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Woobinda, Animal Doctor
''Woobinda (Animal Doctor)'' was an Australian children's television series about a veterinarian in a fictitious town in rural New South Wales. Cast Main cast * Don Pascoe as John Stevens * Lutz Hochstraate as Peter Fischer * Sonia Hofmann as Tiggie Stevens * Slim De Grey as Jack Johnson * Bindi Williams as Kevin Stevens Guest cast * Frankie Davidson as Towtruck Driver * Steve Dodd * Barbara Frawley as Miss Webber * Reg Gorman (1 episode) * Edward Howell as Doctor * Bobby Limb * Kerry McGuire (1 episode) * Richard Meikle (1 episode) * Max Phipps * Chips Rafferty as Grazier (2 episodes) * Chuck Faulkner (1 episode) * Jack Thompson as Lenny (1 episode) * Jacki Weaver (1 episode) * Sheila Kennelly (1 episode) * Stewart Ginn (1 episode) Production Writers included Ron McClean and Michael Wright. References External links''Woobinda (Animal Doctor)''at IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Phipps
Maxwell John Phipps (18 November 1939 – 6 August 2000) was an Australian actor, known for a number of roles in theatre, films and television during the 1960s until the end of the 1990s. Phipps' most notable roles included portraying Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the six-hour television miniseries '' The Dismissal'' (1983). Life and career Phipps was born in Dubbo and grew up in Parkes. He started his acting training in Sydney at the age of 21, at the Ensemble Theatre. There he appeared in such productions as ''Buffalo Skinner'', ''Long Day's Journey into Night'', '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'', '' The Removalists'' and '' Rooted''. In the Sydney Opera House's inaugural season he played Harry Bustle in '' What If You Died Tomorrow?''. In London he reprised this role, as well as appearing in ''Don's Party''. He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in ''The Rocky Horror Show'' in Melbourne in 1975–77. His most notable screen roles included Bernie Dump in '' The Miraculous Mellops'', Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Australian Television Series Debuts
1969 (Roman numerals, MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – USS Enterprise fire, An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. * January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. * January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Australian Drama Television Series
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Original Programming
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse) Australian (1858 – 15 October 1879) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was exported to the United States where he had modest success as a racehorse but became a very successful and influential breeding stallion. Back ..., a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Ginn (actor)
Stewart Ginn (2 January 192120 September 1971) was an Australian radio, stage and television actor, best known as the character Nancarrow in the 1960s television comedy '' My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?''. Career Radio Stewart Ginn first became known in radio, after playing the main role in '' The Air Adventures of Hop Harrigan'' (1954), among other roles. Stage Ginn then became a stage actor, his credits including Sidney Howard's '' They Knew What They Wanted'' with Zoe Caldwell in 1953and ''His Excellency'' with Barry Humphries in 1954, the latter winning him an Erik Kuttner Award. In 1954, he appeared in productions of ''The Heiress'' with Zoe Caldwell and Garson Kanin's '' Born Yesterday'' with Zoe Caldwell and Ray Lawler. He performed in Shakespeare's ''Henry V'' at the 1964 Adelaide Festival of Arts, alongside John Bell, Dennis Olsen, Anna Volska and Max Meldrum. He also appeared in John Mortimer's ''Lunch Hour'' in 1965, Eugene O'Neill's ''A Moon for the Misbego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Kennelly
Sheila Kennelly (born 28 December 1937) also credited as Sheila Kenneally, is a British-born Australian retired character actress of theatre and music hall, television and film, with a career spanning over 50 years. From the late 1950s onwards, her early career was based exclusively in theatre and she didn't start her screen career until the late 1960s becoming well known for her roles in TV soap operas, serials, sitcoms and mini-series. She is best known locally and internationally for her role in ''Home and Away'' as Floss McPhee in that series first year (with several guest stints), before being written out as producers wanted to concentrate on a younger and updated cast. Previously she was known locally as Norma Whittaker in '' Number 96 and in sitcom '' Kingswood Country''Oram, James "Home and Away" ''Behind the Scenes'' Early life Kennelly was born in Brighton, Sussex, England in December 1937 and arrived with her family in Australia at an early age, where she attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Her accolades include five AACTA Awards (including the Longford Lyell Award) and a National Board of Review Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Weaver emerged in the 1970s during the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as ''Stork'' (1971), '' Alvin Purple'' (1973), and '' Petersen'' (1974). She later starred in '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), '' Caddie'' (1976), '' Squizzy Taylor'' (1982), and a number of television films and miniseries. She also starred in Australian productions of plays such as '' Death of a Salesman'' and '' A Streetcar Named Desire''. Weaver received international attention and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the crime film '' Animal Kingdom'' (2010) and the comedy drama film '' Silver Linings Playbook'' (2012), the former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Thompson (actor)
John Hadley Thompson, AM (né Pain; born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and a major figure of Australian cinema, particularly Australian New Wave. He is best known for his role as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as '' The Club'' (1980), '' Sunday Too Far Away'' (1975), '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982) and '' Petersen'' (1974). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society, and was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. Early life Born John Hadley Pain in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was five years old when his mother Marjorie died, leaving his father Harold (a purser for Qantas seconded to the RAAF during the war) unable to care for him and his brother, David. He was sent to "LakeHouse orphanage" in Narrabeen by his aunt and subsequently adopted by the poet and ABC broadcaster Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Faulkner
Charles Stephen Faulkner (21 October 19224 December 2000), professionally Chuck Faulkner, was a Northern Irish–born Australian actor and US radio talk show host. He was best known for his role as Detective Senior Sergeant Keith Vickers in the Australian television police drama ''Division 4''. Early life Faulkner was born on 21 October 1922 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was named 'Charles Stephen' after his father, but his mother started called him 'Chuck' from an early age, and it stuck. He migrated to Australia with his parents in 1927, at the age of four, growing up in Chippendale, Sydney, alongside his two sisters. He lived in Australia for nearly 20 years, before relocating to the States with his wife Essie, after both of his sisters married American servicemen. Initially, Faulkner wanted to become a jockey, but after entertaining the forces in a concert party, show business beckoned. He garnered years of experience in the United States, attending and graduating from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chips Rafferty
John William Pilbean Goffage MBE (26 March 190927 May 1971), known professionally as Chips Rafferty, was an Australian actor. Called "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Rafferty's career stretched from the late 1930s until he died in 1971, and during this time he performed regularly in major Australian feature films as well as appearing in British and American productions, including '' The Overlanders'' and '' The Sundowners''. He appeared in commercials in Britain during the late 1950s, encouraging British emigration to Australia. Early days John William Pilbean Goffage was born at Billy Goat Hill, near Broken Hill, New South Wales to John Goffage, an English-born stock agent, and Australian-born Violet Maude Joyce.Pike, A. (1996) "Goffage, John William Pilbean hips Rafferty(1909–1971)", ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 14, Melbourne University Press. Gaining the nickname "Chips" as a school boy, Rafferty studied at Parramatta Commercial School. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
