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Good Morning Mr Doubleday
''Good Morning Mr Doubleday'' is a black and white 1969 Australian TV series which ran for 26 episodes. It is a sitcom set in a high school. Ron McLean, who wrote several scripts, called it "appalling." Cast Main * Gerry Gallagher * Katie Wilde * Kay Eklund * Moira Carleto Guests * Dennis Miller as Ex-boyfriend * Diana McLean as Debbie (1 episode) * James Smillie (1 episode) * Marion Edward (1 episode) * Patsy King as Bridget O'Connor (1 episode) * Tom Oliver (1 episode) References {{reflist External links''Good Morning Mr Doubleday''at AustLit''Good Morning Mr Doubleday''at Classic Australian TV''Good Morning Mr Doubleday''at IMDb''Good Morning Mr Doubleday''at National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national co ... 1960s Australian television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Oliver
Tom Oliver (born 12 June 1938) is a British-born Australian retired actor who started his career in theatre in his native country, before emigrating to Australia. Oliver, a staple of the small screen since the early 1960s, is best known for his TV soap opera roles, most especially ''Neighbours'' as Lou Carpenter, a role he played for 25 years. The character was known for his constant sparring with Harold Bishop, and his trademark dirty laugh, which he previously utilised in an earlier role on ''Number 96''. Oliver has stated that it was inspired by the comic actor Sid James. He appeared in the early Crawford Productions police procedurals, before having the soap opera roles in '' Bellbird'', as Tom Grey and in ''Number 96'' as Jack Sellers. Short term soap roles included ''Prisoner'', '' Sons and Daughters'' and '' A Country Practice''. Biography Early life Oliver was born in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, England and started appearing in amateur theatricals as an adolescent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Miller (Australian Actor)
Dennis Michael Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor, and comedian. He was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1991, and he subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC, and also in syndication. From 2007 to 2015, Miller hosted a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One. On March 9, 2020, ''Dennis Miller + One'' show, launched on RT America. It ran twice-weekly and featured celebrity interviews. Miller is listed as 21st on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and was ranked as the best host of ''SNL''s ''Weekend Update'' by Vulture.com. Early life Miller was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon. He is of Scottish descent. Miller's parents separated and he was raised by his mother, Norma who was a dietitian at a Baptist nursing home. Miller is reluctant to speak about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana McLean
Diana McLean is an Australian stage and television actress and voice over artist., best known for her roles as Sister Vivienne Jeffreys in TV soap opera ''The Young Doctors'' in 549 episodes from 1978 and 1981. Acting career In 1969, McLean appeared in an episode of the comedy series '' Good Morning Mr Doubleday''. In the early 1970s, she appeared in an episode of the classic Australian police series ''Division 4'', and an episode of '' Boney''. She also appeared as "Dorothy Dunlop" in the Australian series Number 96. In the mid 1970s, she appeared as "Helen McGuire" in nine episodes of the series '' Ben Hall'', and then as "Sister Vivienne Jeffries" from 1978 until 1982 in the series ''The Young Doctors''. In 1999 she played the part of " Bess O'Brien" in Neighbours. In 1982, she appeared in the film, '' Early Frost''. Her work in the theatre has included ''The Cold Child'' in 2006 and ''Love & Money'' in 2007. In 2014, she reprised her role of "Vera" '' 4000 Miles'', for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Smillie
James Smillie, (born 28 November 1944), also credited variously as James Smillie; Jim Smillie and Jim Smilie, is a Scottish-born Australian actor. He has worked in both Britain and Australia in film, extensively on stage, on television, with voice-over and animation work. Smillie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and emigrated to Australia before returning to the United Kingdom to appear in stage roles in London's West End. On television, he's best remembered for the roles of Steve Wilson in ''Prisoner Cell Block H'' and Doctor Dan Marshall in the 1980s Australian mini-series and one full series of ''Return to Eden''. Career Television and film Smillie has appeared in films and television shows as featured actor and host, and as leading man on stage in the UK and Australia. His television credits include ''Return to Eden'', '' Prisoner: Cell Block H'', '' Adventure Island'', '' Space: 1999'' the episode ''End of Eternity'', '' Thriller'', ''The Gentle Touch'', '' Skin Deep'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Edward
Marion Edward is an Australian actress. She has appeared on stage in '' The Ballad of Angel's Alley'', on TV in '' Snake Gully with Dad and Dave'' and on film. She was nominated for the 1981 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the film ''Roadgames ''Roadgames'' (stylized as ''Road Games'') is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, along with the help of a ...''. Filmography Film Television Theatre References External links * cuttings on Marion Edward. actress, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journalsat the National Library of Australia. Australian television actresses Australian film actresses {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy King
Patsy King (born 16 September 1930) is an Australian retired actress known for work in both theatre and television. She has been a children's television presenter, theatre director, playwright and worked in commercials, and in radio and voice over work, particularly in her early career in the United Kingdom. King started her career exclusively as a radio and classical stage actress, with roles in everything from Shakespeare to Peter Pan starting from 1951 until 1990. with a brief return to the stage post-retirement in 2009. Her career in television and children's entertainment started in the early 1960s and extended until 1984.Bryant, Margot "The illustrated Encyclopedia of Australian Showbiz" She is known for her roles in TV series including ''Bellbird (TV series), Bellbird'' as Kate Andrews ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'' Internationally she is best known as an original cast member of ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'', internationally known as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'', as th ... [...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] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film And Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
