WHO IS THIS

Ineedabiggerboat · Guru

RE: WHO IS THIS

Ineedabiggerboat · Guru

Tommy Hanlon Jr

watsea · Guru

Correct small boatman , it is Tommy Hanlon Jr.

Does you remember his wingman, Jack Little, on the show It Could Be You? Jack went onto commentating wrestling, and Tommy to his circus.

Who do you have for us?

Tommy Hanlon Jr bio:

Tommy Hanlon Jr. (14 August 1923 11 October 2003) was an American-born actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster. He was notable for his career in Australia after emigrating there in 1959, where he became a Gold Logie-award-winning media personality in 1962.^[1] Hanlon was notable for his early television appearances on daytime television and as a host of the Australian version of United States game show It Could Be You.^[2]

Early life

He was born Tommy Gene Thomason in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1923, to vaudeville performers Homer Emmons Thomason (whose stage name was "Tommy Hanlon") and Ruth Dorothy Manning. He appeared in his parents' act at the age of four, and later took the stage name Tommy Hanlon Jr. after his father's stage name.

Professional career

Hanlon first appeared on his own as a magician as a teenager and was an entertainer for the rest of his life. After two years with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in Los Angeles in the 1940s, and appearing on stage alongside W.C. Fields, he came to Australia in 1959, first as a club act, then appearing on television.^[3]

Hanlon became a major TV celebrity in Australia in the early 1960s, especially as host of the popular daytime program "It Could Be You" on the Nine Network, operating out of the GTV-9 studios in Melbourne. The program was a mixture of game show, human interest and humour. It featured tearful reunions of long separated families or friends. He typically closed each program sitting on a stool with a social commentary presented as a Letter from Mom.

After GTV-9 purchased radio station 3AK in April 1961, all GTV-9 personalities were expected to present programs on the new acquisition. Hanlon hosted a Saturday morning show with Jack Little as his sidekick.

Awards

Award	Association	Year	Work	Result
Gold Logie	Logie Awards	1962		Won^[4]
Special Award	Logie Awards	1963	It Could Be You	Won^[5]

He won two Logie awards, including the Gold Logie in 1962, opposite Australian entertainer Lorrae Desmond, and became one of the highest-paid entertainers in Australia.

Circus career

In 1967, he bought into Ashton's Circus.^[6] In the 1970s, he hosted talent show Pot of Gold, with resident judge Bernard King who mocked most entrants mercilessly, to the consternation of the more kind-hearted Hanlon. Hanlon quit television in 1978 and toured Australia as a ringmaster with Silvers Circus.

Personal life

He was honoured in an episode of This is Your Life filmed in August 2003.

Hanlon died from cancer in Melbourne on 11 October 2003, only weeks after suffering a heart attack. He was predeceased by his wife, Muriel (whom he always called Murphy), and survived by his daughter April Bell from that marriage and her son Jeff Almond. He was also survived by his first wife, Jean Gregory, his son by that marriage, Tommy Hanlon Thomason, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Despite his love for Australia, he never relinquished his United States citizenship.

-- Edited by watsea on Wednesday 25th of March 2026 09:02:57 PM

-- Edited by watsea on Thursday 26th of March 2026 03:10:54 PM

watsea · Guru

Your turn Inabiggerboat, have you missed the post?

Ineedabiggerboat · Guru

No problem, you can have another shot

watsea · Guru

Ok, I can do another candidate.

Who is this lady? She is not wearing clothes how she often appears doing her skills.

Ineedabiggerboat · Guru

Looks like a swimmer to me

watsea · Guru

Sorry, not a swimmer.
She was born in the Australian Sunshine State.

Dick0 · Guru

I suspect this one probably likes to play with balls and is known to hold a shaft like a Pro.

-- Edited by Dick0 on Tuesday 31st of March 2026 10:05:19 AM

watsea · Guru

DickO is providing an excellent clue.

watsea · Guru

Time for another clue, remembering the clue from DickO too.

She is good at her activities, so her walks are not spoiled.

67HR · Senior Member

Is it Jan Stephenson

watsea · Guru

67HR,
You have zoomed in to the correct sport, but the lady is not Jan. Try some other Australian female golfers.

Ineedabiggerboat · Guru

Would it be Stephanie Kyriacou

watsea · Guru

Sorry, not Stephanie.
The photo lady was born earlier.

67HR · Senior Member

Is it Ithink Karie Webb.

watsea · Guru

Correct Trevor 67HR, it is Karrie Webb.

I suppose that you will have another person for us, over to you.

Karrie Webbs bio:

Karrie Anne Webb AO (born 21 December 1974) is an Australian professional golfer. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and also turns out once or twice a year on the ALPG Tour in her home country. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. She has 41 wins on the LPGA Tour, more than any other active player.

Early life and amateur career

Karrie Webb was born in Ayr, Queensland. She was a member of the Australian Amateur team, making six international appearances from 1992 to 1994, including a 1994 appearance in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships.^[2]This was the year she became the Australian Stroke Play Champion^[3]

Professional career

Webb began her professional golfing career in 1994 playing on the Ladies European Tour, where she finished second at the Women's Australian Open,^[3] and the Futures Tour in the U.S., where she won one tournament.^[4] In 1995 she became the youngest ever winner of the Weetabix Women's British Open in her rookie season in Europe,^[3]prior to it being classed as an LPGA major, and was European Rookie of the Year.

She qualified for the LPGA Tour after she finished second at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, despite playing with a broken bone in her wrist.^[4]

In 1996 Webb won her first LPGA tournament in her second LPGA start at the HealthSouth Inaugural, on the fourth hole of a sudden death playoff. She won three other tournaments and became the first LPGA player to win $1 million mark in a single season, topping the year end money list.^[5] She was also the 1996 LPGA Rookie of the Year.^[4]

In 1997 Webb won three times on the LPGA Tour including another win at the Weetabix Women's British Open, won her first Vare Trophy^[6] and was voted 1997 ESPY Best Female Golfer.^[7] In 1999 Webb won her first major championship at the du Maurier Ltd. Classic and won her first LPGA Tour Player of the Year award.^[8]

Webb also took part in the largest playoff in LPGA Tour history at the 1999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic.^[9] Se Ri Pak birdied the first sudden death playoff hole to defeat Webb, Mardi Lunn, Carin Koch, Sherri Steinhauer, and Kelli Kuehne.^[10]

In 2000, Webb won two more major championships, following up her win at the Nabisco Championship with a win at the U.S. Women's Open. This gained her a second consecutive Rolex Player of the Year title and Vare Trophy, and she topped the money list, missing out on a chance to become the LPGA's first single-season $2 million winner by taking a mid season break to return home to Australia to run with the Olympic torch.^[11] Teamed with Rachel Hetherington representing Australia she won the Women's World Cup in Malaysia,^[12] was awarded the preeminent sport award in Australia, the Dawn Fraser Award.^[13] and was named Female Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America.^[14]

She successfully defended her U.S. Women's Open title in 2001 and won the LPGA Championship, to become the youngest winner of the LPGA Career Grand Slam.^[15] She teamed with David Duval to play against Annika Sörenstam and Tiger Woods in a made-for-TV Battle at Bighorn between the two best male and two best female players in the world. At the time, it provided women's golf its largest audience ever.^[16] Webb's win at the 2002 Women's British Open, which had become an LPGA major in 2001, meant she completed a Super Career Grand Slam every available major championship in women's golf in her career.^[17]

Webb then suffered a three-year slump. She collected just two LPGA wins in the next two years, and in 2005 had a best LPGA finish of tied sixth^[18] although she did team up with Rachel Hetherington to represent Australia at the Women's World Cup of Golf^[19] and won her fifth ANZ Ladies Masters title back home in Australia.^[20]

Webb qualified for entry to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000, but was not eligible for induction until she had played ten LPGA Tour events in each of ten seasons. She met this criterion on 9 June 2005 when she completed the first round of the LPGA Championship.^[21] At age 30, she became the youngest living person ever to enter the Hall of Fame,^[15] and kept that distinction until 2007, when fellow LPGA star Se Ri Pak was inducted.

Webb staged a comeback season in 2006. In the final round at the Kraft Nabisco Championship she holed a 116-yard shot from the fairway to eagle the 18th hole, and then birdied the same hole in a sudden-death playoff to beat Lorena Ochoaand win her second Kraft Nabisco Championship.^[22] She won four other tournaments including the Evian Masters^[23] and Mizuno Classic.^[24] Her 2006 Kraft Nabisco win took her into the top ten of the Women's World Golf Rankings for the first time since they were introduced in February 2006.

Her 41 LPGA Tour victories places her tied for 10th with Babe Zaharias on the list of players with the most career LPGA tournament wins^[25] and first among all active players.

Honours

Webb was awarded the Centenary Medal on 1 January 2001.^[50]

On 26 January 2010 Webb was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to golf, and to the community as a benefactor and supporter of a range of health and disability organisations.^[51]

In January 2018 Webb was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to golf at the elite level as a player, to the development of female golfers, as a mentor and role model, and through charitable and community organisations".^[52]

In 2022, she was inducted into Sport Australia Hall of Fame.^[53]

67HR · Senior Member

Thanks Ted, just comng out the other side of a reverse shoulder replacement.

Give me 12 hrs or so.

Big Gorilla · Guru

Time for another photo: Who is this guy ?

watsea · Guru

Any clues please.
Might be a lightweight boxer with his bare small athletic frame?

Ineedabiggerboat · Guru

Looks like a young frank sinatra

Big Gorilla · Guru

Not Frankie !!! He enjoys a good fight !!

Dick0 · Guru

This was a good one BG.

I am thinking it may be the Australian bantamweight boxer, Jimmy Carruthers.

Big Gorilla · Guru

Jimmy Carruthers it is Dicko. Over to you :

James William Carruthers (5 July 1929 15 August 1990) was an Australian boxer, who became the Undisputed Bantamweight World Champion in 1952.

Jimmy was the 2009 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Veterans category.

Amateur career

Carruthers's boxing career started as an Australian representative at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In his first-round match of the bantamweight competition, he fought Fred Daigle of Canada and won on points. He defeated Arnoldo Parés of Argentina in his second match. However, he had sustained an eye injury during his bout with Parés, and had to withdraw from the quarter-final match with the eventual gold medalist Tibor Csík of Hungary.^[1]

Dick0 · Guru

Here is one that may entertain you.

watsea · Guru

I remember that face, but who? Aussie or Yank?
Any clues?

Dick0 · Guru

watsea wrote:
I remember that face, but who? Aussie or Yank?
Any clues?

Australian, born in NSW.

watsea · Guru

I think it is George Stephenson Wallace, an Aussie comedian.

Dick0 · Guru

watsea wrote:
I think it is George Stephenson Wallace, an Aussie comedian.

Yes, it is & well done. Over to you.

I tried a couple of times to upload the BIO, however, the Forum does not accept the text, for reasons unknown.

watsea · Guru

After the information was that he was an Aussie, I thought about the George Wallace that I used to watch on BTQ 7 Theatre Royal, though I knew he did not look quite the same. Google informed me, with a pic, of the George Stephenson Wallace. I had seen that George too somewhere.

So, someone else now?

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