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Walter Sullivan (actor)
Walter Sullivan was an Australian actor, journalist and reviewer who worked extensively in radio, film, TV and theatre, over a career spanning 6 decades, he's stage and screen career spanning from 1948 and 1997 Select Credits *''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day'' (1960) *'' Venus Observed'' (1960) *'' Stormy Petrel'' (1960) *'' Ballad for One Gun'' (1963) *'' A Dead Secret'' (1963) *''Scobie Malone'' (1975) *''Cop Shop'' *''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1988, voice) References External linksWalter Sullivanat IMDbWalter Sullivanat Ausstage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ... Australian male actors {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slaughter Of St Teresa's Day
''The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day'' is a play by Australian author Peter Kenna. Plot Oola Maguire, a bookie, holds a party every St. Teresa's Day. The guests are the people she has quarreled with in the past year, and there is only one rule: Firearms must be parked in the hall. Her daughter Thelma is brought home from the convent she attends with two nuns. Background It won a National Playwrights Competition in 1958 and was produced in Sydney the following year by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. The judges of the competition ere Hugh Hunt and Kylie Tennant. Judge Kylie Tennant called it "a witty commentary on human behaviour, passion, pride and vanity and the curious innocence which keeps people lovable for all their cunning and downright wickedness. It has humour, tolerance and the ability to bring people on the stage alive." Kenna wrote the play while rehearsing in ''The Bells Are Ringing'' at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. "Sometimes its easier to write when y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Observed
''Venus Observed'' is a play in blank verse by the English dramatist and poet Christopher Fry. The play concerns a Duke who decides to remarry for a third time. He gets his son Edgar to pick the bride. The Duke likes Perpetua but Edgar wants her for himself. Productions It was first performed on 18 January 1950 at the St James's Theatre, London, and ran for 229 performances with the following cast: *The Duke of Altair – Laurence Olivier *Edgar, his son – Denholm Elliott *Herbert Reedbeck, his agent – George Relph *Dominic, Reedbeck's son – Robert Beaumont *Rosabel Fleming – Valerie Taylor *Jessie Dill – Brenda de Banzie *Captain Fox Reddleman, the Duke's butler – Fred Johnson *Bates, the Duke's footman – Thomas Heathcote *Hilda Taylor-Snell – Rachel Kempson *Perpetua, Reedbeck's daughter – Heather Stannard *Director – Laurence Olivier *Set designer – Roger Furse *Composer – Herbert Menges *Costume designer – Margaret Furse Scenes: *Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stormy Petrel (TV Series)
''Stormy Petrel'' is an early Australian television drama. A period drama, the 12-episode serial told the story of William Bligh and aired in 1960 on ABC. It was the first live TV serial from the ABC. It was based on a script by Rex Rienits adapted from his 1948 radio serial. The radio serial was rebroadcast in 1953. ''Stormy Petrel'' was a critical and popular success and led to the ABC making a number of period drama series set in Australia's past: '' The Outcasts'' (1961), '' The Patriots'' (1962), and ''The Hungry Ones'' (1963). It also inspired ATN-7, a commercial station, to make ''Jonah'' (1962). Telerecordings (also known as Kinescope recordings) of ''Stormy Petrel'' are held by National Archives of Australia. Premise The story of William Blighs' governorship of New South Wales leading up to the events of the Rum Rebellion. Cast * Brian James as William Bligh * Walter Sullivan as John MacArthur * Delia Williams as Mary Bligh, Bligh's daughter *Ric Hutton as John Putl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballad For One Gun
''Ballad for One Gun'' is a 1963 Australian television film about Ned Kelly broadcast on ABC. It was originally aired 17 July 1963 in Sydney and shown at later dates in other parts of Australia. It was written by Phillip Grenville Mann. The director Ray Menmuir called it "“definitely a new approach and a new treatment of the whole Ned Kelly legend." Australian drama was relatively rare on television at the time, although there had been a TV play called ''Ned Kelly'' (1959) produced. Plot The story of Ned Kelly which made him out to be "a dangerous embryo dictator, murderously vindictive and swaggeringly brutal in his hour of power." John Bell played Kelly but his face was never shown, he was only heard behind a mask. Cast * John Bell as Ned Kelly * Walter Sullivan as Captain Standish *Neil Fitzpatrick as Aaron Sherritt *Colin Gorman as Joe Byrne *Mark McManus as Dan Kelly *John Norman as Steve Hart * Bob McDarra as Curnow *Gordon Glenwright *Janice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dead Secret
''A Dead Secret'' is a 1957 play by Rodney Ackland. It is a murder drama set in 1911 London and is based on the Seddon murder trial. Plot Insurance agent Frederick Dyson owns a house in London with his wife. Among the lodgers is a misery elderly woman, Miss Lummus, who hoards her money in the house. When she is murdered, Dyson is charged with the crime. 1959 British television version A version aired 3 March 1959 as part of British television series ''ITV Play of the Week''. The adaptation was by John McKeller. This version is believed to be lost. 1959 Australian television version A television version aired 21 May 1959 on Australian broadcaster ABC. This version aired live in Melbourne, and was kinescoped for interstate broadcasts. It is not known if the kinescope still exists. It was made when Australian drama was very rare. It starred Bryce Archer who was in the film ''Smiley Gets a Gun''. Cast *Bruce Archer as Alfie, Miss Lummus' adoptive son *Kenneth Goodlett as Freder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prisoner Of Zenda
''The Prisoner of Zenda'' is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum. A sequel, ''Rupert of Hentzau'', was published in 1898 and is included in some editions of ''The Prisoner of Zenda''. The popularity of the novels inspired the Ruritanian romance genre of literature, film, and theatre that features stories set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe,John Clute and John Grant, ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'', p. 826 for example Graustark from the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, and the neighbouring countries of Syldavia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal 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. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ausstage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018. History The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
