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Vic Gordon
Vic Gordon (4 March 1911 – 2 December 2003) was a British Australian character actor of vaudeville, television and film, best known for his achievements in the fields of drama, light entertainment, music and comedy. Biography Vic Gordon was born in March 1911 in London, England. He moved to Australia in 1959 where his early performances were in comedy and vaudeville alongside celebrities such as Maurie Fields, Val Jellay and Peter Colville. He was known as Vic "Funnyface" Gordon on the HSV-7 Melbourne and ATN-7 Sydney television afternoon children's programme: ''The Happy Show'' (1960–1965), with Harry "Happy" Hammond. Gordon, like many early Australian TV actors, was a staple of Crawford Productions. He appeared in 16 different roles in ''Homicide'' and 9 roles in ''Division 4'', before becoming a regular as the no-nonsense desk Sergeant Bert Kennedy, in the production ''Matlock Police'', and as (Jack Lambert) on ''Young Ramsay''. Later roles included ''The Flying Doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbo (film)
''Garbo'' is a 1992 Australian comedy film directed by Ron Cobb. It was written by the Australian comedians Neill Gladwin and Steve Kearney with Patrick Cook from a story by Hugh Rule. Max Cullen, Moya O'Sullivan and Imogen Annesley also star. Filmed in Melbourne, the story focuses on two Australian garbagemen (''garbos'' in Australian slang) who have to compete with a new corporate outfit which also has ambitions to redevelop parts of the suburb in which they work. The film's engagement with the simpler pleasures of community life reflects the work of Jacques Tati, who both Gladwin and Kearney admired. Cast * Steve Kearney as Steve * Neill Gladwyn as Neill *Max Cullen as Wal *Moya O'Sullivan as Freda * Imogen Annesley as Jane *Gerard Kennedy as Trevor *Tommy Dysart as Bagpipes *Max Fairchild as Big Feral *Roderick Williams as Pope *David Glazebrook as Fragile *Earl Francis as Control Tower Garbo *Ray Chubb as Garbo Foreman *Simon Chilvers as Detective * Harold Baigent as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Vibrations (miniseries)
''Good Vibrations'' is a 1992 Australian mini series about a family who discover their house is a portal to the afterlife. It was shot from 1 July to 2 August 1991.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p200 Cast * Stephen Whittaker as Raf * Geneviève Picot as Kate Reiner * Felicity Soper as Sky * Alan Hopgood as Cec * Sasha Close as Lily * William McInnes as David Chester * David Hoflin as Donovan * Jeffrey Walker as David * Grant Dodwell as Leo Reiner * Mandy Salomon as Judy Bruin * Richard Norton as Sonny * Melissa Jaffer as Annie * Neil Melville as Jim * Terry Gill as Fred * Vic Gordon as Old Joe * Mark Mitchell as W. C. Fields References External links''Good Vibrations''at 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pugwall
''Pugwall'' is an Australian children's television series which first screened on the Nine Network in 1989. Based on Margaret Clark's young adult fiction novels of the same name, it revolves around the title character Peter Unwin George Wall, ''"PUGWALL"'', and his friends as they form a band. Season 2 was titled ''Pugwall's Summer''. Premise After receiving an electric guitar on his 13th birthday, Pugwall and his friends, Bazza, Orfo, and Stringbean form a band, but they need a lead singer. Whilst in hospital after a bicycle accident, Pugwall meets a girl called Jenny, they become friends and he asks her if she can sing. She tells him she can and he asks her to join the band; she agrees and the Orange Organics is formed. Each episode follows Pugwall's trials and tribulations as he goes about his family life, and follows the band as they attempt to secure a recording contract with a record company. The Orange Organics *Peter Unwin George Wall (''Pugwall'') – guitar and vocals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round The Twist
''Round the Twist'' is an Australian children's comedy drama television series which follows the supernatural adventures of the Twist family, who leave their conventional residence to live in a lighthouse, in the fictional coastal town of Port Niranda. The series was created and produced by Patricia Edgar, and developed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) as a show that both children and parents could watch. Early episodes were based on stories by author Paul Jennings (Australian author), Paul Jennings. History Patricia Edgar agreed to have Jennings write the series on the condition he would be mentored by and collaborate with the director, actor, and writer Esben Storm. Edgar previously worked with Storm on the children's show ''Winners (Australian TV series), Winners'' and the TV film series ''Touch the Sun (Australian TV series), Touch the Sun''. The partnership between Edgar, Storm and Jennings was an efficient team for the development of the first se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (formerly the 0-10 Network) from February 27 (Melbourne) and February 26 (Sydney) 1979 to December 1986 (Melbourne), running eight series and 692 episodes. ''Prisoner'' was the first Australian series to feature a primarily female-dominated cast and carried the slogan "If you think prison is hell for a man, imagine what it would be like for a woman!" The series, produced by the Grundy Organisation, was conceived by Reg Watson and filmed at the then-Network Ten Melbourne Studios at Nunawading and on location. The series garnered an international cult following, and it was one of Australia's most successful media exports, exported to 80 countries, performing particularly well in the United States and Canada (billed as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'' and ''Caged Women'', respectively). It also built a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Squad (Australian TV Series)
''Special Squad'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten in 1984. Overview The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too sensitive or specialist for regular squads. The Special Squad was headed by Det. Insp. Don Anderson ( Alan Cassell), with his main operatives being Det. Snr. Sgt. Greg Smith ( Anthony Hawkins), and Det. Sgt. Joel Davis ( John Diedrich). ''Special Squad'' was seen by some as an Australian answer to the British series '' The Professionals'' both for its focus on action and violence, and the fact that both programs were produced by Raymond Menmuir; story consultant Gerry O'Hara also worked on both shows. It was suggested in the press that the show was the most expensive yet made for Australian television; John Diedrich told writer/actor Barry Dickins that the show cost A$5 million. The first series was sold to Paramount Pictures for international distribution.Tim Cribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Rivers Run
''All the Rivers Run'' is an Australian historical novel by Nancy Cato, first published in 1958. It was inspired by the life of Pearl Wallace, Australia's first river boat Skipper. It was adapted as a 1983 Australian television miniseries starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters. The miniseries is marketed with the tagline ''A sweeping saga of one woman's struggle for survival''. A sequel, ''All the Rivers Run II'', was produced in 1989. Story ''All the Rivers Run'' follows the life of English girl, Philadelphia Gordon, from the time when she is shipwrecked and orphaned off the coast of Victoria in 1890. She spends most of her life around Echuca, on the Murray River, and invests some of her inheritance in the paddle steamer called PS ''Philadelphia''. Her life is changed forever when she meets paddle steamer captain Brenton Edwards. She is torn between the harsh beauty of life on the river with its adventures, and the society life in Melbourne with her blossoming career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Island
''Holiday Island'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten. The show aired twice weekly for a single season from 1981 to 1982, the show was unsuccessful and axed within two months of broadcast. Series synopsis Like preceding Crawford's series, the aborted ''Hotel Story'', ''Holiday Island'' was a '' Love Boat''-style drama series set in a luxury hotel. This time the location was a tropical resort island in Queensland. In each episode the regular characters - the various islanders and hotel workers - hosted a new batch of guest star hotel guests. Various plots and situations on the show included a fierce cyclone hitting the island, children being kidnapped, a siege where the hotel workers were held hostage by less than pleasant guests, drug trafficking, the resort being terrorised by a biker gang and a politician dying of a heart attack while staying at the island's resort. The series became notorious amongst critics for its allegedly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can Jump Puddles
''I Can Jump Puddles'' is a 1981 Australian television mini-series based on the 1955 autobiography of the same name by author Alan Marshall. Adapted for television by screenwriters Cliff Green and Roger Simpson, the series starred Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Adam Garnett, Tony Barry, Julie Hamilton, Ann Henderson, Lesley Baker, Olivia Brown, Debra Lawrance and Darren MacDonald.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p205 Several prominent television actors also had supporting roles including Lisa Aldenhoven, Kaarin Fairfax, Maurie Fields, Terry Gill, Reg Gorman, Matthew King, Julie Nihill, Maureen Edwards and Dennis Miller and Jason Donovan and Cliff Ellen. Plot Based on Alan Marshall's three-part autobiography ''I Can Jump Puddles'' (1955), ''This is the Grass'' (1962) and ''In Mine Own Heart'' (1963), the film tells of Marshall's childhood growing up in rural Victoria around the turn of the century. Contracting polio soon after atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cop Shop
''Cop Shop'' is a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes. Synopsis The show revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plainclothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station. It also took a significant interest in the private lives of the characters. While many Crawford Productions police dramas combined videotaped interiors with location footage shot on 16mm film, ''Cop Shop'' was shot entirely on video, including external scenes. Two one-hour episodes were broadcast each week and featured a specific police investigation and a guest cast whose stories formed a self-contained narrative block. Alongside this the ongoing narratives of the regular characters continued in longer, more open-ended soap opera-style story threads. This same soap opera-drama series hybrid format wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey (1976 TV Series)
''Bluey'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network in 1976. The series was a police drama from Crawford Productions, but was different from many of their previous series—''Homicide'', ''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''—in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the characters were not stock standard archetypes usually seen in police dramas. Stand-up comedian Lucky Grills was cast as the titular Detective Sergeant 'Bluey' Hills who, in contrast to the relatively straight detectives seen in Crawford's previous shows, was obese, drank heavily (even on duty), smoked heavily, visited local prostitutes, and would often enact physical violence on criminals. It premiered on Wednesday 21 July 1976 on ATN-7 in Sydney, as a 90-minute pilot episode, with the first 60-minute episode premiering on the following day, Thursday 22 July 1976. Bluey was later an essential Thursday viewing. Cast Main * Lucky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
