Actor Terry Gill, star of many Australian television dramas, has died at the age of 75 after being diagnosed with lung cancer. English-born Gill made his first appearances on Australian TV in the late 1960s in dramas Hunter and Bellbird. During the Seventies he appeared in children’s series Alpha Scorpio and in cop dramas The Long …
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Dec 31 2014
2014: We remember…
Peter Benardos James Condon Charlotte Dawson Wendy Hughes Ian Ross Paul Ramsay Harry Potter Leigh Spence Ian Cook Greg Coote John Walton Stephanie Quinlan Bill Kerr Kerrie Biddell Russ Tyson Barry McQueen Elaine Lee Tony Dickinson Terence Gallacher Mike Dorsey Coralie Condon Bobo Faulkner 2013: We Remember… 2012: We Remember… 2011: We Remember… 2010: …
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Dec 29 2014
Obituary: Bobo Faulkner
Bobo Faulkner, former model and Melbourne television personality, died earlier this month in the UK after a battle with cancer. She was 73. Born Ann Minchin, she was given the nickname Bobo by her then husband, actor Trader Faulkner. She came to Australia from England in the late 1960s and was established as a model when she made …
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Dec 25 2014
Obituary: Coralie Condon
Coralie Condon, one of the pioneers of television in Western Australia, has died at the age of 99. She passed away in the early hours of Christmas Eve at the Castledare Retirement Village in Perth. With an interest in theatre from an early age, although she was working at the Public Works Department, Condon became known as …
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Oct 31 2014
Obituary: Mike Dorsey
Mike Dorsey, the actor best known for playing Reg “Daddy” MacDonald in Number 96, has died in Western Australia. Number 96 writer David Sale tweeted news of Dorsey’s passing earlier this week. Born in England, Dorsey migrated to Australia in the mid-1960s and soon started appearing in guest roles in various TV series including Hunter, …
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Oct 05 2014
Obituary: Terence Gallacher
Terence Gallacher, one of the pioneers of production in Melbourne television, has died at the age of 85. Educated in London, Gallacher began his career as an office boy at British Movietone News in 1945. He worked his way up to the position of Foreign Editor and had been involved in preparing news film for BBC‘s early …
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Sep 24 2014
Obituary: Tony Dickinson
Former TV newsreader Tony Dickinson has passed away following a battle with cancer. Originally working in radio, Dickinson was newsreader at Sydney radio stations 2UW and 2UE. At 2UE he was the first newsreader to break the news of the Granville train disaster on the morning of 18 January 1977. He also had a stint as program …
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Sep 19 2014
Obituary: Elaine Lee
Elaine Lee, the South African born actress best known to Australians as Vera Collins in Number 96, has died at the age of 75. An established actress in South Africa, Lee came to Australia in 1970 with husband, actor Garth Meade. “I was going to do the housewife thing. I had no intention of acting at all,” …
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Sep 19 2014
Obituary: Barry McQueen
Former TV journalist and newsreader Barry McQueen has died at the age of 82. Born in Sydney, McQueen began studying medicine at Sydney University but later opted for a career in radio announcing. He later became a newsreader and presenter for ABC and GTV9 and worked overseas at the BBC. He was appointed as newsreader for …
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