You got him Sandy. Good to see you participating again. Who do you have for us ?
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles CollinsLVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins achieved three UK and seven US number one singles as a solo artist. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career are totalled, he was responsible for more US top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s.[7] His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down".
Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at five and completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child actor, with his first major role at 13 as the Artful Dodger in the West End musical Oliver!. He then pursued a musical career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing the albums Face Value (1981), Hello, I Must Be Going (1982), No Jacket Required (1985) and ...But Seriously (1989)
No takers? Our man first appeared in radio and later moved to Britain as an actor and then returned to Australia to continue acting.
watsea said
08:16 PM Jul 7, 2023
Ah, yeah, remember the face but not his name.
I recall his appearances in a Aussie police/crime series, probably a Crawford Production.
sandman55 said
11:38 PM Jul 7, 2023
watsea wrote:
Ah, yeah, remember the face but not his name. I recall his appearances in a Aussie police/crime series, probably a Crawford Production.
I seem to remember him in a cop TV series but haven't found it. He acted in a 1979 Australian-British mini series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia to begin a new life and becomes involved in the fortunes of an abandoned gold mine. He has done a lot of acting in Britain and Australia.
watsea said
01:58 PM Jul 8, 2023
Sandy, A hint there, thank you. I reckon that the gent is Ray Barrett.
sandman55 said
05:28 PM Jul 8, 2023
You're on the money watsea over to you for a pic.
Raymond Charles Barrett (2 May 1927 8 September 2009) was an Australian actor. During the 1960s, he was a leading actor on British television, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters (19651971). From the 1970s, he appeared in lead and character roles in Australian films and television series.
Ray Barrett first appeared on radio in Brisbane, and later in Sydney, to where he moved in 1954. In 1957, he moved to Britain, where his background as a singer earned him a part in a revue alongside Beryl Reid, Patrick Wymark and Sheila Han****.[3]
Owing to his supposedly tough look, Barrett was given character and tough guy roles from an unusually young age. In Britain, he played one of the lead roles in the TV series Emergency Ward 10 and later one of the main characters, the hard-nosed oil worker Peter Thornton, in the long-running BBC series The Troubleshooters.[3]
While Barrett mostly appeared in television but also made several films including Hammer's The Reptile (1966).[4]
Another hint.
She is well known in Australian TV shows.
watsea said
07:48 PM Jul 10, 2023
Hint number 3. May not help everyone though.
She had an early start on TV. I remember her being on Brisbane's BTQ7 "Theatre Royal" in the early 1960's. I was pretty young.
She went on to do many things in TV.
sandman55 said
09:53 PM Jul 10, 2023
Is she a young Nancy Knudsen
watsea said
10:35 PM Jul 10, 2023
sandman55 wrote:
Is she a young Nancy Knudsen
Wow. That is a name from Australia's past TV. Unfortunately, this lady is not Nancy Knudsen. Sorry Sandy.
The TV star has not been seen with long dark hair for many years.
watsea said
01:10 PM Jul 11, 2023
Another clue. Maybe a strong one for some people.
She was a "rat" for a while.
sandman55 said
08:55 PM Jul 11, 2023
OK, try again with that clue, is she a young Rowena Wallace
watsea said
11:09 PM Jul 11, 2023
Sandy,
Correct. It is Rowena Wallace. I thought the clue regarding a "rat" might bring out someone who remembered "Pat the Rat".
I guess you will have another person for us.
Here is bio for Rowena Wallace.
Rowena Wallace was born (born 23 August 1947) in Coventry, West Midlands, England, as an only child. She moved to Australia with her parents when she was five, settling in the state of Queensland. Her father was a pilot for Ansett Airlines. Initially she grew up in Cairns and later moved to Brisbane at the age of 12 years. There, she attended Kedron State High School. After finishing school she became interested in acting and was taken by her mother to dancing lessons at, and was also persuaded to join, the Twelfth Night Theatre under the artistic direction of Joan Whalley.
At age fifteen, having left school and attended a business college at the insistence of her parents, Wallace decided to become an actress. She joined an advertising agency while still performing in the theatre at night. Her first television role was in Brisbane as an entertainer on the variety show Theatre Royal hosted by George Wallace Jnr (no relation). She also presented the afternoon news and weather and a children's show. At the age of nineteen, Wallace was diagnosed with scoliosis. She has required painkillers almost continuously since then.
She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/Morrell/Palmer in Sons and Daughters, being the first soap star to win the Gold Logie. After leaving the series and being replaced in the role by Belinda Giblin, Wallace returned in the final season as Patricia's sister Pamela Hudson.
She started her career on the small screen in the late 60's in serial You Can't See 'Round Corners as well as appearing in that serial's film version and then had regular roles in TV series including Crawford Productions Division 4, Number 96 and Cop Shop and in 1980-1981 became well known for her stint as Anne Griffin in cult series Prisoner.
After Sons and Daughters, she subsequently appeared primarily in guest roles and cameos in numerous TV serials, before again returning to more permanent fixtures in regular roles from 2000 to 2003 in Home and Away as June Reynolds, in Neighbours in 2007 as Mary Casey and in Deadly Women as gangland figure Judy Moran in 2012.
She has appeared as herself as a panellist on talk show Beauty and the Beast and featured regularly on Bert Newton's popular morning breakfast show Good Morning Australia.
No Takers? At the time of the photo she was a children's TV co host and later she got into movies
dorian said
06:07 AM Jul 13, 2023
Is she English?
sandman55 said
06:59 PM Jul 13, 2023
She has an Irish surname but as far as I know she was born in Australia. She was married to an Australian television host, comedian, variety performer, radio presenter and singer who was married 3 times. I always thought she could have done better than him but they were married for 47 years until his death.
watsea said
09:13 AM Jul 14, 2023
How about I say that it is Patti Newton (nee McGrath)?
sandman55 said
06:35 PM Jul 14, 2023
watsea wrote:
How about I say that it is Patti Newton (nee McGrath)?
No not Patti Newton. Another clue that some might get, the co host next to her that I have cropped out had the nick name "Feathers"
-- Edited by sandman55 on Friday 14th of July 2023 06:35:43 PM
sandman55 said
09:16 PM Jul 16, 2023
No takers? OK here is her co-host you might be able to work out who she is from this. I don't know what the record player is there for.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Sunday 16th of July 2023 09:18:02 PM
Glenys O'Brien, would have been pretty tough if your not an old bugger from Adelaide.
sandman55 said
07:16 PM Jul 17, 2023
You win the prize Santa. Who do you have for us. Yes I posted her some time back and I was surprised that she was a difficult one to guess. I didn't know after marrying Ernie Sigley that she went into acting. As I said before I always thought she could have done better for herself than Ernie but then I am biased I didn't think much of him.
Glenys O'Brien and Ernie Sigley were married for 47 years before Ernie Sigley died aged 82.They lived in Atkins Ave, Glen Iris in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and had four children.[22] Her son Matthew was a keyboardist for the Australian bands the Earthmen, the Fauves and Drop City.[23]
Glenys O'Brien is an actress, known for The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Thirst (1979) and Homicide (1964). She also played New Prisoner in Prisoner.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Monday 17th of July 2023 07:17:53 PM
Santa said
10:20 AM Jul 19, 2023
Tragic's will know who this is.
0.
-- Edited by Santa on Wednesday 19th of July 2023 10:28:40 AM
I'd like to tell you your right Ken, but your not.
Disregard that Ken, your correct, I stuffed up, it is Len Darling.
Leonard Stuart Darling (14 August 1909 24 June 1992) was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Test matches from 1933 to 1937.[1]
Darling once told a story of fielding on the boundary at the Sydney Cricket Ground and positioning himself to catch a big hit from Don Bradman. While the ball was still in the air, according to Darling, the crowd yelled at him to drop the catch. This occurred in Bradman's last innings for New South Wales in 1934. Darling did in fact take the catch to end Bradman's innings. Bradman was out for 128, with him hitting three sixes in the over, and getting caught while trying to hit his fourth.[citation needed]
Len Darling married his wife Phyllis ("Bobby") in 1937. They had two daughters. He served in the Australian Army with the 24th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery in World War II.[2]
-- Edited by Santa on Wednesday 19th of July 2023 06:23:32 PM
Big Gorilla said
06:34 PM Jul 19, 2023
Thanks Santa Yeah I was sure it was Len Darling, a mate of Don Bradman.
Phil Collins ?
You got him Sandy. Good to see you participating again. Who do you have for us ?
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins achieved three UK and seven US number one singles as a solo artist. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career are totalled, he was responsible for more US top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s.[7] His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down".
Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at five and completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child actor, with his first major role at 13 as the Artful Dodger in the West End musical Oliver!. He then pursued a musical career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing the albums Face Value (1981), Hello, I Must Be Going (1982), No Jacket Required (1985) and ...But Seriously (1989)
Thanks BG now who is this fella
No takers? Our man first appeared in radio and later moved to Britain as an actor and then returned to Australia to continue acting.
I recall his appearances in a Aussie police/crime series, probably a Crawford Production.
I seem to remember him in a cop TV series but haven't found it. He acted in a 1979 Australian-British mini series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia to begin a new life and becomes involved in the fortunes of an abandoned gold mine. He has done a lot of acting in Britain and Australia.
Sandy,
A hint there, thank you.
I reckon that the gent is Ray Barrett.
You're on the money watsea over to you for a pic.
Raymond Charles Barrett (2 May 1927 8 September 2009) was an Australian actor. During the 1960s, he was a leading actor on British television, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters (19651971). From the 1970s, he appeared in lead and character roles in Australian films and television series.
Acting career[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
Ray Barrett first appeared on radio in Brisbane, and later in Sydney, to where he moved in 1954. In 1957, he moved to Britain, where his background as a singer earned him a part in a revue alongside Beryl Reid, Patrick Wymark and Sheila Han****.[3]
Owing to his supposedly tough look, Barrett was given character and tough guy roles from an unusually young age. In Britain, he played one of the lead roles in the TV series Emergency Ward 10 and later one of the main characters, the hard-nosed oil worker Peter Thornton, in the long-running BBC series The Troubleshooters.[3]
While Barrett mostly appeared in television but also made several films including Hammer's The Reptile (1966).[4]
He also voiced characters in Gerry Anderson-produced "Supermarionation" series of the 1960s: Stingray (196465), as Commander Shore and Titan, and Thunderbirds (196566) as John Tracy, the Hood and various extras. Also in 1965, he appeared as Bennett/Koquillion in the Doctor Who serial The Rescue.[5]
Australia[edit]
In later years, Barrett starred in film and TV roles in his native Australia, living on Stradbroke Island, Queensland during the 1970s. He appeared as the Prime Minister (a character who is assassinated) in Burn the Butterflies, and as a miner in Golden Soak. In 1980, he played the part of the controversial Australian historical figure Governor Bligh in the ABC Television production The Timeless Land.[3] He had secondary roles in many other productions, including Something in the Air.
Barrett also appeared in such films as Don's Party and The Carmakers (about the 1973 release of the Leyland P76 car, co-starring Noel Ferrier and Nick Tate). In 2005, he received an Australian Film Institute Longford Life Achievement Award.[6]
Thanks Sandy.
Here is someone. Pretty well known to some, I think.
First one, the lady is an Aussie.
She is well known in Australian TV shows.
She had an early start on TV. I remember her being on Brisbane's BTQ7 "Theatre Royal" in the early 1960's. I was pretty young.
She went on to do many things in TV.
Is she a young Nancy Knudsen
Wow. That is a name from Australia's past TV. Unfortunately, this lady is not Nancy Knudsen. Sorry Sandy.
The TV star has not been seen with long dark hair for many years.
She was a "rat" for a while.
OK, try again with that clue, is she a young Rowena Wallace
Correct. It is Rowena Wallace. I thought the clue regarding a "rat" might bring out someone who remembered "Pat the Rat".
I guess you will have another person for us.
Here is bio for Rowena Wallace.
Rowena Wallace was born (born 23 August 1947) in Coventry, West Midlands, England, as an only child. She moved to Australia with her parents when she was five, settling in the state of Queensland. Her father was a pilot for Ansett Airlines. Initially she grew up in Cairns and later moved to Brisbane at the age of 12 years. There, she attended Kedron State High School. After finishing school she became interested in acting and was taken by her mother to dancing lessons at, and was also persuaded to join, the Twelfth Night Theatre under the artistic direction of Joan Whalley.
At age fifteen, having left school and attended a business college at the insistence of her parents, Wallace decided to become an actress. She joined an advertising agency while still performing in the theatre at night. Her first television role was in Brisbane as an entertainer on the variety show Theatre Royal hosted by George Wallace Jnr (no relation). She also presented the afternoon news and weather and a children's show. At the age of nineteen, Wallace was diagnosed with scoliosis. She has required painkillers almost continuously since then.
She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/Morrell/Palmer in Sons and Daughters, being the first soap star to win the Gold Logie. After leaving the series and being replaced in the role by Belinda Giblin, Wallace returned in the final season as Patricia's sister Pamela Hudson.
She started her career on the small screen in the late 60's in serial You Can't See 'Round Corners as well as appearing in that serial's film version and then had regular roles in TV series including Crawford Productions Division 4, Number 96 and Cop Shop and in 1980-1981 became well known for her stint as Anne Griffin in cult series Prisoner.
After Sons and Daughters, she subsequently appeared primarily in guest roles and cameos in numerous TV serials, before again returning to more permanent fixtures in regular roles from 2000 to 2003 in Home and Away as June Reynolds, in Neighbours in 2007 as Mary Casey and in Deadly Women as gangland figure Judy Moran in 2012.
She has appeared as herself as a panellist on talk show Beauty and the Beast and featured regularly on Bert Newton's popular morning breakfast show Good Morning Australia.
Thanks watsea. now who is this lady.
No Takers? At the time of the photo she was a children's TV co host and later she got into movies
She has an Irish surname but as far as I know she was born in Australia. She was married to an Australian television host, comedian, variety performer, radio presenter and singer who was married 3 times. I always thought she could have done better than him but they were married for 47 years until his death.
No not Patti Newton. Another clue that some might get, the co host next to her that I have cropped out had the nick name "Feathers"
-- Edited by sandman55 on Friday 14th of July 2023 06:35:43 PM
No takers? OK here is her co-host you might be able to work out who she is from this. I don't know what the record player is there for.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Sunday 16th of July 2023 09:18:02 PM
Glenys O'Brien, would have been pretty tough if your not an old bugger from Adelaide.
You win the prize Santa. Who do you have for us. Yes I posted her some time back and I was surprised that she was a difficult one to guess. I didn't know after marrying Ernie Sigley that she went into acting. As I said before I always thought she could have done better for herself than Ernie but then I am biased I didn't think much of him.
Glenys O'Brien and Ernie Sigley were married for 47 years before Ernie Sigley died aged 82. They lived in Atkins Ave, Glen Iris in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and had four children.[22] Her son Matthew was a keyboardist for the Australian bands the Earthmen, the Fauves and Drop City.[23]
Glenys O'Brien is an actress, known for The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Thirst (1979) and Homicide (1964). She also played New Prisoner in Prisoner.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Monday 17th of July 2023 07:17:53 PM
Tragic's will know who this is.
0.
-- Edited by Santa on Wednesday 19th of July 2023 10:28:40 AM
Cricketer Len Darling.
I'd like to tell you your right Ken, but your not.
Disregard that Ken, your correct, I stuffed up, it is Len Darling.
Leonard Stuart Darling (14 August 1909 24 June 1992) was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Test matches from 1933 to 1937.[1]
Darling once told a story of fielding on the boundary at the Sydney Cricket Ground and positioning himself to catch a big hit from Don Bradman. While the ball was still in the air, according to Darling, the crowd yelled at him to drop the catch. This occurred in Bradman's last innings for New South Wales in 1934. Darling did in fact take the catch to end Bradman's innings. Bradman was out for 128, with him hitting three sixes in the over, and getting caught while trying to hit his fourth.[citation needed]
Len Darling married his wife Phyllis ("Bobby") in 1937. They had two daughters. He served in the Australian Army with the 24th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery in World War II.[2]
-- Edited by Santa on Wednesday 19th of July 2023 06:23:32 PM
Thanks Santa Yeah I was sure it was Len Darling, a mate of Don Bradman.
Now who is this guy: