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Diane Cilento was an Australian actress from Queensland. She had partial Italian descent. She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For a theatrical role as Helen of Troy, Cilento was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
In 1932, Cilento was born in Brisbane, Queensland's state capital, to a relatively affluent family. Her maternal grandfather was the prominent merchant Charles Thomas McGlew (1870-1931), founder of the Liberty Motor Oil Company. Cliento's father was the medical practitioner Raphael "Ray" Cilento (1893-1985). He became famous as the director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, the director of the Commonwealth Government's Division of Tropical Hygiene, the Director-General of Health and Medical Services, the president of the Queensland's Medical Board, a high-ranking member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Director for Refugees and Displaced Persons, and director of disaster relief in Palestine. Raphael spend much of his career combating malaria and other tropical diseases.
Cilento's mother was the medical practitioner and medical journalist Phyllis Cilento (née McGlew, 1894 - 1987). Phylis became famous for advocating family planning, contraception, and the legalization of abortion in Australia. She wrote many books on health matters. Her medical research involved the use of Vitamin E in therapy, and as a method for preventing blood clots.
Cilento was the fifth of six children born to her famous parents. Four or her siblings followed their parents' footsteps as medical practitioners. Cilento's most famous sibling was the professional painter and print-maker Margaret Cilento (1923-2006). Margaret's works are preserved in both the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia.
Cilento was expelled from school while living in Australia. She then studied abroad, spending part of her school years in the U.S. state of New York. She decided to follow an acting career and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), located in London. She settled in England during the early 1950s.
Following her graduation from RADA, Cilento started a career as a theatrical actress. She was eventually offered a five-year contract by the British film producer Alexander Korda (1893-1956), and took the offer. She started out with several small roles in film. Her first leading role was playing British governess Ruth Elton in the romantic drama "Passage Home" (1955). In the film, Elton rejects a marriage proposal from Captain Lucky Ryland (played by Peter Finch), who she barely knows. Ryland then tries to rape her. She eventually marries another man, but she is secretly in love with her would-be rapist.
During the late 1950s, Cilento found steady work in British films. She played the only woman in a love triangle in the circus-themed "The Woman for Joe" (1955). She played the between maid in the castaway-themed "The Admirable Crichton" (1957), an adaptation of a play by J. M. Barrie (1860-1937). She played a free-thinker in the romantic comedy "The Truth About Women" (1957),concerning the memories of an old man. She also had a role in the aviation disaster film "Jet Storm" (1959), in which a man has placed a bomb on a passenger airplane.
In the early 1960s, Cilento continued to have notable roles. She played the female lead Denise Colby in the psychological thriller "The Full Treatment" (1960). In the film Denise's husband struggles with mood swings and the dark impulse to kill his wife, which makes him fear for his sanity. The film was one of the murder-themed films produced by Hammer Film Productions.
Cilento played the supporting role of a murder suspect's wife in the thriller film "The Naked Edge" (1961). The film is mainly remembered as the last film role for protagonist Gary Cooper (1901-1961), who died of prostate cancer following the film's completion. Cilento played the murder victim Liane Dane in the crime film "I Thank a Fool" (1962), where a female doctor is suspected of killing her own patient.
Cilento played the most acclaimed role of her career as Molly Seagrim in the comedy film "Tom Jones" (1963), the title character's first love. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but the award was instead won by rival actress Margaret Rutherford (1892 - 1972).
Cilento next played one of the murder suspects in the crime film "The Third Secret" (1964). In the film a well-known psychoanalyst is found murdered within his own residence, and a number of his patients are suspected of killing him. The main plot twist is that the victim was killed by someone much closer to him than his patients.
Cilento also played the prostitute Cyrenne in the comedy-drama film "Rattle of a Simple Man" (1964). The film concerns the efforts of 39-year-old virgin man to finally have sex. She next played the Italian noblewoman Contessina Antonia Romola de' Medici in the historical film "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965), a fictionalized version of the life of the artist Michelangelo (1475-1564). The film was critically acclaimed and nominated for awards, but under-performed at the box office. The struggling studio 20th Century Fox reportedly lost over 5 million dollars due to this box office flop.
Cilento had the supporting role of the caretaker Jessie in the revisionist Western film "Hombre" (1967). The film depicted the relations between the Apache and the white men in 19th-century Arizona. The film earned 12 million dollars in the worldwide box office, one of the greatest hits in its year for release.
Cilento's last film role in the 1960s was the photographer Reingard in the film "Negatives" (1968). The film concerned a couple who liked to role-play as part of their erotic fantasies, however they chose to play the role of famous murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862-1910) and his lover. This film is remembered as the directorial debut of Hungarian expatriate Peter Medak (1937-), who later had a lengthy career.
Cilento gained her first regular television role when cast as Lady Sarah Bellasize in the prison-themed television series "Rogues' Gallery" (1968-1969). It depicted life in the famous Newgate Prison (1188 -1902) of London during the 18th century. The series lasted 2 seasons and a total of 10 episodes.
Following a hiatus in her film career, Cilento returned in the dystopian science fiction film "Z.P.G." ( "Zero Population Growth", 1972). The film depicted a future Earth suffering from overpopulation and environmental destruction. The world's government has decreed than no new child must be born over the next 30 years, but a couple decide to illegally procreate. Cilento played the supporting role of Edna Borden. Borden offers to help conceal the new baby from the world, while she actually wants to keep it for herself. The film's was well received in its time, and lead actress Geraldine Chaplin (1944-) won an award for this role.
Cilento played the role of the famous German test pilot Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979) in the historical film "Hitler: The Last Ten Days". (1973) The film depicted the last few days in the life of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), based on the eye-witness account of Gerhard Boldt (1918 - 1981). The authenticity of the source book has since been questioned.
Cilento had a supporting role in the classic horror film "The Wicker Man" (1973), concerning a neo-pagan cult which practices Celtic paganism. The film was based on a novel by David Pinner (1940-). The film won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, and has often been listed among the best British films. It was one of the most acclaimed films of Cilento's career.
The lesser known film "The Tiger Lily" (1975) included Cilento's last film role in the 1970s. She gained another regular role in the television series "Tycoon" (1978), which only lasted a single season and a total of 13 episodes.
Her film career was in decline during the 1980s, and Cilento chose to return to her native Queensland. She settled in the small town of Mossman, named after the Mossman River which flows though it. She built the outdoor theater Karnak in the local rain-forest, which she operated for the rest of her life. She used the theater as a venue for experimental drama.
In 2001, Cilento was awarded with Australian's Centenary Medal for her services to theater. In 2007, Cilento published her autobiography "My Nine Lives". In her last years she was suffering from cancer. In 2011, she died due to this disease while hospitalized in the Cairns Base Hospital. The hospital was the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland. Cilento was 79-years-old at the time of her death.
Cilento was survived by her daughter Giovanna Volpe and her son Jason Connery (1963-), her only heirs. A collection of items from her personal estate was donated by her heirs to the Queensland University of Technology. The collection reportedly included "hundreds of books, memorabilia, posters, furniture". Also included were original scripts which Cilento had inherited from her last husband, the playwright Anthony Shaffer. Original scripts by both Cilento and Shaffer have been digitized, and made available to scholars through the University's digital collections.- Writer
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Steve Irwin was born in 1962 to parents Lyn and Bob Irwin, who were animal naturalists. He shared the love for animals all his life, stemming from being raised at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. There, he partook in daily duties of animal feeding and care. He quickly established himself with the Queenland's government on the process of the country's Crocodile Relocation Program, in which the reptiles could be transferred and relocated to proper localties in the most absolute humane, non-tranquilizing manner. He frequently implements the non-tranquilizing factor in his televison show The Crocodile Hunter's Croc Files (1999). Steve married fellow naturalist, Terri Irwin (Baines) in 1992. She joined him in his adventures and efforts in almost every episode of his show. They had one daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin, who was born July 24, 1998. He died in September 2006 following an attack by a stingray, off the Great Barrier Reef.- Actor
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The British character actor Laurence Naismith was a Merchant Marine seaman before becoming an actor. He made his London stage debut in 1927 in the chorus of the musical "Oh, Boy." Three years later, he joined the Bristol Repertory and remained with them until the outbreak of World War II. After serving nine years in the Royal Artillery (with the final rank of Acting Battery Commander), Naismith returned to the stage and also made his film debut. His seafaring background came in handy in a number of film roles, including the steamboat captain in Mogambo (1953), Dr. Hawkins in Boy on a Dolphin (1957), the captain of the Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958), and the First Sea Lord in Sink the Bismarck! (1960). Naismith also made numerous television appearances, including the recurring roles of Judge Fulton on The Persuaders! (1971) and Father Harris on Oh, Father! (1973).- Ray Barrett studied music and elocution and began acting at the age of eleven. He was the first actor put under contract by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Drama section. He worked for several years on radio in Sydney, before working successfully in Britain between 1958 and the mid-1970s, when he returned to Australia. He has received two AFI (Australian Film Industry) awards as an actor.
- Bertrand Cadart was born on 30 April 1948 in Amiens, Somme, France. He was an actor, known for Mad Max (1979), Bolivian Kiss (2012) and Beyond the Wasteland (2022). He died on 10 April 2020 in Caloundra, Queensland, Australia.
- Judith McGrath was an Australian TV actress who was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland and she was most known for her roles in Australian TV Drama Prisoner (1979) as acidic and sarcastic officer Colleen 'Po Face' Powell where she stayed for until the 1984 season before moving on and working extensively in the Australian Theatre Company before her next big role in Australian romance/medical drama A Country Practice (1981) and then working several years later in one of Australia's most beloved TV dramas All Saints (1998) which ran for 12 years and earned McGrath a logie nomination for best actress, during the series 493 episodes McGrath only missed one episode.
McGrath retired from acting in 2012 after her final on-screen role on the TV drama Winners & Losers (2011) and lived quietly until her death in 2017. McGrath died in 2017 aged 70 after a battle with lung cancer. - Actor
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Terence Cooper was born on 5 July 1933 in Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Casino Royale (1967), No Way Out (1987) and The Buccaneers (1956). He was married to Julie and Lyn. He died on 16 September 1997 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.- Actor
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Max Bygraves was born on 16 October 1922 in Rotherhithe, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Look Who's Talking (1989), Charley Moon (1956) and Spare the Rod (1961). He was married to Blossom Murray. He died on 31 August 2012 in Hope Island, Queensland, Australia.- Director
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Mark Toia was a director and writer, known for Monsters of Man (2020), UFO Man and The last Yowie. He died on 23 October 2023 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.- Actor
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Graham Webb was born on 19 April 1936 in Parramatta, Australia. He was an actor and producer, known for Sound Unlimited (1975), Hamlet (1959) and Blind Date (1967). He died on 26 April 2024 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.- Actor
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Best known in Australia as Detective Peter Barnes (1967-73) in the long running police drama Homicide (1964). He later appeared in Cop Shop (1977) and began to make a name for himself in local and international movies before suffering the first of the strokes that would eventually kill him in the mid-1980s. He was confined to a wheelchair for the last four years of his life. He and his wife Lenice Reed were married for 28 years, having met on the set of Homicide.- Producer
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John D. Lamond was born in 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a producer and director, known for Stage Fright (1980), North of Chiang Mai (1992) and Felicity (1978). He was married to Diane and Jean. He died on 24 October 2018 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.- Actor
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A Drama graduate of the University of Queensland, Bille Brown is a well-known Shakespearean actor. He began with the Queensland Theatre Company and, later, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Strathford and London. While with the RSC, he was one of its few commissioned writers.
Bille Brown AM has been recognised twice in the Australian Honours System. On 1 January 2001 he was granted the Centenary Medal "for distinguished service to the arts" and on 26 January 2011, Bille was named as a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the performing arts as an actor and playwright, and to education". The latter honour is denoted by the post-nominal "AM" after his name.- Actress
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Lorrae Desmond was born on 2 October 1929 in Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for A Country Practice (1981), Stock Car (1955) and Number 96 (1972). She was married to Alex Gorshenin. She died on 23 May 2021 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.- Ralph Cotterill was born in 1932 in Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Proposition (2005), Howling III (1987) and The Last Bastion (1984). He died on 7 May 2023 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
- Carol Burns was born on 29 October 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was an actress, known for Prisoner (1979), The Mango Tree (1977) and Tracks (2013). She was married to Alan Lawrence. She died on 22 December 2015 in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Syd Heylen was born on 25 May 1922 in Renmark, South Australia, Australia. He was an actor, known for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), A Country Practice (1981) and Stir (1980). He was married to Patti Brillain. He died on 4 December 1996 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Ralph Smart was born to Australian parents in the London suburb of Chingford, some ten miles northeast of Charing Cross. He began his professional career in films as an editor, writer and director of documentary shorts in 1927. Smart collaborated on the screenplays of some of Michael Balcon's early films at Gaumont-British, before moving 'down under' to make propaganda films and documentaries for the Australian government during the Second World War. After the war, he worked as producer or producer/director on two seminal films shot by Ealing in Australia: The Overlanders (1946) and Bush Christmas (1947). From the mid-1950's, he was active again in Britain, affiliated with ITC as writer/producer/director of several popular TV period adventures, notably The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955), The Buccaneers (1956) and William Tell (1958). His best known contribution came about in the 1960's, when he created the action series Danger Man (1960) and its incorruptible lone wolf protagonist John Drake, played brilliantly by Patrick McGoohan. After the show was cancelled in 1966, Smart returned to working as a freelance screenwriter on the short-lived Australian-based series Riptide (1969), starring American actor Ty Hardin. Smart settled down in Bowen, Queensland, where the show was filmed and died there in February 2001 at the venerable age of 92.- Tui Bow was born on 19 October 1906 in Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand. She was an actress, known for Frenchman's Farm (1987), Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926) and The Irishman (1978). She was married to Robert Bow. She died on 25 March 1993 in Alderley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Ellen Bang was born on 16 May 1906 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das himmelblaue Abendkleid (1941), Die Stimme aus dem Äther (1939) and Maiden vs. Monk (1934). She died on 8 November 1981 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- Kylie Jaye was born on 5 May 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for BeastMaster (1999), The Aquanauts (1999) and Oxygen's 25iest: Bad Girls Gone Good (2008). She died on 6 April 2021 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- An Australian character actor, director and producer who emigrated to Australia from his native England in 1950. Quitting his job as a publicity officer, he became a professional actor in 1968. He was best known for his soap opera television roles, but also appeared in film and numerous theatre productions. He was known for his villainous roles, once remarking that this was due to his bald head (he had been totally bald since the age of 25). He had many guest roles on television series; mini-series and telemovies; and films.
He was conscripted to Her Majesty's Royal Navy in 1943 at the age of eighteen years and spent the later years of World War II serving on a minesweeper. His ship was involved in the D-Day operation and he watched the action from just off the Arromanches beach. In October 1950 he arrived in Melbourne Australia under the £10 assisted passage emigration scheme. In December 1975 he took Australian Citizenship.
By 1953 he was taking on leading parts with the Little Theatre Company in Melbourne and as well as acting he was producing and directing difficult plays such as Chekhov and Ibsen. In 1963 he moved to Brisbane and he joined the Queensland Arts Theatre. He continued his acting career in his spare time. In the 1960s he was campaigning in Brisbane for a new permanent arts centre and was involved in these plans which resulted in the Arts Complex being built.
In 1970 he was in It's a Rum Do and had the role of Samuel Marsden, the priest who was partly responsible for bringing merino sheep to Australia which started the wool industry. The play was chosen to be given a Royal Command Performance in the Brisbane Arts Centre. ]He was presented to the Queen and he told her that over the past two years he had played eight priests. She asked him "Why" and she smiled when he answered "It was my purity of spirit and a bald head". After this, his acting career took off.
In the 1970s he became famous playing the recurring role of slimy Town Clerk Eddie Buchanan in soap opera Number 96, and later Dr. Vincent Snape in The Young Doctors. He was also known for his long running itinerant role as devious town councillor Alfred Muldoon from 1982-1992 in the soap opera A Country Practice. He also acted in the film Street Fighter.
In 1990, he appeared as Mr. Gordian in Bloodmoon, a horror film. - Barry Sheene was born on 11 September 1950 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Space Riders (1984), Joey Dunlop 1952-2000 (1997) and Neighbours (1985). He was married to Stephanie McLean. He died on 10 March 2003 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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John Dingwall was born on 19 July 1940 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He was a writer and director, known for Buddies (1983), Sunday Too Far Away (1975) and Phobia (1988). He died on 3 May 2004 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.- Lyn Irwin was born on 22 February 1942 in Queensland, Australia. She died on 11 February 2001 in Beerwah, Queensland, Australia.
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Guy Casaril was born on 1 November 1933 in Miramont-de-Guyenne, Lot-et-Garonne, France. He was a director and writer, known for Astragal (1968), Le rempart des Béguines (1972) and Les novices (1970). He died on 3 May 1996 in Chapel Hill, Queensland, Australia.- Alan Edwards was born on 17 January 1925 in the UK. He was an actor, known for The Children of the New Forest (1955), The Black Arrow (1951) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). He died on 14 January 2003 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Lucky Grills was born on 26 May 1928 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was an actor, known for Caddie (1976), Home and Away (1988) and Molly (1983). He died on 28 July 2007 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- Russ Hinze was born on 19 June 1919 in Oxenford, Queensland, Australia. He was married to Fay Jeanette McQuillan and Ruth Elizabeth Byth. He died on 29 June 1991 in Southport, Queensland, Australia.
- Jeremy Lee died on 28 April 2012 in Ravensbourne, Queensland, Australia.
- Billy J. Smith was born on 4 January 1946 in Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He died on 27 February 2019 in Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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John Dommett was born in 1946 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was an actor and producer, known for The Box (1974), Frightful Movie (1968) and Matlock Police (1971). He died on 8 January 2004 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.- Sui the Dog was born on 25 December 1988 in Australia. He was an actor, known for The Crocodile Hunter (1996). He died on 23 June 2004 in Beerwah, Queensland, Australia.
- Joy Chambers was born in 1947 in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. She was an actress, known for The Restless Years (1977), The Young Doctors (1976) and Neighbours (1985). She was married to Reg Grundy. She died on 17 September 2023 in Queensland, Australia.
- Steele Rudd was born on 14 November 1868 in Drayton, Queensland, Australia. He was a writer, known for On Our Selection (1920), Rudd's New Selection (1921) and Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995). He was married to Violet Christina Brodie. He died on 11 October 1935 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Dennis O'Rourke was born on 14 August 1945 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was a producer and director, known for Half Life (1986), Cunnamulla (2000) and The Good Woman of Bangkok (1991). He died on 15 June 2013 in Queensland, Australia.- Adam Garnett was born in 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for I Can Jump Puddles (1981), A Country Practice (1981) and Bellamy (1981). He died in April 2017 in Queensland, Australia.
- Colin McEwan was born in 1941 in Australia. He was an actor and writer, known for Kingswood Country (1980), Ryan (1973) and Bullpitt! (1997). He was married to Rae McEwan. He died on 21 August 2005 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- June Munro was born on 24 November 1917 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was an actress, known for Wild Innocence (1936) and The Broken Melody (1938). She was married to Clive Ogilvie. She died on 10 March 2013 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- Cliff Young was born on 5 May 1921 in Colac, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Prisoner (1979), The Daryl Somers Show (1982) and Parkinson in Australia (1979). He was married to Mary Howell. He died on 2 November 2003 in Beerwah, Queensland, Australia.
- Slim DeGrey was born on 20 May 1918 in Lytham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), Molly (1983) and You Can't See 'round Corners (1969). He died on 20 May 2007 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- Sister Kenny was born on 20 September 1880 in Kelly's Gully, near Warialda, New South Wales, Australia. She was a writer, known for Sister Kenny (1946), What's My Line? (1950) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). She died on 30 November 1952 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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Never comfortable in front of the camera, Chris left Blue Peter after only 21 months. He became a journalist. As a war correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon he disappeared for 18 days. In 1995 in the Balkans working for ITN as a journalist for Channel 4, he was brutally beaten up by Serb civilians protesting over Kosovan Albanians.- Gordon Chater was born on 6 April 1922 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? (1966), Snake Gully with Dad and Dave (1972) and ITV Television Playhouse (1955). He died on 12 December 1999 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Left school at 15; became commercial artist, film cartoonist, laundryman and bushworker. First novel won second prize in Australia's biggest literary contest, launching his writing career. Novel "Peter's Pence" one American Edgar Allen Poe Prize as best crime novel of 1974.- Rosemary Margan was a water skiing champion, winner of six national titles, when she started her media career as a weather presenter at Melbourne's GTV9 in the mid-1960s.
She presented the weather at Nine for almost a decade - mostly by 'drawing' the weather and temperatures from standing behind a clear perspex screen. But despite the general impression that she was drawing the temperatures backwards so that they would appear in the correct order to viewers, it was later revealed that she was drawing the numerals as normal but the picture was flipped.
Margan was also a regular hostess at the TV Week Logie Awards in the 1970s, handing out the coveted statuettes to recipients as they came on stage. She also won two Logies herself for Most Popular Female Personality In Victoria - in 1969 and 1970.
Rosemary Margan and Bert Newton at the TV Week Logie Awards, 1969.
She left Nine in 1974 to have daughter Cathy but would later continue to appear on television presenting commercials on The Graham Kennedy Show. She was inadvertently caught up in controversy when Kennedy decided to interrupt one of her commercial presentations with his imitation crow call - emulating a certain swear word and which later saw Kennedy banned from appearing on live television. Margan was not phased by Kennedy's play on words, largely because - as she admitted many years later - she was an innocent "country girl" and not familiar with the obscenity that Kennedy had snuck into TV folklore.
During the 1980s Margan continued to present television commercials and appear on shows like Beauty And The Beast, before moving on to radio. She presented live read commercials on 3AW's morning show hosted by her brother-in-law Neil Mitchell. It was a role that she conducted for nearly 20 years before retiring in 2007 and moving to the Gold Coast.
Rosemary Margan died from Cancer on 6 December 2017 and is survived by husband Ross Mitchell, and daughter Cathy Godbold from a previous marriage. - Jack Seccombe was born on 19 January 1919 in Australia. He was married to Norah Seccombe. He died on 5 October 2006 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Henry Murdoch was born on 12 September 1920 in Murgon, Queensland, Australia. He was an actor, known for Bitter Springs (1950), Dust in the Sun (1958) and Return of the Plainsman (1953). He died on 24 April 1987 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
- Wason Byers was born on 31 March 1890 in Herberton, Queensland, Australia. He was an actor, known for Jedda the Uncivilized (1955). He died on 16 June 1974 in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia.
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Three-time Formula 1 World Champion Jack Brabham had a long and fruitful career in racing. The Australian native won numerous titles in his home country before taking on the world. After Brabham entered the prestigious Formula 1 series, he raced for the Cooper Car Co., who provided him with his first two World Championships in 1959 & 1960. After a short stint with Lotus, he designed and built his own car, Brabham, taking it to Indianapolis in 1961 and creating a sensation as the first rear-engined racer there. He won his third and final championship in 1966 with his own car, the Brabham BT19 & BT20. He retired in 1970 with 14 wins, 13 poles in more than 125 starts.