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Vince Gil
Vincent Gil (1939 – 21 August 2022), also credited as Vince Gil, was an Australian film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character ''Nightrider'' in the 1979 film '' Mad Max'', and '' Stone''. Gil had also starred in many Australian television shows, such as '' Matlock Police'', ''Neighbours'', ''A Country Practice ''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera which broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 5 November 1993, airing at 7:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,058 episodes were p ...'' and '' Prisoner''. He also acted in theatre roles from his debut in the industry in 1963 until 2007. He died on 21 August 2022, at the age of 83. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gil, Vincent 1939 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Australian male actors Australian male film actors Australian male television actors Male actors from Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan (TV Series)
''Ryan'' is an Australian adventure television series screened by the Seven Network from 27 May 1973. The series was produced by Crawford Productions and had a run of 39 one-hour episodes.Moran, Albert. ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', Allen & Unwin, 1993. p 398 Synopsis The title character was a dashing private investigator played by Rod Mullinar. (A few years prior Mullinar had briefly taken the lead role in the similar Crawfords series ''Hunter'' (1967) in its closing episodes after the original lead actor Tony Ward left the show.) Ryan's assistant Julie King was played by New Zealand-born actor Pamela Stephenson, soon to leave for England and a successful television career. Other regular characters were Tony Angelini ( Luigi Villani), a taxi driver and Ryan's regular informant, while Detective Cullen (Colin McEwan) was Ryan's main liaison with the police force.Storey, Don. ''TV Eye - Classic Australian Television''TV Eye - Classic Australian Television/ref> Prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Valley
''Secret Valley'' is an Australian children's television adventure series first shown on the ABC in 1980. It was produced by the Grundy Organisation in association with Telecip, S.A. and Spain's public broadcaster Televisión Española. Series synopsis Secret Valley is a fictitious children's holiday camp in ''Bildarra'' which has been transformed from a run-down ghost town into a resort. The children who work and visit the camp often find themselves in battle against a gang of bad kids – Spider McGlurk and his gang from "Spider Cave". These battles usually feature flour bombs and other food-related missiles and everyone inevitably ends up in a big mess. Spider McGlurk and his gang are not the biggest threat to the peace at Secret Valley. Secret Valley is also under threat of closure by the local council, and property developer William Whopper (also known as 'WW') played by Hugh Keays-Byrne. It was produced by Roger Mirams who also produced the series '' Professor Poopsnag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cop Shop
''Cop Shop'' is a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes. The show The show revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plainclothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station. It also took a significant interest in the private lives of the characters. ''Australian Television Information Archive.'' 15 July 1999. Retrieved 10 September 2013. While many Crawford Productions police dramas combined videotaped interiors with location footage shot on film, ''Cop Shop'' was shot entirely on video, including external scenes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily At Dawn
''Daily at Dawn'' was an Australian sitcom that screened in 1981 on the Seven Network. The series was written and produced by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler, the team behind other popular Australian comedy series such as ''Kingswood Country'', '' Hey Dad..!'' and ''The Naked Vicar Show''. Synopsis The series was set in the office of a metropolitan newspaper. It was the first Australian comedy series to feature a regular gay character (Terry Bader as journalist Leslie).Howes, Keith. (1998, February). "Gays of Our Lives". Outrage, Number 177, 38-49. Cast * Noeline Brown as Phil Maguire * Paul Chubb as Russell Ducke * Terry Bader as Leslie Windrush * Henri Szeps as Joe Parker * Julieanne Newbould Julieanne Newbould (born 1957) is an Australian actress who first came to prominence in the 1970s. Newbould was 16 years old when she played Karen in the 1974 ABC telemovie ''Lindsay’s Boy''. She then worked in several television series for t ... as Kate Ashton * Robert Hughes as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Timeless Land
''The Timeless Land'' (1941) is a work of historical fiction by Eleanor Dark (1901–1985). The novel ''The Timeless Land'' is the first of ''The Timeless Land'' trilogy of novels about European settlement and exploration of Australia. Story and characters The narrative is told from European and Aboriginal points of view. The novel begins with two Aboriginal men watching the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788. The novel describes the first years of the colony and the diplomacy of captain Arthur Phillip, famine and the effects of outside diseases on the previously unexposed Aboriginal population. The novel ends in a dramatic climax when troops encounter an escaped convict. Dark conducted her historical research at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Watkin Tench, author of ''The Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson'', is a key character in ''The Timeless Land''. The book has been reprinted in 2002 and novel was on the curriculum for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingswood Country
''Kingswood Country'' is an Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on the Seven Network. The series started on 30 January 1980 and was a spin-off from the sketch on comedy program ''The Naked Vicar Show'' that had featured Ross Higgins as blustering suburban father, Ted Bullpitt. It was written by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler and produced by their production company, RS Productions. The show won Logie Awards for Best Comedy in 1981 and 1982, and was briefly revived in a spin-off in 1997 titled '' Bullpitt'', although it proved less successful. Premise The show is a family sitcom focusing on the main character, Edward Melba "Ted" Bullpitt (Ross Higgins), a white Australian, conservative, Holden Kingswood-loving putty factory worker and WWII veteran and his interactions with his more progressive wife and two adult children. He lives for three things: his beloved chair in front of the TV, his unsuccessful racing greyhounds Repco Lad and Gay Akubra and his Holden Kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snapshot (film)
''Snapshot'' (also known as ''The Day After Halloween'' and ''One More Minute'' in the US) is a 1979 Australian thriller film directed by Simon Wincer in his feature film directorial debut. It stars Sigrid Thornton, Chantal Contouri and Robert Bruning. The film was shot on an estimated budget of $300,000. Plot Angela, a young, naive hairdresser in Melbourne dreams of saving enough money to leave the country and live abroad, but is under the thumb of her overbearing, puritanical mother who oversees Angela's finances. One day, Angela is pushed by one of her clients, Madeline, a glamorous model, to pursue print modeling. Angela reluctantly agrees, and completes an outdoor photoshoot with a photographer named Linsey in which she is coaxed into posing nude on the beach. After attending a party with Madeline, Angela returns home to find her mother has locked her out, later discovering she did so upon finding that Angela was modeling. Her ex-boyfriend Daryl, an ice cream truck driver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Soak
''Golden Soak'' is a 1979 Australian-British mini series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia. It was based on the 1973 book of the same title written by Hammond Innes.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p200 Cast * Ray Barrett - Alec Hamilton * Elizabeth Alexander - Janet Garrety * Bill Hunter - Chris Culpin * Christiane Kruger - Rosa Hamilton * David Cameron - Johnny Culpin * Ruth Cracknell - Prophesy References External links''Golden Soak''at IMDb''Golden Soak''at 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 betwee ... 1970s Australian television miniseries 1979 Australian television series debuts Films directed by Henri Safran English-language television shows 1979 Australian television ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Against The Wind (miniseries)
''Against the Wind'' is a 1978 Australian television miniseries. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia. Jon English won the Logie Award in 1979 for "Best New Talent" for his role in the miniseries as "Jonathan Garrett". It was the first major Australian TV production to be broadcast in the United States. A soundtrack was also released, topping the charts in Norway and reaching the top 10 in Australia and Sweden. Plot Set during Australia's colonial era over the period 1798–1812, the series follows the life of Mary Mulvane, a daughter of an Irish school master. At 18, she is transported to New South Wales for a term of seven years after attempting to take back her family's milk cow which had been seized by the British "in lieu of tithes" to the local proctor. She endures the trial of a convict sea journey to New South Wales and years of service as a convict before her emancipation and life as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chopper Squad
''Chopper Squad'' is an Australian television series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the 0-10 Network (as it was then known).Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 115 The series recounted the work of a helicopter rescue team operating on Dee Why beach in Sydney. Production Pilot The original pilot was made in 1976, airing in Melbourne in November 1976 and Newcastle (NSW) in August 1977. There was quite a time lag between the pilot and the series going to air in May 1978. As with many series there were changes between the initial pilot and the series. Three actors from the pilot did not continue into the series - Rebecca Gilling, Max Osbiston and Tony Bonner. Additionally, the surnames of characters Phil and Tim were changed. Series The pilot was followed by two series with a total of 26 episodes airing between 1978 and 1979. Shortly after the show began, the " rescue helicopter base" moved its operations from Dee Why Beach Surf Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
