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Touch The Sun (Australian TV Series)
''Touch the Sun'' is a series of television films commissioned by Patricia Edgar for the Australian Children's Television Foundation. It was to be the ACTF's project for the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988. The Australian Bicentennial Authority named Touch the Sun as the Bicentenary official children's series for 1988. Edgar's plan was to locate stories in every state in Australia showing the diversity of the Australian landscape. It was directed, written and produced by some of the top film and tv personnel in Australia. Patricia Edgar was Executive Producer of the show and it was backed by the ABC, Australian Film Commission, the New South Wales Film Corporation, the South Australian Film and Television Financing Fund, the South Australian Film Corporation, Film Victoria and the French distribution company Revcom International.Australian Children's Television Foundation, (1986). Australian Children's Television Foundation Annual Report 1985-1986. A.C.T.F. Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Edgar
Patricia May Edgar AM is an Australian author, television producer, educator and media scholar best known as the founding director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation. Early life She was born in Mildura, Victoria, and moved to California in the 1960s with her husband (author and social researcher Dr. Don Edgar) and two children to study for an MA in Communication at Stanford University. On their return to Australia, Edgar joined the staff of La Trobe University as the inaugural Head of the Centre for the Study of media and Communication. She introduced the first courses on film and television production and cinema studies in an Australian University. At La Trobe she also completed a PhD.Keys, WendyNot in front of the kids, ''The Australian'', 1 November 2006. Roles Dr Patricia Edgar served on several government committees, such as the Australian Broadcasting Control Board which she was appointed to by Gough Whitlam's government in 1975. Whilst part of this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Tony Llewellyn-Jones is a British-born Australian actor. He was nominated for the 1976 AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in '' Picnic at Hanging Rock''. Born in London, England, Llewellyn-Jones lived in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Zimbabwe before moving to Australia in 1965. He is the son of Dr Derek Llewellyn-Jones and Elisabeth Kirkby. He has performed in films, such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'', on TV, such as a long running role on '' G.P.'', and on stage, working with Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics. It is based in Sydney. The Bell Shakespeare vision is to create theatre that allows audiences of all wal .... References External links * Biographical cuttings on Tony Llewellyn-Jones, actor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journalsat the Nationa ... [...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] |
David Williamson
David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought up in Bairnsdale. He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960, but left and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965. His early forays into the theatre were as an actor and writer of skits for the Engineers' Revue at Melbourne University's Union Theatre at lunchtime during the early 1960s, and as a satirical sketch writer for Monash University student reviews and the Emerald Hill Theatre Company. After a brief stint as design engineer for Holden, GM Holden, Williamson became a lecturer in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics at Swinburne University of Technology (then Swinburne Technical Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Williamson
Kristin Löfvén Williamson (born 1940) is an Australian journalist and author. Life Williamson was born in Melbourne, went to school in Geelong and trained as a teacher. On graduating she took up a scholarship at the University of Florence in Italy to study Italian. She taught drama in Victoria and moved to Sydney in 1979 where she worked for ''The National Times''. With her second husband David Williamson, she co-wrote the film '' Touch the Sun: Princess Kate'', she also researched his films ''The Last Bastion'' and '' Gallipoli''. She co-produced and wrote for the television series '' Dog's Head Bay''. She is the sister of Australian filmmaker Chris Löfvén Chris Löfvén (born 4 April 1948) is an Australian film maker. He is best known for directing the feature film ''Oz (1976 film), Oz'' (1976) and for directing a number of video clips, including "Eagle Rock (song), Eagle Rock". He started making .... She and her husband David have five adult children. Bibliograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ogilvie
George Buchan Ogilvie (5 March 1931 – 5 April 2020) was a prolific Australian theatre director and actor, who also worked as a director and actor within film and television. Life and career George Ogilvie began as an actor at the Canberra Repertory Theatre, and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he trained, taught and acted. In 1965, he returned to Australia to take up the position of associate director with the Melbourne Theatre Company The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre compa ..., where he stayed for six years. He then worked as artistic director at the State Theatre Company of South Australia, South Australian Theatre Company for four years, followed by 12 years as part of the subsidised theatre network. In 1988 he became a freelance director, working with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Muggleton
Amanda Lillian Muggleton (born 12 October 1951)"Muggleton, Amanda, 1951-" ''''. Retrieved 11 January 2021. is an English Australian theatre, television and film actress. She is best known for her supporting television soap opera role in '''' as Chrissie Latham, with appearance between 1979 and 1983. Her stage work in Australia includes the title roles in '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chubb
Paul Dunford (14 January 1949 – 9 June 2002), professionally billed as Paul Chubb, was an Australian film, television and stage actor and scriptwriter primarily in genres of comedy and drama. Early life He was born in Arncliffe, a suburb of Sydney. and had a brother Greg, (Timothy Bean). Career He began his career as an "everyman" character actor by studying under Hayes Gordon at the Ensemble Theatre and began to appear in television commercials, soap-operas including ''Number 96'', and television dramas. He wrote and acted in pub plays and pantomimes and segued to feature film work such as with Julie Forsyth in '' Stan and George's New Life'' (1990), which "remains a defining portrayal in a body of work that includes ''Così'', ''Bliss'' and ''Road To Nhill''," a total of 22 feature films. ''Sydney Morning Herald'' obituary, "Spontaneous, effortless... and genuine", by Doug Anderson, June 22, 2002 Chubb guest-starred as a State Member of Parliament Patrick Rafferty (Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry McDonald
Garry George McDonald AO (born 30 October 1948) is an Australian actor, satirist and comedian. In a career spanning five decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is best known as the seemingly naive celebrity interviewer Norman Gunston, through whom he pioneered the "ambush interviewer" technique since followed by many others. He received a Gold Logie award for the television ''Norman Gunston Show'' in which he developed the character. He is also famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom ''Mother and Son''. Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2003 for service to the community in the mental health field and to the arts as an entertainer, he has also been a board member of the Australian mental health organisation Beyond Blue. Career McDonald was born in Bondi, a beachside suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Cranbrook School. During his time at Cranbrook, McD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Neal (songwriter)
Christopher Hugh Neal (born 1946) is an Australian musician, songwriter, record producer and television and film music composer.Sounds Australian: Australian Music Centre Journal 1990 INTERVIEW From Midi to 80-Piece Orchestras: Chris Neal, Film Composer Michael Atherton "Chris Neal is a leading feature film composer. He studied classical piano and theory, jazz and orchestration" He is regarded as one of Australia's most successful screen composers. Some of his most notable scores include Buddies, Bodyline, The Shiralee, Turtle Beach and Farscape. He has also scored and written songs for numerous well-known children's series including Johnson and Friends, Lift-Off, Crash Zone and Noah and Saskia. Neal has won several AGSC and APRA awards for his work and was awarded Best Original Music Score at the 1985 AFI Awards for his contribution to the film score for 'Rebel'. Some of Neal's frequent collaborators have included Denny Lawrence, Bob Ellis, George Ogilvie, Matt Carroll, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Misto
John Misto (born 13 October 1952) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with an Arts/Law degree from the University of New South Wales, and then practised as a lawyer before changing his career to concentrate on working as a recognized theatre and television writer. Select credits *''A Country Practice'' (1981) *''Waterloo Station'' (1983) *'' The Young Doctors'' (1983) *'' Starting Out'' (1983) *'' Palace of Dreams'' (1985) -2 episodes *''Natural Causes'' (1985) *''Dancing Daze'' (1986) *'' The Last Frontier'' (1986) *''Dusty'' (1988) (TV series) *''Touch the Sun: Peter and Pompey'' (1988) (TV movie) *''The Dirtwater Dynasty'' (1988) *''The Fremantle Conspiracy'' (1988) *''G.P.'' (1989–91) – 3 episodes *''Butterfly Island'' (1993) (TV movie) *''The Damnation of Harvey McHugh'' (1994) – creator, 13 episodes *'' The Day of the Roses'' (1998) *''Finding Hope'' (2001) (TV movie) *'' Heroes' Mountain'' (2002) (TV movie) *'' MDA'' (2002) – 1 episode *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
