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Lesley Baker
Lesley Baker (born 20 January 1944) is an Australian actress, singer, dancer and comedian. She is best known internationally for her small screen roles in cult series ''Prisoner'' and her recurring role in ''Neighbours''. Career Early career Baker started her career, participating in a comedy revue in 1963, which in turn lead to a starring role in a production of the musical comedy '' How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''. She then appeared on Australian variety television show ''In Melbourne Tonight'' with Graham Kennedy, for a year, performing comedy sketches, hosting and singing. She played several lead stage roles including Fanny Brice in a Sydney season of '' Funny Girl'', and Madame Rose in the first ever Australian production of ''Gypsy''. Further musical stage comedies, and television variety work followed. In 1971 Baker secured her own television morning show, ''The Incredible Lesley Baker Show''. However, this proved to be short-lived, as internal poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stonefish Rebecchi
Kevin Rebecchi (commonly known as "Stonefish" or "Stonie") is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Anthony Engelman. He made his first appearance on 31 March 1994. Stonefish was the first of the Rebecchi family to appear and he was later followed by his mother, father and brothers. The character left in 1996, but returned briefly in 2003. In 2007, Engelman reprised his character again and Stonefish returned to Ramsay Street. He departed on 28 August 2007. The character then returned for brief guest stints from 2015 until 2018. Creation and casting Anthony Engelman had previously appeared in the serial as a bully a few years prior to re-joining as Stonefish. He told a writer for '' Inside Soap'' that his first script said that the character got his nickname because he looked like a stonefish. The actor quipped "They'd written that before they'd even cast me! When I got my script I was like 'What the hell does a stonefish look like anyway?!' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Solo One
''Solo One'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network and screened in 1976. There were 13 half-hour episodes. Synopsis The series was a spin-off from Crawford's other police show ''Matlock Police'' and featured Paul Cronin reprising his role as Senior Constable Gary Hogan, but tailored for a younger audience. It was set in the real country town of Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne and used the town's actual police station. In the series Hogan sorts out problems for the locals. His call sign is Solo One, hence the series title. Cast Main * Paul Cronin as Senior Constable Gary Hogan * Aileen Britton as Aunt Nan * Keith Eden as Joe Porter Guests * Alwyn Kurts as Alfonso (1 episode) * Elspeth Ballantyne as Sylvia Simpson (1 episode) * George Spartels as Harry Thomas (1 episode) * Gus Mercurio as Pickett (1 episode) * Lesley Baker as Mrs Pickett (1 episode) * Lionel Long as Bob Williams (1 episode) * Lyndel Rowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Last Of The Australians
''The'' is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
