Robert Bundy McDarra (1931– 23 December 1975) variously credited as Robert McDara and Bob McDara was an Australian stage, television and film actor. He won the 1973
AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
The AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achieve ...
for his work on the film ''
27A''. With
Edward Hepple, Terry McDermott, Walter Sullivan and
Ben Gabriel, he was a founding member of the original
Q Theatre
The Q Theatre was a British theatre located near Kew Bridge in Brentford, west London, which operated between 1924 and 1958. It was built on the site of the former Kew Bridge Studios.
The theatre, seating 490 in 25 rows with a central aisle, wa ...
project in 1963, which, before expanding and moving to
Penrith, was a venue offering short plays to office workers at the AMP Theatrette at
Circular Quay
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over lunch times.
McDarra died on 23 December 1975 after a long battle with an unspecified illness.
Filmography
Film
Television
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1931 births
1975 deaths
20th-century Australian male actors
Australian male film actors
Australian male stage actors
Australian male television actors
Best Actor AACTA Award winners
Male actors from Sydney