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Peta Toppano
Peita Margaret Toppano (born 1951)GRO Birth Index EnglandLawson, Valerie. , ''Sydney Morning Herald'' (13 December 2003): "They fell in love and married in 1950 in a church at Golders Green, London. Their daughter, Peta, was born a year later." stage name Peta Toppano is an English-born Australian of stage and screen actress, singer and dancer, who is known for her series roles in ''The Young Doctors'', ''Prisoner,'' as Karen Travers, ''Home and Away'' as Helen Poulos, ''Heartbreak High'' and ''Return to Eden'' as Jilly Stewart. Toppano was married to her ''Prisoner'' co-star Barry Quin and subsequently to TV executive and business mogul Kerry Stokes. Early life Toppano was born in Finsbury Park, London, England and grew up in Cammeray, New South Wales. The daughter of musicians Enzo Toppano and Peggy Mortimer, she has two younger brothers: Lorenzo and Dean and is of Italian descent. At 16 she won a ballet scholarship to study in Cannes, Southern France. She returned to Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Quin
Barry Quin (born 1949) credited also as Barry Quinn, is a British-Australian actor and briefly producer who has appeared on stage and television and film, on the small screen he has featured in numerous TV series and mini-series, but he is best known for his role as an original cast member of TV series ''Prisoner'' playing Dr. Greg Miller. He was married to his ''Prisoner'' co-star Peta Toppano during the early 1980s, but they divorced after ten years; he has since remarried. Biography A graduate of the Central Drama School in London, Quin was primarily a stage actor in his early career. After a small role in the British television series ''Just William'' in 1977, he had bit parts on UK sitcom '' Two's Company'' and US drama series ''Charlie's Angels''. He was touring Australia as part of a stage production of ''Othello'' when he met his future wife Peta Toppano. While auditioning for ''Prisoner'', Toppano suggested Quin for the role of Greg Miller when she learned the produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Watson
Reginald James Watson (27 August 1926 – 8 October 2019) was an Australian television producer and screenwriter. He was executive producer on ''Crossroads (British TV series), Crossroads'' and created Australian media exports serials such as ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'', ''Neighbours'', ''The Young Doctors'' and ''Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series), Sons and Daughters''. Career Watson was born on 27 August 1926, and grew up on a sugar farm in Queensland. He began his career as an actor at the age of sixteen on Australian radio firstly as an actor and then as an announcer, before moving to the UK in 1955. He was soon hired by Associated TeleVision, ATV and in 1956, joined Ned Sherrin and Noele Gordon in Birmingham to establish the base of ATV Midlands where his job was as Head Of Light Entertainment. In this role, he created many programmes for the station with his first big hit being the live daily chat show, ''Lunchbox''. It ran from 1956 to 1964 to over 3,000 ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Hero
''Street Hero'' is a 1984 Australian film directed by Michael Pattinson and starring Vince Colosimo, Sigrid Thornton, Sandy Gore, Bill Hunter and Ray Marshall. The film won an AFI award. Plot Vinnie is a teenage boy who is an outcast at school, alienating teachers and students alike. He is a local courier for the local Mafia boss. He lives in welfare housing with his mother (Peta Toppano), a young brother and sister, and his Mum's lover who he can't stand. Vinnie takes out his aggression with the world practicing boxing at the local gym. He is haunted by images of his father (when just a boy he witnessed his father's murder) and his father's boxing career. His music teacher (Sandy Gore) encourages him to get involved as a drummer with the school band, and his girlfriend Gloria (Sigrid Thornton) and others influence him to stay away from the Mafia. Cast * Vince Colosimo as Vinnie * Sigrid Thornton as Gloria * Sandy Gore as Bonnie Rogers * Bill Hunter as Detective Fitzpatrick * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Film Institute Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the film and television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the U.S. and the BAFTA Awards for the U.K. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA International Awards, inaugurated on 27 January 2012, are presented every January in Los Angeles. History 1958–2010: AFI Awards The awards were presented ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian filmmaker. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama (''Newsfront'', ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'', ''The Quiet American''); thrillers (''Dead Calm'', '' Sliver'', '' The Bone Collector''); and action films (''Blind Fury'', '' The Saint'', ''Salt''). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations ''Patriot Games'' (1992) and ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1994) and the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's ''The Giver''. He has worked with such actors as Val Kilmer, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Rutger Hauer. He has also directed, written, and executive-produced television programmes in both Australia and North America, including '' The Cowra Breakout'', ''Vietnam'', '' Revenge'', ''Roots'', and most-recently Netflix's '' What/If.'' Noyce's work has won him several accolades, including AACTA Awards for Best Film, Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Which Way Home (miniseries)
''Which Way Home'' is a 1991 mini series about a nurse who flees Cambodia.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p. 249 References External links * 1990s Australian television miniseries 1991 Australian television series debuts 1991 Australian television series endings {{Australia-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971) alongside Jeff Bridges. She also had roles as Kelly in Elaine May's '' The Heartbreak Kid'' (1972), Betsy in Martin Scorsese's ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), and Nancy in Woody Allen's '' Alice'' (1990). On television, her first major role was as Colleen Champion in the one season of the night-time drama ''The Yellow Rose'' (1983). Shepherd played Madeline Hayes on the detective comedy-drama ''Moonlighting'' (1985–1989) opposite Bruce Willis, for which she won two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical TV Series out of three such nominations. She later starred as Cybill Sheridan on ''Cybill'' (1995–1998), for which she won her third Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical TV series. Her later television roles included Phyllis Kroll on '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (actor)
John Russell Waters (born 8 December 1948) is an Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician best known in Australia, where he moved to in 1968. He is the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters.Waters enjoying his "Peter Pan existence". ''The Age'', 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2013] John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series '' Play School (Australian TV series), Play School'' for 18 years. Career [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Gilling
Rebecca Gilling (born 3 November 1953 in Castlecrag, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian former model and actress, now environmentalist. Gilling is the daughter of World War II Navy personnel Douglas Gilling and prominent feminist campaigner Bridget Gilling. Career Her first acting role was in film ''Stone'' (1974) but she came to prominence in the ''Number 96'' feature film version in 1974, as the "bad girl" flight attendant Diana Moore even though she was not a member of the regular TV series cast. Her next acting role was in the action film ''The Man from Hong Kong'' (1975). Gilling went on to act in several television series. She was a regular support character in ''Glenview High'' (1977)http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/GlenviewHigh/12.jpg and then appeared in ''The Young Doctors'' as Liz Kennedy. Gilling later achieved international recognition in both the mini-series (1983) and subsequent series (1986) of ''Return to Eden'' as Stephanie Harper. She also appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bach
John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a British-born New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades. Though born in the United Kingdom, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand. International audiences are most likely to have seen Bach as the Gondorian Ranger Madril in the second and third movies of ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2001–2003). His leading roles in New Zealand television include playing the titular Detective Inspector John Duggan in the '' Duggan'' telemovies and television series, one of the truckdriving brothers in series'' Roche'', and time on long-running soap opera '' Close to Home''. In 1992 he starred as Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell in the telemovie The Sound and the Silence. In 1999 he played the Earl of Sackville in an episode of the TV miniseries '' A Twist in the Tale''. Bach's Australian work includes science fiction series ''Farscape,'' playing Mike Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Tobias
Oliver Tobias Freitag (born 6 August 1947), known professionally as Oliver Tobias, is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director. Biography Born in Zürich, Switzerland, he is the son of the Austrian-Swiss actor Robert Freitag and the German actress Maria Becker. He came to the United Kingdom at the age of eight and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. In 1968, he appeared in the original London production of ''Hair (musical), Hair'', playing the prime rebel role of Berger. The following year, he starred in, directed, and choreographed the rock opera in Amsterdam and, in 1970, directed a production in Tel Aviv. Film career Tobias's first role was in the feature film ''Romance of a Horsethief'', co-starring with Yul Brynner, Serge Gainsbourg and Eli Wallach. He then co-starred with Charlotte Rampling in the Jacobean tragedy '''Tis Pity She's a Whore (film), 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'', a film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. He became popular as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Paper Man (miniseries)
''The Paper Man'' is a 1990 Australian mini series about a fictitious media mogul A media proprietor, media mogul or media tycoon refers to a entrepreneur who controls, through personal ownership or via a dominant position in any media-related company or enterprise, media consumed by many individuals. Those with significant co ....Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p221 References External links * 1990 television films 1990 films 1990s Australian television miniseries 1990 Australian television series debuts 1990 Australian television series endings Films directed by Peter Fisk Films scored by Chris Neal (songwriter) {{Australia-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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