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Blue Heelers (season 6)
The sixth season of the Australian police-drama ''Blue Heelers'' premiered on the Seven Network on 10 February 1999 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded 24 November 1999. Casting Main cast for this season consisted of: * John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon * Julie Nihill as Chris Riley * Martin Sacks as Senior Detective P.J. Hasham * Lisa McCune as Acting Sergeant / Senior Constable Maggie Doyle * Tasma Walton as Constable Dash McKinley (episodes 1–23) * Paul Bishop as Senior Constable / Acting Sergeant Ben Stewart * Rupert Reid as Probationary Constable Jack Lawson * Jane Allsop as Probationary Constable Jo Parrish (episodes 28–42) Guest actors this season included Kate Hood, Jason Clarke, Terence Donovan, Lisa Crittenden, Grant Piro, Norman Yemm, Robert Grubb, Margot Knight, Arianthe Galani, Jeremy Angerson, Louise Siversen, Lois Ramsay, Mary Ward and Roger Oakley Roger Oakley (born 21 August 1943) is a New Zealand act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Allsop
Jane Claire Allsop is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Jo Parrish on ''Blue Heelers''. Personal life Allsop was born in the United Kingdom, and only a few months after her birth moved to the United States with her father, John Allsop and mother, Helen Allsop. When Allsop was two-and-a-half years old, her family settled in Mont Albert in Melbourne, Australia. She attended Strathcona Primary School and Melbourne Girls Grammar. Jane Allsop is married to actor David Serafin, whom she met in acting class at age 13 but did not start dating until years later. Serafin had guest roles on ''Blue Heelers'' during Jane's time on the show in 2001 and 2003. In May 2006, Allsop had their first son, Indiana Zac Serafin, and in May 2008 had their second, Jagger Zed Serafin. They had twin girls in December 2016. The couple were married in July 2014. Career She began drama classes at age nine in Box Hill, and at thirteen she starred in the Wedgewood Pie commercial, where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ward (actress)
Mary Lorraine WardThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Australian Showbiz (6 March 1915 – 19 July 2021), also known as Mary Ward Breheny, was an Australian actress of stage, television, and film, and a radio announcer and performer and commercial spokeswoman and media personality. Her career spanned seven decades. Ward trained in England and Australia, and worked in both countries. Ward during the outbreak of World War II, was in high demand as a stage actress in England, before returning to Australia where she worked in local theatre, and became one of the first female radio announcers at the ABC in Australia, billed as the ''Forces Sweetheart'' on Radio Australia. At ABC Television, she appeared in a number of filmed stage plays, as well as featuring in Australian films, both made-for-television and theatrical, including the film '' Amy''. She is perhaps best known—both locally and internationally—as an actress portraying elderly characters in television soap opera role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Ramsay
Lois June Ramsey (; 18 June 1922 – 22 January 2016) also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series '' The Box'' and ''Prisoner'' as two different characters. As a character actress of both drama and comic roles in numerous serials, she often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas. Career The Box and Prisoner She was a major cast member of the 1970s soap opera ''The Box'' as tea lady Mrs. Hopkins, appearing for the entire run of the serial. She also had 2 prominent stints in ''Prisoner''—firstly as dotty social worker Agnes Forster in 1980 in 1985 as an elderly inmate Ettie Parslow, who thought that the Second World War was still going on. Television and film roles She had numerous roles in TV soap opera/serials including ''Crawford Productions'' serials ''Homicide'' , ''The Sullivans'', ''Cop Shop'', as well as ''A Country Practice'', '' E Street'', ''Home and Away'', and ''Blue Heelers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Siversen
Louise Siversen is an Australian actress. She is known for her television roles, including Lou Kelly in ''Prisoner'' (1984–1986), Debbie in ''The Flying Doctors'' (1986–1990), and 2012-2017 Heather Looby in '' House Husbands''. She has also appeared on stage and in film. Training Born in Melbourne, Siversen began acting as a child after her parents sent her to dance and drama classes to help her overcome her shyness. Siversen began to enjoy acting and went on to perform with St Martins Youth Theatre, appearing in many productions. Siversen was to study law, but decided to stick with acting after attending a Career Day at university. Siversen has also trained in jazz dance and ballet. Career Television Siversen is best known for her portrayal of nasty Louise "Lou" Kelly in the Network Ten series ''Prisoner''. Siversen had done several bit-parts in the series and at the time the character of Lou was devised and had been a regular extra for several months, playing one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianthe Galani
Arianthe Galani (born 9 April 1940), is an Australian character actress born in New Zealand of Greek descent. She is known for her roles in TV soap operas and serials, TV commercials, as well as films. Galani is primarily known for guest roles and cameos. Career Galani worked in opera and sang professionally before she became known as an actor. She worked as a singer in England for four years in the 1960s then joined the Australian Opera for five years between 1967 and 1972.Richard Coleman 'From sausage rolls to queenly role' ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 19 June 1980 p. 8 Galani played a regular role in soap opera, ''Number 96'' as Maria Panucci, the aunt of Harry Michaels' character Giovanni from late 1976 until the end of the series in August 1977, and then took a regular role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation situation comedy series ''Home Sweet Home'' (1980). Both roles were as fiery Italians. Between these roles she made appearances in the first season of cult TV se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Knight
Margot Knight is an Australian actress of television and stage, voice artist and a screenwriter. She had numerous guest roles in TV series and telemovies, but is best known for her stints playing two roles in the highly popular cult series ''Prisoner'' (known internationally as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H''); she played inmate Sharon Gilmour in 1980 and junior prison officer Terri Malone in 1985. TV roles: ''Neighbours'' and ''Prisoner'' Knight appeared in '' Neighbours'', playing two different roles Jean Richards in 1986 and Tracey Cox in 1997. Her ''Prisoner'' appearances are notable because in addition to being one of the few cast members to play both a prisoner and a prison warder in the series, both of her roles were as the lesbian love interest to the show's main lesbian character at the time. Sharon Gilmour was the scheming drug pushing girlfriend of long-term inmate Judy Bryant (Betty Bobbitt) (Judy's long stay in prison actually began because she deliberately had hers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grubb
Robert Grubb (born 31 January 1950) is an Australian actor. He studied acting at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he graduated in 1978. There he was a fellow student of actor Mel Gibson. Grubb played the role of Dr. Geoffrey Standish in the popular series ''The Flying Doctors''. He won Australia's Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his stage portrayal of ''Pop'' in the Australian production of the Queen musical, ''We Will Rock You''. In 1998, he played The Wolf/ Cinderella’s Prince in Sondheim’s ''Into the Woods'' He also narrated "Rainforest Beneath the Canopy" in 2004. Grubb was reprising his previous role of Detective Bill Graves on ''Neighbours''. Grubb features as Senior Sgt Bill Kirby in ''Savage River'' (TV series), on ABC TV (and iview), premiering September 2022 and set in country Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Yemm
Norman Yemm (23 March 1933 – 3 February 2015) was an Australian actor, opera singer and sportsman. Screen career (Film and TV) Yemm's film roles include ''Night of Fear'' and ''The Fourth Wish'' On the small screen he may be best remembered for his long-running role in the television drama ''The Sullivans'' as Norm Baker. He had previously played regular roles in ''Homicide'' as Detective Jim Patterson and ''Number 96'' as Harry Collins. Further TV credits include ''Prisoner'' as police officer Eddie Stevens, ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'', ''Riptide'', ''Tandarra'', ''A Country Practice'', ''Possession'', ''Neighbours'', ''The Henderson Kids'', ''Blue Heelers'' and ''Something in the Air''. . Theatre Yemm appeared in such roles as ''Don Pasquale]'', he was a frequent performer in musical theatre including roles in ''Oklahoma'' and ''The Pirates of Penzance'', '' South Pacific and ''The Sound of Music'' As a vocalist he had spent years as chief baritone with Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Piro
Grant Piro is an Australian actor. He is best known as the host of the children's television show ''Couch Potato'' on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He also appeared as Captain Schnepel in Escape From Pretoria. Career He began his career in 1983 in the Australian television soap opera '' Sons and Daughters''. After completing George Miller's film ''Bushfire Moon'' (Miracle Down Under) in 1987, a chance meeting with British comedy legend Ray Cooney led to a three-year stint in the UK where he appeared in several of Ray's plays: '' It Runs In The Family'', '' Wife Begins At Forty'', the latter alongside the great Jimmy Edwards, as well as TV programs such as ''Casualty'' and '' Shelley''. He returned to Australia in 1990 to become the host of the ABC children's television program ''Couch Potato''. During the 1990s, Grant appeared in a large number of Australian television dramas that included ''Janus'', ''Correlli'', '' G.P.'', ''Halifax f.p.'', ''Blue Heelers'', ''SeaCh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Crittenden
Lisa Crittenden (born 1962) is an Australian actress, noted for her roles in various television series, such as ''The Restless Years'' (as Briony Thompson, 1981), ''The Sullivans'' (as Sally Meredith), ''Prisoner'' (as Maxine Daniels 1982–83), '' Sons and Daughters'' (as Leigh Palmer 1985–86), ''Rafferty's Rules'' (1988) and the New Zealand produced ''Shortland Street'' (as Carrie Burton 1992–93). She had 3 roles in drama Blue Heelers and also played a lead role in mini-series ''Whose Baby?'' and made a guest appearance as Gabrielle's mother Hecuba in '' Xena: Warrior Princess''. Personal life Crittenden has been married to Gary Moore, a freelance director of photography, since 1986. She currently resides in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ..., A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Donovan (actor)
Terence Donovan (born 28 October 1942), also billed as Terence J. Donovan and Terry Donovan, is an English-Australian actor of stage and television, and the father of fellow actor and singer Jason Donovan (from his marriage to actress and journalist Sue McIntosh). Donovan is best known to audiences for his roles in soap opera including ''Neighbours'' as patriarch Doug Willis and in ''Home and Away'' as List of Home and Away characters (1988)#Al Simpson, Al Simpson''. ''He has appeared in Australian TV drama series since the 1960s, including police drama series Division 4, ''Division 4'' and Cop Shop, ''Cop Shop'', as well as minor parts in numerous serials including The Prisoner, ''The Prisoner'', ''Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series), Sons and Daughters'', A Country Practice, ''A Country Practice'' and ''E Street (television show), E Street.'' Career Donovan, who was born in Staines-upon-Thames, Staines, England, United Kingdom, has been a staple of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
