Phillip Gazette'' and ''The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. But within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunday Herald (Sydney)
''The Sun-Herald'' is an Australian newspaper published in tabloid or compact format on Sundays in Sydney by Nine Entertainment. It is the Sunday counterpart of the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. In the six months to September 2005, ''The Sun-Herald'' had a circulation of 515,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, its circulation had dropped to 443,257 Fairfax Ad Centre: The Sun-Herald and to 313,477 , from which its management inferred a readership of 868,000. Readership continued to tumble to 264,434 by the end of 2013, and has half the circulation of rival ''''. Its predecessor the |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being '' The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendon Lunney
Brendon Lunney is an Australian actor and producer. Lunney's featured screen roles include Michael in '' No Roses for Michael'' in 1970, Commissioner Edmund Fitzalan in '' Rush'' in 1974, Joey Emmett in ''Dead Men Running'' in 1971, Harry Byrne in '' Lucky Colour Blue'' in 1975. Ross in '' Do I Have to Kill My Child?'' in 1976 and Mark Adams in ''Carrots'' in 1979 Lunney was a regular presenter on ''Target Target may refer to: Warfare and shooting * Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports ** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports ** Aiming point, in field artille ...'' and '' Switched On Set''. Lunney was a member of the Old Tote Theatre Company, appearing for them in ''As You Like It'' (1971), ''The Man of Mode''(1971) and ''A Month in the Country'' (Parade Theatre, 1971). References External links * Biographical cuttings on Brendon Lunney, actor and farmer, containing one or mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Cracknell
Ruth Winifred Cracknell AM (6 July 1925 – 13 May 2002) was an Australian character and comic actress, comedian and author. Her career encompassed all genres, including radio, theatre, television, and film. She appeared in many dramatic as well as comedy roles throughout a career spanning some 56 years. In theatre she was well known for her Shakespearean roles. Early life and education Ruth Winifred Cracknell was born on 6 July 1925 in Maitland, New South Wales to Charles and Winifred Goddard (nee Watts). When she was four years old, the family moved to Sydney. She was educated at North Sydney Girls High School and, after graduating, worked at the Ku-ring-gai Council as a stenographer. In 1943 she joined the Modern Theatre Players drama school, run by Edna Spilsbury. She resigned from the council in 1945 to become a professional actress. Career Radio and theatre Cracknell's first acting jobs were in radio, starting at AWA recording studios in 1945. By 1946, she was perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Lovell
Nigel Tasman Lovell (27 January 1916 – 13 December 2001) was an Australian stage, radio, film and television actor, and producer of opera and both stage and radio drama. History Lovell was born in Sydney, the son of Tasman Lovell, Professor of Psychology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sydney University, living at Honda Road, Neutral Bay. He was educated at "Shore" (Sydney Church of England Grammar School) and studied law at Sydney University, graduating BA in 1938, and was an active member of the Sydney University Dramatic Society under director May Hollinworth. While with SUDS he was spotted by the director of drama for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Frank Clewlow, who gave him small roles in several radio plays. Handsome, well-connected and gregarious, his name frequently cropped up in Sydney's social pages. In 1950 he joined the Metropolitan Theatre, again under Hollinworth, and when she fell ill he took over production. In 1951 he won a Commonwealth Jubile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Hathaway
Marcia Nellie Hathaway (1930 - 28 January 1963) was an Australian actress. Hathaway worked extensively in theatre and on Sydney radio, and appeared in the 1960 film Shadow of the Boomerang She died after being attacked by a Bull shark in shallow water at Sugarloaf Bay, Middle Harbour, Sydney, on 28 January, 1963. Select credits *''Shadow of the Boomerang'' (1960) *''Harlequinade'' (1961) * Smugglers Beware (TV series) - 1963 References External linksMarcia Hathawayat AusstageMarcia Hathawayat 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 ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Hathaway, Marcia 1930 births 1963 deaths 20th-century Australian actresses Deaths due to animal attacks in Australia Deaths due to shark attacks Shark attacks in Australia ... [...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] |
