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
''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
Synopsis
The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success o ...
'', appearing in 300 episodes from 1969-1975.
Born in
Belfast
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...
,
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
, after relocating to Australia he was one of Australian television's first news presenters at the
Nine Network with studio
TCN
TCN is the flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia. The station is currently located at 1 Denison Street, North Sydney. The licence, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Sir Frank Packer, was one o ...
from 1956-1964. Faulkner moved to the United States in the late 1970s and became a talk show host on radio station
WNIS
WNIS (790 AM) is a commercial radio station in Norfolk, Virginia, and serving the Hampton Roads radio market. WNIS is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. It airs a talk radio format.
WNIS has studios and offices on Waterside Drive i ...
in
Norfolk, Virginia until the mid-1980s.
Filmography
Television
References
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Male television actors from Northern Ireland
Male actors from Belfast
1922 births
2000 deaths
20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland emigrants to Australia