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Eggshells (TV Series)
''Eggshells'' is an Australian sitcom about a divorced man.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 157 It aired on ABC TV from 1991 to 1993 and ran for two seasons and 15 episodes. Its first season premiered on 11 February 1991, and it returned for a second season on 17 July 1993. Cast * Garry McDonald as Frank Rose * Judy Morris as Kathy * Susan Lyons as Jill * Christine Amor as Vanessa * Rebecca Smart * Ben Unwin as Andrew * Justin Rosniak Justin Rosniak (born 11 May 1977) is an Australian television and film actor, best known for his appearances in the television series ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''Police Rescue'', '' Squinters'' and ''Mr Inbetween''. Career Rosniak appeared ... References External links * {{IMDb title, 0101800 Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming 1991 Australian television series debuts 1993 Australian television series endings Australian television sitcoms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Atherden
Geoffrey John Atherden , credited also as Geoff Atherden, is an Australian television screenwriter and playwright, especially of comedy. He is best known for creating the sitcom ''Mother and Son''. Early life and education Atherden attended the University of Sydney in the 1960s. He trained as an architect. Architectural career Atherden practised as an architect until he was in his mid-thirties. He worked for the architectural firm of McConnel Smith & Johnson, and was responsible for designing the Law Courts building in Queen's Square, Sydney. Writing career In 1969, the founders of Producers Authors Composers and Talent (now PACT Centre for Emerging Artists) attended a Sydney University Architecture Revue, with sets by Atherden and Grahame Bond, and invited Bond, Atherden, Peter Weir and his friend, composer Peter Best, a chance to do a show at the National Art School's Cellblock Theatre. Sir Robert Helpmann saw the show and took it to the Adelaide Festival, and soon afterward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry McDonald
Garry George McDonald AO (born 30 October 1948) is an Australian actor, satirist and comedian. In a career spanning five decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is best known as the seemingly naive celebrity interviewer Norman Gunston, through whom he pioneered the "ambush interviewer" technique since followed by many others. He received a Gold Logie award for the television ''Norman Gunston Show'' in which he developed the character. He is also famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom ''Mother and Son''. Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2003 for service to the community in the mental health field and to the arts as an entertainer, he has also been a board member of the Australian mental health organisation Beyond Blue. Career McDonald was born in Bondi, a beachside suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Cranbrook School. During his time at Cranbrook, McD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Morris
Judith Ann Morris (born 17 February 1947) is an Australian character actress, as well as a film director and screenwriter, well known for the variety of roles she played in 58 different television shows and films, starting her career as a child actress and appearing on screen until 1999, since then she has worked on film writing and directing, most recently for co-writing and co-directing a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica which became ''Happy Feet'', Australia's largest animated film project to date. Early career Morris's first role came at the age of 10 when she was part of the cast of the television episode "Picture of the Magi" a ''Family Theater'' production which aired about 1957 on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States. She then performed in two other roles in the US, at the age of 10 on the '' Loretta Young Show'', and in 1960, at the age of 13, on ''The Chevy Mystery Show'' hosted on that occasion by Vincent Price. Career Returning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Scott (actor)
Phillip Scott (born 16 August 1952 in Sydney) is an Australian actor, singer, pianist, writer and comedian. Career He has appeared on film as well as in sketch comedy television programs. His television appearances include ''The Dingo Principle'' and ''Three Men and a Baby Grand'', satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe. He also appeared with Max Gillies in ''The Gillies Report'' and its sequels, ''The Gillies Republic'' and ''Gillies and Company'', and was a writer/performer on ABC TV's ''The Big Gig'' and a regular writer for ''Good News Week''. He (wrote the music for, played piano) and Max Gillies starred in "Night of National Reconciliation" during 1983 at Kinselas, Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, Sydney. From 2000 to 2017 he co-wrote, composed and performed as an actor/musician in the award-winning Wharf Revue series of political satirical revues for the Sydney Theatre Company, including ''Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC1
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 ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The network began operating on 5 November 1956 as the ABC National Television Service, starting in Sydney, followed by Melbourne, with other stations being established in state capitals and regional areas in the following years. In the 1960s and 1970s, the network was also referred to as ABC National Television, or ABC Television. Until the introduction of digital television in 2001, the network was the only domestic television service broadcast by the ABC. On 8 February 2008, the channel was renamed ABC1, before being rebranded as ABC TV on 20 July 2014. As of 2022, the ABC is the third-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network and Nine Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Lyons
Susan Lyons (born 1958, Sydney) is an Australian actress. Her television appearances include: ''A Country Practice'', ''Police Rescue'', ''Murder Call'', ''Farscape'', ''Something in the Air'' and '' All Saints''. Her film appearances include: ''The Good Wife'', ''No Worries'', ''In a Savage Land'', ''Black and White'', ''Corroboree'', '' Martin Four'' and ''Napoleon''. Lyons starred in the 1998 Australian Christmas film '' Crackers'', playing single mother Hilary who hates Christmas. Her most recent credit in theatre includes work as an associate director on the 2004 Broadway production of ''I Am My Own Wife'' directed by Moisés Kaufman. She has also narrated the audio book version of ''Incendiary,'' by Chris Cleave. She is married to Tony Award-winning theatre and film actor Jefferson Mays. Filmography FILM TELEVISION References External links * Susan Lyonsat the Internet Broadway Database The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Amor
Christine Debra Amor (born 1952) is an Australian actress of stage, television and film. Career Amor was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). She has acted extensively in television guest roles and in Australian film starting in 1973. Her film roles include ''Alvin Purple'' (1973), ''Petersen'' (1974), ''Snapshot'' (1979). Amor's early television roles include appearances in ''Matlock Police'', ''Division 4'', '' Certain Women'', '' Bellbird'', '' Chopper Squad'', ''Young Ramsay'', ''Glenview High''. She is possibly best known for her role as social worker Jean Vernon during the 1979 season of ''Prisoner''. Amor later took a regular role in the Australian version of sitcom ''Are You Being Served?''. She was the female junior in the program's second season in 1981. Amor was also a leading cast member of the drama series ''Carson's Law ''Carson's Law'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Smart
Rebecca Elizabeth Smart (born 30 January 1976) is an Australian actress, who began acting for television at the age of eight. Her first movie role was one year later in ''The Coca-Cola Kid''. She played the lead in the 1988 film '' Celia'' and went on to do many more supporting roles in movies and television shows, including miniseries and soap operas. Smart has worked with Australian directors of film, television and theatre. Companies include Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir St Theatre. Early life and education Smart was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, and was educated at St Catherine's School, Waverley, an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Awards and nominations Smart won the Most Popular Actress in a Miniseries/Telemovie Silver Logie at the Logie Awards for her performance in the 1987 Australian Miniseries '' The Shiralee''. She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Australian Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Unwin
Ben Denis Unwin (15 August 1977 – 14 August 2019) was an Australian actor and music video director, best known for portraying Jesse McGregor on the television soap opera ''Home and Away'' from 1996 until 2000, and again from 2002 to 2005. For his portrayal of Jesse, Unwin in 1997 was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent. and for a British National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer. Unwin, as a music video director, directed clips for Boy George and Culture Club. After Home and Away, Unwin completed a law degree and worked as a senior solicitor in Sydney and then in Newcastle. Unwin was found dead on 14 August 2019, one day shy of his 42nd birthday, at his home in Minyon Falls, west of Byron Bay, which according to Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Rosniak
Justin Rosniak (born 11 May 1977) is an Australian television and film actor, best known for his appearances in the television series ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''Police Rescue'', '' Squinters'' and ''Mr Inbetween''. Career Rosniak appeared as Tony in 1997's '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'', and in the same year voiced the title role in the animated television series ''The Adventures of Sam''. He has appeared in ''Home and Away'' three times, in 1988 as McPhee, the grandson of regular character's Neville and Floss McPhee, in 1995 as Joseph Lynch, and in 2018 as Ross Nixon. In 2010, Rosniak was cast in a supporting role in '' Animal Kingdom'' and in 2011 was in '' Underbelly: Razor'', playing the part of notorious Australian career criminal, Squizzy Taylor. In 2018, Rosniak was one of the regular cast members in the comedy series '' Squinters''. Rosniak appears in the 2019 Australian crime-thriller film ''Locusts Locusts (derived from the Vulgar Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |