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TV Follies
''TV Follies'' is an Australian television series that aired on ABC in 1979. It was a series of four separate musicals. The musicals were set in a speakeasy in Chicago, a troop ship, a film set in Hollywood, and in New Orleans. It debuted on Saturday 2nd June and finished on 23 June. The ''Hollywood'' episode won a Sammy Award for best variety program. Episodes *Chicago *SS Kalgoorlie *Hollywood *New Orleans Cast * Gus Mercurio as Maxy Missouri * Max Cullen as Cheesy Parmesi and Cyrus P Sanders * Noni Hazlehurst as Silver Le Bow * David Atkins as Bernie Goldman * Robyn Moase as Slats Molloy * Normie Rowe as Bruce Baxter * Debbie Byrne as Laura * Ian Turpie * Jane Harders Jane Harders is an Australian actor. She has appeared in films, on television and in plays and musicals. She played Janet in the original Australian production of ''The Rocky Horror Show ''The Rocky Horror Show'' is a Musical theatre, musical ... as Linda Zimmerman * Freddie Paris as Ace Dupree Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Mercurio
Augustino Eugenio “Gus” Mercurio (10 August 19287 December 2010) was an American-Australian chiropractor, actor, boxing referee, boxing judge, and sports commentator. He was equally prominent as a character actor on film and television, and as a personality in the sports world. He was a long-time commentator on the Seven Network's ''World of Sport'' from 1976 to 1987. The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' described him as “one of the most recognised and loved faces in Australian television,” while boxing writer Paul Upham called him "one of the great characters of Australian boxing." Early life Of Sicilian descent, Mercurio was born in West Bend, Wisconsin near Milwaukee, in 1928. He was the eldest child of Vincent A. Mercurio and Cecilia W. "Mickey" Miller. He had two sisters, Gerie and Connie, and a brother, Tony. The elder Mercurio was a member of the Milwaukee mob, and according to his son, was verbally and emotionally abusive. His parents were divorced when he was seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Cullen
Maxwell Phillip Cullen (born 29 April 1940) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He has appeared in many Australian films and television series but is best known for his role in the film '' Spider and Rose'' and the television series '' The Flying Doctors'', '' Secret Valley'' and '' Love My Way''. Early life Cullen was born on 29 April 1940, in Wellington, New South Wales, to Alec Cullen, an electrical linesman and Lila Mary (nee Vale), when he was one year old his family moved to Lawson in the Blue Mountains. His older brother Fred Cullen was also an actor and screenwriter better known professionally as Cul Cullen (1934-1982) Career Cullen began his career as a painter and sculptor after training at Sydney's National Art School in 1956 and later studied at the Julian Ashton Art School with Brett Whiteley in 1959. His works have been exhibited regularly in solo and in group exhibitions and he has worked as an illustrator, cartoonist and layout artist on several magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noni Hazlehurst
Leonie Elva "Noni" Hazlehurst is an Australian actress, director, writer, presenter, and broadcaster who has appeared on television and radio, in dramas, mini-series, and made for television films, as well also on stage and in feature films since the early 1970s. Hazlehurst has been honoured with numerous awards, including Australian Film Institute Awards, ARIA Awards and Logies, including being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. Early life and education Leonie Elva Hazelhurst, known as "Noni", was born in Melbourne. After attending St Leonard's College in Brighton East, Victoria, Hazlehurst studied Drama at Flinders University in South Australia from 1971 to 1973, where she resided at Flinders University Hall and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. Both of her parents were English, and they migrated to Australia in 1951. Career Television Along with roles at the ABC, her first television work was in guest lead roles in television serials pro ... [...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] |