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All The Green Year
''All the Green Year'' is a 1980 Australian television series based on a novel about three boys growing up near Melbourne on the eve of the Great Depression.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 52 It is based on the book of the same name by Don Charlwood, first published in 1965. The book sold over 100,000 copies and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic. Cast *Greg Stroud as Johnno *Darius Perkins as Charlie Reeves *Jamie Adamson *Sally Cooper *Carl Hansen *Monica Maughan as Mrs Reeves *Alan Hopgood as Mr Reeves *Alwyn Kurts as Older Charlie Reeves *Larry Held *Tracey Kelly as Eileen *Pepe Trevor as Kitty Production The novel was published in 1965 and was acclaimed. It was set as a text for high school students studying English Literature in the 1960s. In 1977 it was announced the ABC would make a TV series based on the book. Filming did not take place until mid 1980. Although most of the series was set in Frankston, it was shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Charlwood
Donald Ernest Cameron Charlwood AM (6 September 1915 – 18 June 2012) was an Australian author. He also worked as a farm hand, an air traffic controller and, most notably, as an RAAF navigator in Bomber Command during the Second World War. While best known for ''No Moon Tonight'', his fictionalised memoir of life as a crew member in RAF Bomber Command (the fiction is revealed by comparing his straight autobiographical account of those experiences, '' Journeys into Night''), Charlwood wrote a number of other biographical, fiction and non-fiction works. Early life Born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1915, Charlwood's family moved to Frankston when he was eight. Charlwood left Frankston High School in his Leaving Certificate year, to take a job with a local estate agency and produce market. When approaching 18 years of age he was required to train his replacement, and found himself unemployed in 1933. He took a holiday at a relative's farm, ''Burnside'', near Nareen, in south-west Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Maughan
Monica Cresswell Maughan (née Wood, 15 September 1933 – 8 January 2010) was an Australian actor with roles in theatre, radio, television, film and ballet over a career spanning 52 years. Early life and education She was born Monica Cresswell Wood in Tonga to Australian missionaries Rev. Dr A. Harold Wood and medical doctor Olive Wood (née O'Reilly). She had 5 brothers and sisters, including Dr Elizabeth Wood-Ellem and Rev. Dr H. D'Arcy Wood. The family moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1937 – Monica was three-and-a-half and spoke no English – and shortly afterwards to Melbourne, where her father became principal of Methodist Ladies' College (MLC) and her mother his unofficial deputy. Monica attended MLC, where she received her only formal drama training with speech teacher Dorothy Dwyer, and went on to study French at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1959 with a BA. Monica was a member of the Melbourne University Dramatic Club, where she adopted the stage na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Television Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Television Films
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) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian Women's Weekly
''The Australian Women's Weekly'', sometimes known as simply ''The Weekly'', is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Mercury Capital in Sydney. For many years it was the number one magazine in Australia before being outsold by the Australian edition of '' Better Homes and Gardens'' in 2014. , ''The Weekly'' has overtaken '' Better Homes and Gardens'' again, coming out on top as Australia's most read magazine. The magazine invested in the 2020 film '' I Am Woman'' about Helen Reddy, singer, feminist icon and activist. Editor-in-chief Nicole Byers told Film Ink "Helen’s story of adversity and triumph is nothing short of inspirational. ''The Weekly'' has been telling stories of iconic Australian women for more than 80 years and we're delighted to be supporting the film production". History and profile The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer and Ted Theodore as a weekly publication. The first editor was George Warnecke and the initial dummy was laid out b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Lt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepe Trevor
Penelope Trevor (born 1960) professionally known as Pepe Trevor, is an Australian actress, screenwriter, journalist and author and visual artist, who is perhaps best known for her role as young card sharp and trouble-maker, Lexie Patterson in ''Prisoner'' (1985–86).'Prison Break', TV Week, 1 June 1985 Biography Trevor was born in Sydney, and moved to Melbourne at the age of six. She made a name as an actress in various Australian television series during the 1980s. Later in life, Trevor began writing, and won the Dobbie Award in the 1997 Nita Kibble Literary Awards for her first novel, ''Listening for Small Sounds''. Her second novel, ''Another Man's Office'', came out in 2000. As a journalist, Trevor has contributed articles for '' The Melbourne Weekly Magazine''. Trevor was married to violinist and music teacher, Matthew Arnold, and has two sons, Jaspar and Tashi. She is the daughter of TV producer Marie Trevor (born Brisbane, Queensland 1922 - 7 June 2000, Australia), who als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Cooper (actress)
Sally Cooper is an Australian actress. For her performance in ''Simone de Beauvoir's Babies'' she was nominated for the 1997 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama. Cooper's career began with the lead role in ''Gail'' on ABC TV followed by ''All the Green Year'', Network Ten's ''Prisoner'' and an eight-week run on Ten's ''The Restless Years''. Other roles include '' Moving Out'' and ''Simone de Beauvoir's Babies'' in 1997. She played Maggie Hancock on ''Neighbours''. Cooper has appeared on stage in plays such as ''After Dinner'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company and ''Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)'' for State Theatre Company of South Australia. Filmography Screen * ''Gail'' as Lead role * ''All the Green Year'' (TV series) (1980) * ''Prisoner'' (TV series) * ''The Restless Years'' (TV series) * '' Moving Out'' (Film) (1983) * ''Simone de Beauvoir's Babies'' (TV miniseries) (1997) * ''Neighbours'' (TV series) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Green
Clifford Green OAM (6 December 1934 – 4 December 2020), born in Melbourne, Australia, was an Australian screen writer, whose best-known work is the script for the film '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975). Career Green spent his early working life as a country school teacher, which was reflected in his script for the 1974 ABC TV series, ''Marion''. He was able to write in a wide variety of genres, and his screenplay for Peter Weir’s ''Picnic At Hanging Rock'' was a landmark in the renaissance of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. In 1981, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced ''I Can Jump Puddles'', a mini-series written by Green, based on Alan Marshall's autobiographical stories. His screenplay for the 1990 TV movie, ''Boy Soldiers'', was the first Australian drama to receive an Emmy nomination. In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to the Australian film and television industry as a scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Perkins
Darius Anton Perkins (28 October 1964 – 2 January 2019) was an Australian actor. He was the original actor in the role of teenager Scott Robinson in the soap opera '' Neighbours'' in 1985 before the role was taken over by Jason Donovan the following year. Perkins also played Charlie in ''All the Green Year'', Gary Samuels in '' Home and Away'', and Ben in ''All the Rivers Run'' for which he won a Logie Award. After a lengthy time away from the screen, in 2013 Perkins returned to ''Neighbours'' in his first role in more than 19 years as guest character Marty Kranic. Perkins also appeared in two Bollywood films made in Australia. Career He started acting during primary school, where Val Lehman was his drama teacher. His first television role was in ''The Sullivans'' in 1976. He played Charlie in ''All the Green Year'' and played guest roles in ''Cop Shop'', ''Prisoner'', '' A Country Practice'', ''Carson's Law'' and ''The Flying Doctors''. He also played Ben in the HBO miniseri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Stroud
Greg is a masculine given name, and often a shortened form of the given name Gregory. Greg (more commonly spelled " Gregg") is also a surname. People with the name *Greg Abbott (other), multiple people *Greg Abel (born 1961/1962), Canadian businessman *Greg Adams (other), multiple people *Greg Allen (other), multiple people *Greg Anderson (other), multiple people *Greg Austin (other), multiple people *Greg Ball (other), multiple people *Greg Bell (other), multiple people *Greg Bennett (other), multiple people *Greg Berlanti (born 1972), American writer and producer *Greg Biffle (born 1969), American NASCAR driver *Greg Blankenship (born 1954), American football player *Greg Boyd (other), multiple people *Greg Boyer (other), multiple people *Greg Brady (broadcaster) (born 1971), Canadian sports radio host *Greg Brock (baseball) (born 1957), American baseball player *Greg Brooker (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
