''Bony'' is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (
Cameron Daddo
Cameron Peter Daddo (born 7 March 1965) is an Australian actor, musician and presenter. From 1987 to 1988, he hosted dating game show '' Perfect Match Australia''. He won two Logie Awards for his performances in '' Golden Fiddles'' and ''Track ...
) as the title character Detective David John "Bony" Bonaparte, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine played by
Burnum Burnum
Burnum Burnum (10 January 1936 – 17 August 1997) was an Aboriginal Australian sportsman, activist, actor, and author. He was a Woiworrung and Yorta Yorta man at Wallaga Lake in southern New South Wales. He was originally christened Harry Pe ...
. Bony was supposed to be a descendant of the
Bony character created by
Arthur Upfield
Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 12 February 1964) was an English-Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a mixed-race ...
in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.
[Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 89]
Cast
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Cameron Daddo
Cameron Peter Daddo (born 7 March 1965) is an Australian actor, musician and presenter. From 1987 to 1988, he hosted dating game show '' Perfect Match Australia''. He won two Logie Awards for his performances in '' Golden Fiddles'' and ''Track ...
as Detective David John "Bony" Bonaparte
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Burnum Burnum
Burnum Burnum (10 January 1936 – 17 August 1997) was an Aboriginal Australian sportsman, activist, actor, and author. He was a Woiworrung and Yorta Yorta man at Wallaga Lake in southern New South Wales. He was originally christened Harry Pe ...
as "Uncle Albert" Harris
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Christian Kohlund
Christian Kohlund (born 17 August 1950 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actor and director.
Selected filmography
* '' The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet'' (1958), as School boy
* ''The Pedestrian'' (1973), as Erwin Gotz
* ' (1975), as Oberfeld ...
as Detective Sergeant Frank Fisher
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Terence Cooper
Terence Cooper (5 July 1933 – 16 September 1997) was a British film actor, best known for his roles in Australian and New Zealand television and film.
Biography
Born in 1933 at Carnmoney, a district of the modern-day borough of Newtownabbey ...
as Inspector Leo Vincetti
* Mandy Bowden as Constable Bev Miles
Pilot
The pilot film to the series aired in 1990. It concerns Bony investigating an attempted rape allegation.
[Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p17]
See also
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''Boney'' (TV series)
References
External links
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''Blackwater Trail''at
IMDb
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Australian television films
1990s Australian drama television series
1992 Australian television series debuts
Television shows based on Australian novels
1990s Australian crime television series
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