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Hector's Bunyip
''Hector's Bunyip'', is a 1986 Australian TV movie about a young boy who is abducted by a bunyip.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 79 Synopsis Six year old Hector in the youngest of three children in a poor foster family. His best friend is an imaginary creature he calls 'Bunyip'. One day a child welfare officer mistakenly deems the family home unsuitable for Hector, and makes arrangements for him to be placed in the care of an orphanage, but before the agency can follow through, Hector mysteriously 'disappears'. In reality, the family has hidden Hector, claiming he was taken by the 'Bunyip' - with the hope that in the meantime the counselor will change her mind. Cast * Robert Coleby as George Bailey * Barbara Stephens as Irene Bailey * Gordon Piper as Jack Benson * Tushka Bergen as Pandora Bailey * Denise Roberts as Gladys Glum * Joan Sydney as Maude Trembalt * Joyce Jacobs as Ivy Clements * Todd Boyce as Constable Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coleby
Robert Coleby (born 1947) is a British actor who has spent most of his career in Australia. Active since the 1970s, he has over 70 film and television credits to his name. Coleby has acted on stage in numerous productions for the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. Early life In his late teens, Robert lived in Edington, Somerset, Edington, Somerset and went to Dr Morgan's School in Bridgwater. At that time he was influenced by the beat generation, novelist Jack Kerouac and singer/songwriter Bob Dylan and performed with acoustic guitar at folk music clubs in Bridgwater and Taunton. He enjoyed hitch-hiking in Europe during the school holidays, and worked in the peat fields near Shapwick, Somerset, Shapwick to fund his travels. Early career Coleby's real name is Robert Taylor. Since there was already a famous actor of that name, Equity (trade union), Equity rules required that he choose another. Coleby's earliest screen role was in 1970, playing the role of Fortinbras in a TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Moll
Brian Percy Moll (19 May 1925 – 9 August 2013) was a British-born Australian comedian character actor of stage, television and film and director and producer who emigrated to Australia from his native England in 1950. Quitting his job as a publicity officer, he became a professional actor in 1953. He was best known for his soap opera television roles, but also appeared in film and numerous theatre productions. Early life He was born in Chaucer Road, Wanstead, North East London on 19 May 1925 to Hedges Percy Moll and Dorethy Dot Alice Sarah (née Mitchell)?? Brother Peter James Moll During World War II, he was conscripted to the Royal Navy in 1943 at the age of eighteen and spent the later years of World War II serving on a minesweeper. His ship was involved in the D-Day operation and he watched the action from just off the Arromanches beach. In October 1950, he immigrated from England and arrived in Melbourne, Australia under the £10 assisted passage emigration scheme. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Television Films
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 co ... [...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] |
WonderWorks
''WonderWorks'' is an anthology series which ran from 1984 to 1992. Produced by the Public Broadcasting Service, the Walt Disney Company purchased the home video rights to the series in 1987 and was responsible for making the series available to the public on VHS and later DVD in addition to airing some of the programs on the Disney Channel. The series consisted of short, made-for-television films out of acclaimed children's books. They included adaptations of ''Anne of Green Gables'', '' Bridge to Terabithia'', ''All Summer in a Day'', ''Jacob Have I Loved'', ''The Box of Delights'', ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' series, ''Miracle at Moreaux'', ''The Hoboken Chicken Emergency'' (starring Peter Billingsley), ''Odile & Yvette at the Edge of the World'' (scored by Blake Leyh), '' How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!'' (by Stephen Manes), ''Gryphon'' (produced by Manuel Arce and Carl Haber, starring Amanda Plummer), ''A Little Princess'', ''A Girl of the Limberlost'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of New South Wales , established_title2 = Establishment , established_date2 = 26 January 1788 , established_title3 = Responsible government , established_date3 = 6 June 1856 , established_title4 = Federation , established_date4 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Wales , demonym = , capital = Sydney , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 128 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Margaret Beazley , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Dominic Perrottet (Liberal) , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type1 = Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunter Valley
The Hunter Region, also commonly known as the Hunter Valley, is a region of New South Wales, Australia, extending from approximately to north of Sydney. It contains the Hunter River and its tributaries with highland areas to the north and south. Situated at the northern end of the Sydney Basin bioregion, the Hunter Valley is one of the largest river valleys on the NSW coast, and is most commonly known for its wineries and coal industry. Most of the population of the Hunter Region lives within of the coast, with 55% of the entire population living in the cities of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. There are numerous other towns and villages scattered across the region in the eleven local government areas (LGAs) that make up the region. At the the combined population of the region was 682,465, and is expected to reach over 1,000,000 people by 2031. Under Australia's wine appellation system, the Hunter Valley wine zone Australian Geographical Indication (GI) covers the entire catc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Heylen
Harold Charles Sydney Heylen (25 May 1922 – 4 December 1996), credited variously as Syd Heylen, Sid Heylen and Sydney Heylen, was an Australian character actor of radio, stage, television and film, comedian, and variety performer and soldier, he often performed in a traditional vaudeville style in the vein of Roy Rene. He was best known for his role in ''A Country Practice'', as the RSL club manager, barman and chef Vernon "Cookie" Locke, alongside Gordon Piper as his mate Bob Hatfield. Cookie and Bob were styled as a version of The Odd Couple, with Cookie as the slob and Bob as the neat one. In the series he was briefly engaged to town gossip Esme Watson (Joyce Jacobs) He went into vaudeville after World War II and in 1956 starred in the variety show "The Show of Stars" with straight man Hal Lashwood and John Ewart. Heylen became popular during the 1960s on television as a regular performer on the HSV-7 variety show ''Sunnyside Up'' for 10 years, appearing as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Piper
Gordon Stephen Piper (3 June 1932 – 18 September 2004) was an Australian actor, theatre director and scriptwriter and comedian active in all facets of the industry including radio, stage, television (including soap opera and TV movies) and film. He remains best known as plumber Bob Hatfield in ''A Country Practice''. Early life Piper was born on 3 June 1932 to parents Clive Reginald Piper and Mildred Nelly Piper (née Johnson) on their dairy farm in the Sydney suburb of Cheltenham. He began performing as a child, singing soprano for the Sydney Boys' Choir and making his radio debut with a choir o2FC Acting career Piper began his professional career acting in radio plays, and later branched out to touring variety acts which toured local pubs and clubs. He worked as a television extra for several years, before taking to the stage for a theatre career. Notable roles in the 1970s included a long-running stint in the play ''Dimboola'', and a role as a bartender in the film ''My Bril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Boyce
Todd Boyce (born July 1, 1961) is an American film, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Stephen Reid in the successful soap opera ''Coronation Street'' from 1996 to 1997, 2007 and again from 2022. Early life Todd was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of a business manager. Raised in New York, Germany, Chicago and Brazil, at age 16 he moved with his family to Australia. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia) in 1983. Career Todd Boyce graduated from Sydney Church of England Grammar School (S.C.E.G.S.) in December 1979 and joined the Australian soap opera ''The Restless Years'' in January 1980. He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (N.I.D.A.) the following year. After graduating from NIDA he went on to star in the mini-series '' Fields of Fire''. Boyce debuted in ''Coronation Street'' as Audrey Roberts' illegitimate son Stephen Reid in 1996. He has appeared in 47 episodes of the series ranging betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Jacobs
Joyce may refer to: People * Joyce (name), list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Joyce, (born 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter * James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish modernist writer Places * Joyce, Washington, an unincorporated community in the United States * Mount Joyce, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Joyce Peak, Ross Island, off the coast of Victoria Land * Joyce Glacier, Victoria Land * Lake Joyce, Victoria Land * Joyce Country, a region in counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland * 5418 Joyce, a main-belt asteroid Business * Joyce, house brand of Hong Kong company Joyce Boutique * JB Joyce & Co, an English clockmaker * Joyces 365, a supermarket chain based in Galway, Ireland * Amstrad PCW personal computer, sold under license in Europe as the "Joyce" Other uses * Hurricane Joyce (other), multiple storms * USS ''Joyce'' (DE-317), a destroyer escort that served in World War II * Joyce (programming language) * Joyce Theater, in the Manhatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
