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Backberner
''BackBerner'' was an Australian political satire sketch comedy television series, broadcast on and produced by ABC TV with Crackerjack Productions (now Fremantle Australia). The program was hosted by stand-up comic Peter Berner and noted Australian character actor Louise Siversen. The series aired from 19 August 1999 to 14 November 2002. Synopsis The show parodied the current affairs format with Berner, but most frequently Siversen engaged in interviews with various representatives and authorities on the subjects of that week's news stories to discuss the issue, with various comedians playing the role of the interviewees. The most common of these characters were Dr Dennis Johnson who covered medical issues and Dexter Pinion, the far-right conservative correspondent for government reconciliation who frequently railed against the supposedly left-leaning " AB-friggin'-C". Numerous other character actors often made return appearances under different names, such as Nicholas Hammo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Berner
Peter Berner (born February 1963) is an Australian stand-up comedian and television and radio presenter. He hosted ''The Einstein Factor'' and ''Backberner'' on ABC Television. He previously hosted the news comedy TV series '' The B Team with Peter Berner'' on Sky News Australia. Early life Berner was born in Singapore to a Danish father and an Australian mother of Scottish descent. He moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1964. He is a graduate of the National Art School in Sydney where he majored in painting and was on the student council. Career 1988–1998: Early stand-up years Berner started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1988. His career grew throughout the early 1990s and he performed at various festivals, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Sydney Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Comedy Festival. He wrote and performed many solo shows in Australia and the UK during this time and established a following of comedy fans. He would also make frequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Riggs
Rebecca Riggs is an Australian actress best known for her role as Commandant Grayza in the science fiction television series ''Farscape''. Career Film Riggs had parts in films such as''Jerry Maguire'' and '' Raw Nerve''. Television Riggs played the recurring role of Commandant Grayza in the TV show ''Farscape''. She has also appeared in many Australian television series including ''Backberner'', '' All Saints'', '' Day of the Roses'', '' Medivac'' and ''Fire''. Theatre Riggs has appeared as a stage performer in Australia with such companies as Bell Shakespeare Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Darwin Theatre Company, La Boite and TN. She has undertaken a variety of theatre roles . She has played Juliet and Lady Capulet in two different productions of ''Romeo and Juliet'', Lady Macbeth in ''Macbeth'', Trinculo in ''The Tempest'', Bianca in ''Othello'', Viola in ''Twelfth Night'' and Kate in ''The Taming of the Shrew''. She has also appeared in modern Australian pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Whitford
Peter Whitford (born 1939) is an Australian former radio, theatre, television and film character actor known for numerous roles particularly as wealthy businessmen and members of the aristocracy. Early life Peter Whitford was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He studied at Sydney's NIDA, graduating in 1963 with Diploma of Dramatic Art (Acting). Career Whitford is an actor, playwright, director and singer, who started his career in radio roles and then in theatre, beginning in 1958. From the 1960s he then began appearing in film and television roles, which he continued up until 2010. When he graduated from NIDA in 1963, Whitford performed in ABC Radio play, ''King of Hearts''. He then played Jack Porter in the long-running radio serial '' Blue Hills''. Whitford's theatre credits are numerous. His early stage roles were in university theatre at NIDA, in plays such as ''Julius Caesar'', ''Hamlet'', ''The Crucible'', ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''The Cherry Orchard''. He went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Fowler
Alexandra Fowler (born 6 December 1961) is an Australian actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Angela Hamilton in ''Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series), Sons and Daughters'' (1982–1984), Zoe Davis in ''Neighbours'' (1986) and Laura Allen in ''Big Sky (Australian TV series), Big Sky'' (1997). She was also a member of 1980s Australian pop group, Chantoozies. Career Television Fowler had small roles in ''The Young Doctors'' and ''Sara Dane'', before coming to prominence playing Angela Hamilton (later Palmer Keegan) in the Reg Grundy Organisation, Grundy series ''Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series), Sons and Daughters'' from 1982 and 1984, through 327 episodes. She joined the cast of ''Neighbours'' as Zoe Davis in 1986, after being approached by the Grundy Organisation. After deciding not to extend her contract with the serial, Fowler departed in September 1986. She also played a regular role in another Grundy soap ''Possession (TV series), Possession'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Curran
Lynette Curran is an Australian actress known for many roles in Australian television series and films, including the soap opera '' Bellbird'', and the films '' Country Town'' (1971) and ''Bliss'' (1985). Career Theatre She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes ''The Country Wife'', '' Rookery Nook'', ''Richard II'', ''Just Between Ourselves'', and ''Ashes'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also played in ''Steaming'' for the Seymour Centre in Sydney.Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) ''The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz'', Sunshine Books, 1984. p 54 Film and television Curran was a cast member of soap opera '' Bellbird'' when it started in 1967. She left the series permanently in 1974; at the time she left she was the program's last remaining original cast member. Curran acted in the film version of the serial '' Country Town'' (1971). She made several other film appearances in the 1970s, with roles in sex comedy '' Alvin Purple'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood (born ) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name. Haywood has also worked as a casting director, art director, sound recordist, camera operator, gaffer, grip, location and unit manager. Early life and education Haywood was born around 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he emigrated to Australia. Career Soon after arriving in Sydney, Haywood became involved with the Nimrod Theatre Company, helping to build the premises with scrap timber. He was the artistic director of the Pros and Cons Playhouse at Parramatta Gaol from 1979 to 1981, and established the drama service on Kiribati National Radio. His acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leon Ford
Leon Ford is an Australian actor who has appeared in many television and theatre productions. He is best known for his roles in the television series ''The Cooks'', ''Changi'' and the telemovie ''Stepfather of the Bride''. Early life Ford attended Telopea Park School and Narrabundah College in Canberra, Australia. Career Film & television Ford portrayed 1st Lieutenant Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones in the Emmy award-winning HBO miniseries ''The Pacific'', which follows the story of World War II Marines through different battles of the Pacific theater of war. He has also appeared in many other television series and films including '' All Saints'', ''East West 101'' and ''McLeod's Daughters'', the 2005 movie ''The Great Raid'' and voiced a character in the 2008 stop motion animated movie '' $9.99''. He recently appeared in the joint BBC and Stan production ''Ten Pound Poms'' and Baz Luhrmann's feature film ''Elvis''. Stage Stage roles include playing pious charlatan Tartuffe in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Baines
Bob Baines (born 1952) is an Australian actor. He has starred in many television shows including '' State Coroner'' opposite Wendy Hughes as Clive Trimble, '' Water Rats'' and ''Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, N ...'' as school principal Martin Bartlett. Filmography Film Television Theatre As actor As crew References External links * * http://backtothebay.net/features/behind-the-scenes-29th-october.shtml 1952 births 20th-century Australian male actors 21st-century Australian male actors Australian male film actors Australian male soap opera actors Living people Male actors from Sydney People educated at Sydney Boys High School Long stubs with short prose {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Manon
Christian Manon is a French-Australian actor based in Sydney. He is best known for his work in Australian theatre and television. His most notable film role was "Mael" in the film adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, ''Queen of the Damned''. Early life Christian Manon was born in southwestern France. Career Manon appeared in five stage productions with the Sydney Theatre Company. Television appearances include ''True Story with Hamish & Andy''. His feature film credits include ''Queen of the Damned ''Queen of the Damned'' is a 2002 horror film directed by Michael Rymer from a screenplay by Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni, and based on the 1988 novel ''The Queen of the Damned'' by Anne Rice, the third novel of the book series ''The Vampi ...''. Filmography Film Television References External links *Official website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Opolski
Nicholas Opolski is an Australian actor, who is best known for his role as Evan Hancock on the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' in 2001–2002. He has also provided the voice of B2, one of the characters in the children's television show ''Bananas in Pyjamas'' for the ABC. He also worked as a presenter on another ABC Kids show '' Play School'' since 1992–1994. His hobbies are reading biographies, swimming, traveling and playing tennis. Filmography Film *''I Can't Get Started'' (TV movie, 1985) as Nicholas *'' For Love Alone'' (1986) *''The Facts of Life Down Under'' (TV movie, 1987) *''13 Gantry Row'' (TV movie, 1998) *''Curtin'' (2007) as Fred McLaughlin Television *''A Country Practice'' (1991) *''Bananas in Pyjamas'' (1992–2001) as B2 (voice) *'' Play School'' (1992–94) as Presenter *'' G.P.'' (1993) *'' Water Rats'' (1998, S2 E7-8) *''BackBerner'' (2001) *''Neighbours'' (2001–02) as Evan Hancock *''Blue Heelers ''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
