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Love And War (1967 Film)
''Love and War'' is a 1967 Australian TV series. It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers. '' Man of Destiny'' by George Bernard Shaw Date: 6 September 1967Producer: Patrick BartonIt aired in Sydney as part of ''Wednesday Theatre'' and ran for 60 minutes. The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963. Cast *Brian Hannan - Napoleon Bonaparte *Anne Charleston - The Lady *Dennis Miller - The Lieutenant *Stanley Page - The Innkeeper ''Serjeant Musgrave's Dance'' by John Arden Date: 13 September 1967Director: John CroystonIt aired in Sydney as part of ''Wednesday Theatre'' and ran for 90 minutes. Plot An anti-war fanatic falls victim to anarchy of his own making. In England at the end of the 19th century a small group of soldiers, led by the ''hardest man in the line'', goes to a strike bound mining town in the north of England. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Barton
Patrick Barton is an Australian TV director best known for his productions in the 1960s. Select Credits *''You Can't Win 'Em All'' (1962) *''The Gioconda Smile'' (1963) *''Night Stop'' (1963) *''Double Yolk'' (1963) *''The Angry General'' (1964) *''The Sponge Room'' (1964) *''The Road'' (1964) *''Wind from the Icy Country'' (1964) *''A Provincial Lady'' (1964) *''Dangerous Corner'' (1965) *'' A Time to Speak'' (1965) *''Cross of Gold'' (1965) *'' Othello'' (1964) *''Daphne Laureola ''Daphne laureola'', commonly called spurge-laurel, is a shrub in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae. Despite the name, this woodland plant is neither a spurge nor a laurel. Its native range covers much of Europe and extends to Algeria, M ...'' (1965) *''Romanoff and Juliet'' (1965) *''Ashes to Ashes'' (1966) *''Waiting in the Wings'' (1965) *''Should the Woman Pay?'' (1966) *''Love and War'' (1967) *''Quality of Mercy'' (1975) *''Bellbird'' (TV series) References External links *Patrick Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hepple
Edward Hepple (4 June 1914 – 3 September 2005) billed variously as Eddie Hepple and Ted Hepple, was an Australian actor, voice artist, producer, director, playwright and television scriptwriter, known for his roles in theatre, television serials, soap operas and TV movies. His well-known roles were as Sid Humphrey in ''Prisoner'' and the voice of the prospector in the animated series '' The Silver Brumby''. Stage He was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play ''Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts'', presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on 2 February 1978. Television Perhaps best known for his television appearances, his credits include: * ''Barley Charlie'' (1964) * ''Contrabandits'' (1967) * ''Vega 4'' (1968) as Zodian * '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'' (1968–69) * '' The Rovers'' (1969–70) as Captain Sam McGill * '' Division 4'' (1970–71) * ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gregg (actor)
John Gregg (12 January 1939 – 29 May 2021) was an Australian actor. He played in among others: ''Grass Roots'', the '' Doctor Who'' tale ''The Ark in Space'', '' Special Branch'', ''Armchair Thriller'', ''Bodyline'', ''Heatwave'', '' Bootleg'', ''Captain James Cook'', ''Delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D ( NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also ...'', and '' Done Away with It''. Gregg died on 29 May 2021, aged 82. Filmography References External links * Sydney Swans Tribute 20th-century Australian male actors Australian actors 1939 births 2021 deaths People from Tasmania {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Morse
Helen Morse (born 24 January 1947) is an English-born Australian actress who has appeared in films, on television and on stage. She won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 1976 film '' Caddie'', and starred in the 1981 miniseries ''A Town Like Alice''. Her other film appearances include '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), '' Agatha'' (1979), ''Far East'' (1982) and '' The Eye of the Storm'' (2011). Early life and education Morse was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England, in 1947. She was the oldest of four children; her parents were a doctor and nurse. She moved to Australia in 1950 with her family. She attended school at Presbyterian Ladies' College in Burwood, Victoria, and graduated from at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1965, and trained with Brian Syron in Sydney. Career Morse won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 1976 film ''Caddie''. Her notable screen perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Albiston
Mark Albiston (born 19 March 1972) is a New Zealand film, television and advertising director. He graduated from University of Canterbury in Christchurch in 1992 with a degree in Fine Arts. Career In 2000, Albiston started the production company Sticky Pictures. The company produced award-winning content across a wide range of genres including documentary, short films, music videos, and commercials. These projects offered Albiston the opportunity to refine his directing talent from a variety of angles writing, editing and shooting on various projects. Albiston won a number of Documentary and factual TV awards including best arts documentary for ''The Magical World of Misery'' and best factual entertainment TV show for ''The Living Room''. In 2007, Albiston received recognition in the Short Film Section at the Cannes Film Festival for his short film ''Run''. Created in collaboration with writer/actor Louis Sutherland, the film won prizes at a number of other festivals. Albisto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rowley
Peter Rowley (sometimes credited as Harrison Rowley during his early career) (born April 29, 1952) is a New Zealand comic actor and writer. He is best known for his television roles, where he has played in numerous popular television series as comic foil and straight man to comedians such as Billy T. James, David McPhail and Jon Gadsby. Rowley started his comedy career in New Zealand. He made his New Zealand television debut as an actor and writer in the satirical sketch show ''A Week of It'', following which he continued to work with that show's stars David McPhail and Jon Gadsby in ''McPhail and Gadsby'' and '' Letter to Blanchy''. He also worked with Billy T. James in '' The Billy T James Show'', for which he also wrote material. He received title billing in the series '' Pete and Pio'' (1994) alongside fellow comedian Pio Terei. In 2010, Rowley wrote and presented a tribute to the late Billy T. James, entitled '' Billy T. and Me''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Graham (actor)
Ronald Graham (17 December 1926 – 2 April 2020) was a British-Australian character actor who appeared in many theatre and television roles from 1956 until retiring in 2003. He is best known for his roles in telemovies and guest roles in serials including those of ''Crawford Productions'' and roles in popular serials '' Certain Women'', ''A Country Practice'' and ''Home and Away''. He was a regular in the short lived police-oriented soap opera ''Waterloo Station'' (1983) and featured in the film ''Gallipoli''. Personal life Ron Graham was born Lionel Alfred Hosmer, the second son of 3 boys to William Alfred Hosmer 1896-1953 and Doris Agatha (nee Green) 1897-1978. In 1928, the family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lionel joined the British Army and in July 1948, his parents and two brothers emigrated to Australia from the United Kingdom. Lionel demobbed from the Army in 1949 and then migrated to Australia, settling in Perth. He changed his name by deed poll to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Collingwood
Peter Trevor Collingwood (6 May 1920 – 23 September 2016) was an English-born actor who appeared in theatre roles, films, miniseries and serials from 1938 to 2003 in his native England and Australia. Collingwood was known for his portrayal of judges, military men and upper-crust befuddled types. He was also a playwright. Biography Early life Collingwood was born in Kent(some sources give, Farnham, Surrey), England on 6 May 1920. He enrolled in the Embassy School of Acting at the Embassy Theatre, London, in 1937. His first professional acting job was in Wang Shifu's Chinese play '' The Western Chamber'' at London's Torch Theatre in 1938. Navy service During the Second World War, Collingwood served in the British Navy, including on the Greek submarine as liaison officer, but was discharged due to eye sight problems. Theatre and film roles After the war, Collingwood joined Amersham Repertory Theatre, followed by the Young Vic Company, and a number of other companies. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel ''Lord of the Flies'' (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for ''Rites of Passage (novel), Rites of Passage'', the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, ''To the Ends of the Earth''. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was Knight Bachelor, knighted in 1988. The house was known as ''Karenza'', the Cornish language, Cornish word for ''love'', and he spent many childhood holidays there. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father, Alec Golding, was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement), the school the young Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended. His mother, Mildred (Curnoe), kept house at 29, The Green, Marlborough, and was a campaigner for f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brass Butterfly
"Envoy Extraordinary" is a 1956 novella by British writer William Golding, first published by Eyre & Spottiswoode as one third of the collection '', Never'', alongside "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake. It was later published in 1971 as the second of three novellas in Golding's collection '' The Scorpion God''. The story concerns an inventor who anachronistically brings the steam engine to ancient Rome, along with three of the Four Great Inventions of China (gunpowder, the compass, and the printing press). Golding later adapted "Envoy Extraordinary" into a play called ''The Brass Butterfly'', first performed in Oxford in 1958 starring Alistair Sim and George Cole. Leighton Hodson compares it to "The Rewards of Industry" from Richard Garnett's 1888 collection '' The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales'', in which three Chinese brothers bring printing, gunpowder and chess to the West, but only chess is accepted. Plot A Greek libraria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Hodgeman
Edwin Hodgeman (born 26 June 1935) is an Australian actor. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He is known for playing Dr Dealgood in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in (1985). Selected filmography * ''The Fourth Wish'' (1976) .... Simms * ''Money Movers'' (1978) .... Nacker * '' The Survivor'' (1981) .... Bain * ''Eureka Stockade'' (1984, TV Mini-Series) .... Commissioner Rede * ''Robbery Under Arms'' (1985) .... Jack Benson * ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985) .... Dr. Dealgood * ''Playing Beatie Bow'' (1986) .... Sir * ''A Sting in the Tale'' (1989) .... Roger Monroe * ''Ebbtide'' (1994) .... Doctor * '' Shine'' (1996) .... Soviet Society Secretary * ''Sun on the Stubble'' (1996, TV Mini-Series) .... Mr. Taylor * ''Cut'' (2000) .... Mr. Drivett * ''Black and White'' (2002) .... Govt. Prosecutor * ''Human Touch'' (2004) .... Mr. Thompson * '' Look Both Ways'' (2005) .... Jim * '' Modern Love'' (2006) .... Old Man in motel * ''Lucky Miles'' (2007) .... Coote * '' Twin Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Fraser
Alice Fraser is an Australian comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor. Early life and education Fraser studied law at the University of Sydney before going on to earn a master's degree in English literature (Rhetoric) in Cambridge, England. Fraser returned to Australia and in 2013, she was nominated as best newcomer at the Sydney Comedy Festival. Career Fraser made her film debut in the movie ''Never Hesitate'' as Emily in 2014. Also in 2014, Fraser spoke at a TEDx event at Macquarie University. Trilogy In 2015 Fraser began touring ''Savage'', the first part of what she describes as an "unorthodox art-comedy/morality tale trilogy" which focuses on her upbringing and its impact on her life. The trilogy was completed by ''The Resistance'' in 2016 and ''Empire'' in 2017. Each installment of the trilogy was toured nationally and performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe. Reviewing ''Empire'', The ''Herald Sun'' called it a "beau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
