Mike McColl Jones, one of television’s leading writers from the golden age of variety, has died at age 86. He was working as a travelling salesman when he scored a trial gig writing jokes for Graham Kennedy on In Melbourne Tonight. What began as a trial went on to become a professional relationship lasting on …
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Feb 22 2024
Obituary: John Barton
John Barton, former journalist and TV presenter, has died peacefully at age 73. He started as a cadet reporter at The Brisbane Telegraph in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he moved to television, to ABC‘s This Day Tonight, working in Perth and then back in Brisbane. When TDT was axed in 1978, Barton and a …
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Jan 29 2024
Obituary: Troy Beckwith
Former Neighbours star Troy Beckwith has died at age 48. News of his death was posted to social media by former castmate Kym Valentine: “It pains me so much to have to say this. Our dear old friend Troy Beckwith has passed away. Another member of our tv family gone way too soon. There will …
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Dec 31 2023
2023: We remember…
Joan Sydney Diana Fisher Gary Fenton Terry Norris Doug Mulray Swami Sarasvati Maxine Klibingaitis Barry Humphries Jock Zonfrillo Mary Fitzgerald (Parker) Ray Wilkie Peter Flett Judi Farr Alan Wilkie Sir Michael Parkinson Ron Barassi Joy Chambers Cal Wilson Les Dayman James Davern 2022: We Remember… 2021: We Remember… 2020: We Remember… 2019: We Remember… 2018: …
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Oct 24 2023
Obituary: Les Dayman
Les Dayman, actor best known for his stage and television work, including leading roles in Homicide and E Street, has died at the age of 85. His first TV roles were in plays Weather At Pinetop and Dark Corridor, both produced by ABC in Adelaide. This was followed in 1966 by his first major TV role …
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Sep 17 2023
Obituary: Joy Chambers
Joy Chambers, actor, author and wife of the late Reg Grundy, has died at age 76. Named as the inaugural Miss Surf Girl by the Queensland Surf Life Saving Club in 1965, she was doing modelling work when she auditioned for a panellist role for Brisbane-based game show I’ve Got A Secret. She caught the …
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Aug 18 2023
Obituary: Sir Michael Parkinson
Legendary British broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88 after a short illness. The Yorkshire-born journalist made his television debut in the UK in the 1960s, before launching his eponymous interview program Parkinson, which ran on BBC from 1971 until 1982 before being revived in 1998. The show then moved across …
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