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Tony Rickards
Tony Rickards is an Australian comedian and actor. Rickards played lead roles in ''The Great Gold Swindle'', ''Robbery'' and '' Mud, Bloody Mud'' and featured in '' Waterfront''. He played Con Marasco of radio's ''Punter to Punter ''Punter to Punter'' is a 1980s Australian radio show that ran on 3RRR for five years and then on 3XY for three and was reformed in 1990 on FOX-FM as ''The Punters''. The main cast was Mitchell Faircloth as Slim Whittle, John Rothfield as Dr. Tu ...'' for eight years. He appear in stage shows such as ''Tony Rickards takes a punt'' (1985, Last Laugh). References External links * Tony Rickardsat AusStage Australian stage actors Australian film actors Australian television actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gold Swindle
''The Great Gold Swindle'' is a 1984 Australian TV movie based on the Perth Mint Swindle. It was shot on location in Perth.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p71 Plot In 1982, the brothers Mickelberg are accused of robbing 49 gold bars from a mint in Perth, Western Australia. Cast * John Hargreaves as Ray Mickelberg *Tony Rickards as Peter Mickelberg * Robert Hughes as Brian Mickelberg * Steve Jodrell as Chris Hunt *Margaret Ford as Peggy Mickelberg *Will Day as Malcolm Mickelberg *Rosemary Harrison as Sheryl Mickelberg *Elaine Baillie as Faye Mickelberg See also *''The Great Mint Swindle ''The Great Mint Swindle'' is a 2012 Australian television film directed by Geoff Bennett and starring Grant Bowler, Todd Lasance and Josh Quong Tart. It is based on the Perth Mint Swindle which took place in the 1980s. Plot summary In the b ...'', a 2012 telemovie about the mint swindle References External links * Australian dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbery (1985 Film)
''Robbery'' is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Michael Thornhill inspired by the Great Bookie Robbery. Plot Major Bill Taylor (John Sheerin), leader of a fictitious Australian SAS-like regiment, is in charge of a hush-hush training exercise that goes wrong and is made to take leave (and the section disbanded) while the dust settles. He has a meeting at a gentlemen's club with retired Lt. Russ Stephenson (Tony Rickards) who tells him about regular meet-ups of bookmakers at the Club where they quietly settle accounts, totalling millions of dollars. Taylor recruits Shaw, Banks, Peters and Williams (Tim Hughes, Jonathan Sweet, Stan Kouros and Peter Fisher), all ex-commandos and missing the action; they train for the heist which has been planned by Taylor. Taylor and two others steal weapons from a gun shop while the others create diversions: blasting the door of an electricity substation and smashing jeweller's shop windows. They subsequently holdup a small city ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mud, Bloody Mud
''Mud, Bloody Mud'' is a 1985 Australian television film based on a popular comic strip, ''Bluey and Curley''. These comic book characters link documentary footage with puppets playing political figures.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p108 The show mixed together actors as soldiers with actors in oversized caricture heads playing the likes of Robert Menzies, John Curtin, General MacArthur and General Blamey. It aired on ABC in October 1986. The script was written by Cliff Green Clifford Green OAM (6 December 1934 – 4 December 2020), born in Melbourne, Australia, was an Australian screen writer, whose best-known work is the script for the film '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975). Career Green spent his early workin ... for the ABC. Green: We had a very tight budget, very few actors, and no outside filming - so the whole thing was shot in-studio. The only real people in it - there is a narrator who is an army Medical O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterfront (miniseries)
''Waterfront'' is a 1984 Australian miniseries about industrial disputes on the Australian waterfront during the Great Depression.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p248 References External links''Waterfront'' Episode 1at Australian Screen Online''Waterfront'' Episode 2at Australian Screen Online 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 c ... * 1980s Australian television miniseries 1984 Australian television series debuts 1984 Australian television series endings {{Australia-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punter To Punter
''Punter to Punter'' is a 1980s Australian radio show that ran on 3RRR for five years and then on 3XY for three and was reformed in 1990 on FOX-FM as ''The Punters''. The main cast was Mitchell Faircloth as Slim Whittle, John Rothfield as Dr. Turf and Tony Rickards as Con Marasco. The show grew out of a 1980 racing tips segment on a morning sports show that featured Simon Thorpe and Rickards as Vince and Con Marasco. Faircloth joined them and they got their own show which began in 1981 by Thorpe, Rickards and Faircloth, with Rothfield joining as a special guest and soon moving up to being a regular. Other cast members have included Jason van de Velde as Trevor Marmalade, Tracy Harvey Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia. Biography Harvey appeared in 'Movement' a web series, ''The Comedy Company'', ''The Gillies Report'', ''The Big Gig'', '' Hey Hey It's Saturday'' ''Smallest ... as Tammy Whittle, Graeme Sefton as Young Grae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Laugh (comedy Venue)
The Laugh Last Theatre Restaurant & Zoo, popularly known as The Last Laugh, was a comedy club in Melbourne, Australia. It was a major centre for the development of Australian alternative comedy. The 250-seat Last Laugh opened in 1976 at 64 Smith Street, Collingwood in the former Foresters Hall. A smaller upstairs venue, Le Joke, was added in 1981. Acts associated with The Last Laugh in the 1980s included Los Trios Ringbarkus, The Phones, Rod Quantock, Mary Keneally, Wendy Harmer, Jane Clifton, Circus Oz, Tracey Harvey, Glenn Robbins and Richard Stubbs Richard Stubbs (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian radio and television presenter, writer and comedian. Career Stubbs was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, where he was school captain. He then completed a Bachelor of Economics degree .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Last Laugh (comedy venue), The Comedy venues Culture of Melbourne Former theatres in Melbourne Australian comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Stage Actors
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Australian Film Actors
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Australian Television Actors
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Living People
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