Tricky all right.  Hope some-one else can get him.

Well there is a list of clues and you could joke that he was born in a Casino

Well not born in a Casino but born in Casino. Have you Googled John's clues?

You've got ot BG over to you. He is an internationally recognised Australian Author and has written many books including the ones in John's clues "Close your Eyes", "The Other Wife", "Watching You", "The Secrets She Keeps" and "Say You're Sorry".

Michael Robotham (born 9 November 1960) is an Australian-born, internationally published crime fiction writer. His eldest daughter is the ARIA and APRA Award winning songwriter, producer and musician Alex Hope.

Michael Robotham was born in Casino, New South Wales, and went to school in Gundagai and Coffs Harbour. In February 1979 he began a journalism cadetship on the Sydney afternoon newspaper The Sun and later worked for The Sydney Morning Herald as a court reporter and police roundsman.

In 1986, he left Australia and went to London, where he worked as a reporter and sub-editor for various UK national newspapers before becoming a staff feature writer on The Mail on Sunday in 1989. As a senior feature writer for the UKs Mail on Sunday As a feature writer, Michael was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He also gained access to Stalins Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled. The archives also revealed secrets about Rasputin and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Michael rose to become deputy features editor of The Mail on Sunday before resigning in May 1993 and accepting freelancing contracts with a number of British newspapers and magazines. In November 1993 he accepted his first ghostwriting commission, helping Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys to pen her autobiography, 'Empty Cradles'. Published in 1994, it told the story of how she uncovered the truth behind Britain's Child Migrant Program which saw more than 100,000 children sent abroad between 1850 and 1967 and established the Child Migrant Trust to reunite children with their families. In 2011 'Empty Cradles' became the basis of the film 'Oranges and Sunshine' directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson as Margaret Humphreys and Hugo Weaving and David Wenham as two of the child migrants.

Michael went on to collaborate on fifteen "autobiographies" for people in the arts, politics, the military and sport. Twelve of these titles became Sunday Times bestsellers and sold more than 2 million copies. These books included the autobiographies of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, British comedy actor Ricky Tomlinson and sixties musical legend Lulu.

In 1996 Michael returned to Australia with his family and continued writing full-time. In 2002, a partial manuscript of his first novel, The Suspect, became the subject of a bidding war at the London Book Fair. It was later translated into 24 languages and sold over a million copies around the world. His books have since won, or been shortlisted for, numerous awards including the UK Gold Dagger and US Edgar Award

Four of Michael's 'Joe O'Loughlin novels' have been turned into TV movies in Germany, and an English-language TV series is in development. His standalone novels 'Life or Death' and 'The Secret She Keeps' have also been optioned for film and TV projects in the US and UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robotham

Sally Field. 

Thanks BG.  This will be easy.

Cheers,

Sheba.

OK Sandy.   If it's not gone at about 7PM, I'll put up another one.

Kirk Douglas

Thanks Sheba. Now who is this fella? I have a vague recollection that he survived being shot through the mouth (I think through his cheeks)

G'day Sandy. Dead easy. Australian Politician. Arthur Calwell.

Cheers.

Thanks Sandy.  Haven't got any really difficult ones yet, but try this one.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Gday...

Interesting for sure Sheba ... ya'd think they'd been blowin' a change so it was alright for his mama when that hard rain falls.

Cheers - John

Your turn Sandy.

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and artist who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became a reluctant "voice of a generation"^[2] with songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" which became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. In 1965, he controversially "went electric", branching out from his earlier work and alienating some fans of the American folk music revival, recording a six-minute single, "Like a Rolling Stone," which enlarged the scope of popular music.

Dylan's lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop-music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. In his recording career, Dylan has explored many of the traditions in American songfrom folk, blues, and country to gospel, and rock and roll, and from rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and the Great American Songbook. Dylan performs on guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed "the Never Ending Tour." His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his songwriting is considered his greatest contribution.

Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which mainly consisted of traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of the 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, featuring "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex composition "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," alongside several other enduring songs of the era. For many of these songs he adapted the tunes and sometimes phraseology of older folk songs. Dylan went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan encountered controversy when he adopted the use of electrically amplified rock instrumentation and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

In July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after being injured in a motorcycle accident. During this period he recorded a large body of songs with members of the Band, who had previously backed Dylan on tour; these were eventually released as the collaborative album The Basement Tapes in 1975. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dylan explored country music and rural themes in John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and New Morning. In 1975 Dylan released the album Blood on the Tracks, which many saw as a return to form, followed by the critically and commercially successful Desire the following year. In the late 1970s, Dylan became a born-again Christian and released a series of albums of contemporary gospel music, such as Slow Train Coming, before returning to his more familiar rock-based idiom

G'day Sandy. That face looks like it belongs to every young boys dream girl of the time. Annette Funicello.

Cheers.