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Tanamera – Lion Of Singapore
''Tanamera – Lion of Singapore'' was a 1989 Australian drama serial which was a co-production between Central Independent television and Grundy in 1989.Australian Television and International Mediascapes By Stuart Cunningham P125 , 9780521469746 Plot The lives of two leading families of Singapore, the Dexters and the Soongs, become intertwined when John Dexter falls in love with Julie Soong.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p241 Action takes place between 1935 and 1948. The series is based on the novel ''Tanamera'' by Noel Barber. "Tanamera" is the name of the house built by Grandpa Jack, the patriarch of the Dexter family; it is derived from '' Tanah Merah'', Malay for "Red Earth". The grounds of the huge Tanamera bungalow consisted largely of red soil. Cast * Christopher Bowen as John Dexter * Khym Lam as Julie Soong * Anthony Calf as Tim Dexter * Gary Sweet as Tony * John Jarratt as Neil Forbes * Anne-Louise Lamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gibbs (cricketer)
Peter John Keith Gibbs (born 17 August 1944) is an English television script writer, and a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1964 to 1966, and for Derbyshire from 1966 to 1972. Early life and career Gibbs was born at Buglawton, Cheshire, and attended Hanley High School before going up to University College, Oxford. He represented Staffordshire in Minor Counties cricket from the age of 16, making his debut against Cheshire in 1961. He continued to play regularly for Staffordshire until 1965. First-class cricket His first-class career began with Oxford University, where he played from 1964 to 1966, playing three times in the annual match against Cambridge. His highest score for Oxford was 126 against Warwickshire in 1964. Gibbs made his debut for Derbyshire in 1966 after the end of the university cricket season. He played his first County Championship match in a draw against Middlesex, and played five matches for Derbyshire that season. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tushka Bergen
Tushka Bergen (born 1969, in London, England) is an Australian actress who has worked in Australia, England, Germany and the United States. In 1988, she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini Series for her role in '' Always Afternoon''. Her mother is New Zealander Beverley Bergen, a soprano opera singer and scriptwriter. Her father is Anthony Hose, a conductor and pianist. She is married to CNN International Cable News Network International or CNN International (CNNi, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel and website, owned by CNN Worldwide. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates ... presenter John Vause, with whom she has one daughter, Katie Vause, born in 2004. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References External links *Tushka Bergenat Film Reference {{DEFAULTSORT:Bergen, Tushka Australian film actresses 1969 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Australian Drama Television Series
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 ** Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature) is a national bio-bibliographical database of Australian literature. It is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, housed at The University of Queensland (UQ). The AustLit database comprises biographical and bibliographical records of Australian storytelling and print cultures, with over 1 million individual 'work' records, and over 75 discrete research projects. One such project, BlackWords, is a dataset within AustLit detailing the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History Groups of researchers across eight universities (UNSW @ ADFA, The University of Queensland, Monash University, Flinders University, Deakin, the University of Western Australia, the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry McDermott (actor)
Terry McDermott (1928 – 14 December 2018) was an Australian stage, radio and television actor known for his roles in the series ''Homicide'' and '' Bellbird''. Early life McDermott was born in Sydney, Australia and his family later moved to Adelaide. Career McDermott's began his career performing in the theatre, appearing in plays for the Adelaide Repertory Theatre and University Theatre Guild. In Sydney, McDermott was a regular in the ABC radio serial '' Blue Hills'', and also appeared in revues at Phillip Street Theatre. In 1963, McDermott founded Sydney's Q Theatre alongside fellow performers Doreen Warburton, Ben Gabriel, Edward Hepple, Robert McDarra and Walter Sullivan. They contributed five pounds each to establish the company, enabling them to launch the Q Theatre Group’s Lunch Hour Theatre at the AMP Theatrette. It was in television however, that McDermott made his breakthrough, playing the role of Detective Sergeant Frank Bronson, one of three main chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Manning
Ned Manning is an Australian playwright, actor and teacher. His film credits include the lead role in '' Dead End Drive-In'' (1986), and television credits include '' The Shiralee'' and ''Prisoner'', and '' Brides of Christ''. His plays include ''Us or Them'', ''Milo'', ''Kenny's Coming Home'' and ''Close to the Bone''. In 2007 Manning played the lead in his own play, ''Last One Standing'', at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney. Early life Ned Manning was born in Coonabarabran, New South Wales in 1950, where he grew up on a property. His father was a progressive Labour shire president, and his mother was a socialite and budding artist. His mother died when he was twelve years old, and he wasn't particularly close with his father. Career Theatre Manning's first play, ''Us or Them'', was initially produced at the Childers Street Hall in Canberra on 1 November 1977. It was then re-written and performed in 1984 at the Stables Theatre in Sydney for the Griffin Theatre Company, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Wong (Australian Actor)
Anthony Brandon Wong (born 12 May 1965), often credited simply as Anthony Wong, is an Australian actor, singer-songwriter and acting teacher and coach. His roles include Ghost (The Matrix), Ghost in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''. Career His role of Ghost (The Matrix), Ghost from ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'' was greatly expanded in the video game ''Enter the Matrix'', in which he starred alongside Jada Pinkett Smith as the lead. Prior to landing his role as Ghost, he originally auditioned for Tank in the first film, but lost out to Marcus Chong. Wong's other roles include ''Jumping Ship'' as the leader of modern-day pirates, ''Little Fish (2005 film), Little Fish'', two stints on ''Home and Away'', Mek – a scientist in ''Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'', the 2004 film ''Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film), Flight of the Phoenix'' and as Tasuke Kogo in the 2008 six-part miniseries, ''Samurai Girl (miniseries), Samurai Girl' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coleby
Robert Coleby (born 1947) is a British actor who has spent most of his career in Australia. Active since the 1970s, he has over 70 film and television credits to his name. Coleby has acted on stage in numerous productions for the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. Early life In his late teens, Robert lived in Edington, Somerset and went to Dr Morgan's School in Bridgwater. At that time he was influenced by the beat generation, novelist Jack Kerouac and singer/songwriter Bob Dylan and performed with acoustic guitar at folk music clubs in Bridgwater and Taunton. He enjoyed hitch-hiking in Europe during the school holidays, and worked in the peat fields near Shapwick to fund his travels. Early career Coleby's real name is Robert Taylor. Since there was already a famous actor of that name, Equity rules required that he choose another. Coleby's earliest screen role was in 1970, playing the role of Fortinbras in a TV version of ''Hamlet'' in the long-running US series Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Yap
Darren Yap is an Australian actor and director based in Sydney, Australia. Family and education He was born in Sydney and grew up in the South Western Sydney suburb of Cabramatta. He was the third child of a Malaysian-born father and his third-generation Australia-born ethnically Chinese mother. His father, Robert Yap, was a medical practitioner in the western suburbs of Sydney, his brother is a pharmacist in the inner eastern suburbs of Sydney and his sister is a medical practitioner in Victoria. Yap was educated at Newington College (1980–85).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp222 He initially applied to do the stage management course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but he was not accepted. When the degree course in acting at University of Western Sydney's Theatre Nepean Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus Public university, public research universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallas Eaton
Wallas Eaton (18 February 1917 – 3 November 1995), sometimes credited as Wallace Eaton or Wallis Eaton, was an English film, radio, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his voice roles between 1949 and 1960 in the BBC radio-comedy serial '' Take It from Here''. Early life Eaton was born in Leicester, Leicestershire. He was educated at the Alderman Newton School, and later would read History and English at Christ's College, Cambridge. Eaton joined the Army in 1940, and served with distinction during World War II, eventually becoming a major in charge of a searchlight battery. Career His first stage appearance was at the Theatre Royal in his home town of Leicester in 1936. Three years later he made his London debut playing the small part of the Announcer in Auden and Isherwood's '' The Ascent of F6'' at the Old Vic. The following year Eaton played the Second Priest in Eliot's ''Murder in the Cathedral'' in 1940 and he followed this with what wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Lucas
Betty Helen Lucas (31 May 1924 – 7 April 2015), also known as Betty Lucas Peterson, was an Australian character actress and theatre director, known for her numerous roles on stage and television, starting from the post-WWII years in 1945. Early life Lucas was born in the Sydney suburb of Coogee, New South Wales to Walter Lucas and Marion Gibson. She trained with May Hollinworth at her Metropolitan Theatre. Career She moved to London in the early 1950s and appeared in stage roles, returning to Australia in 1965, she featured in TV serials, including played prominent roles in ''Prisoner'' as Clara Goddard in 1979, '' Taurus Rising'' as Faith Drysdale in 1982, and '' Richmond Hill'' as Mavis Roberts in 1988, Her numerous credits in TV roles in guest appearances in serials included ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'', '' Certain Women'', '' A Country Practice'', '' The Flying Doctors'', ''Blue Heelers'', '' All Saints'', '' Always Greener''. and ''Packed to the Raft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |