Acting

Don Crosby

Born October 29, 1924 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Died December 3, 1985 · aged 61

Don Crosby (29 October 1924 – 3 December 1985) was one of Australia's most distinguished actors, with a career spanning stage, radio, television and film. He urged the use of Australian actors where possible and spoke out against cuts in ABC funding. In 1980 he was awarded an OAM, and in 1985 he received the Australian Film Institute's Raymond Longford award for services to the industry. He was pr…

Known For

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith · 1978

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

MovieCrimeDrama

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

The Picture Show Man

The Picture Show Man · 1977

The Picture Show Man

MovieComedyDrama

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

Newsfront

Newsfront · 1978

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.

Billy and Percy

Billy and Percy · 1974

Billy and Percy

Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries.

Hancock Down Under

Hancock Down Under · 1972

Hancock Down Under

Hancock, (who was voted Britain's best-ever comic 35 years after his death) leaves his home in Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, England for warmer, more challenging climes. He encounters the Australian natives on his terms having dragged his attitudes with him halfway across the world.

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo · 1968

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.

Barrier Reef

Barrier Reef · 1971

Barrier Reef was an Australian television series that was first screened in 1971. Barrier Reef centred around a group of marine biologists on board a ship called the New Endeavour, researching around the Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, Australia. "It was the first series in the world to feature extensive colour underwater filming on location". It was also a unique location for a TV show. The Great Barrier Reef is "The only living organic collective visible from Earth's orbit."

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith · 1978

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

MovieCrimeDrama

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

Jack Newby

The Picture Show Man

The Picture Show Man · 1977

The Picture Show Man

MovieComedyDrama

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

Major Lockhart

Newsfront

Newsfront · 1978

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.

A.G. Marwood

Billy and Percy

Billy and Percy · 1974

Billy and Percy

Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries.

Hancock Down Under

Hancock Down Under · 1972

Hancock Down Under

Hancock, (who was voted Britain's best-ever comic 35 years after his death) leaves his home in Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, England for warmer, more challenging climes. He encounters the Australian natives on his terms having dragged his attitudes with him halfway across the world.

Mervyn

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo · 1968

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.

Snapes

Barrier Reef

Barrier Reef · 1971

Barrier Reef was an Australian television series that was first screened in 1971. Barrier Reef centred around a group of marine biologists on board a ship called the New Endeavour, researching around the Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, Australia. "It was the first series in the world to feature extensive colour underwater filming on location". It was also a unique location for a TV show. The Great Barrier Reef is "The only living organic collective visible from Earth's orbit."

Dave McPhie