Alexander Cappelli

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Alexander (Alex) Cappelli (born 4 October 1984) is an Australian musician/actor.

Cappelli has had many acting roles on Australian television, such as a recurring guest role as Mike Pill in Neighbours ,^[1] Gretchen in the telemovie Little Oberon and a starring role as Kurt Winters in the 2001 children's television series, Short Cuts.^[1] As an actor, he is best known for his lead role in the 2005 feature film, Hating Alison Ashley.^[1] Working alongside Delta Goodrem and Saskia Burmeister, he played the character of Barry Hollis, the school bully. Other TV credits include, Wicked Science , Blue Heelers and The Brush-Off . He is also the lead singer, guitarist and pianist in the local Melbourne original rock band "The Collectibles".

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems together. Seven decided to commission the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap Sons and Daughters, which aired on the network. Although successful in Melbourne, Neighbours underperformed in the Sydney market and struggled for months before Seven cancelled it. The show was immediately bought by rival network Ten. After taking over production of the show, the new network had to build replica sets because Seven destroyed the originals to prevent its rival from obtaining them. Ten began screening Neighbours on 20 January 1986, beginning where the previous series left off and commencing with episode 171. Neighbours has since become the longest running drama series in Australian television and in 2005, it was inducted collectively into the Logie Hall of Fame.

Little Oberon, directed by Kevin Carlin, is an Australian telemovie starring Sigrid Thornton, which was broadcast on 18 September 2005 by Network Nine. The movie was filmed during 2004 in and around the town of Marysville, Victoria. The township was devastated in the February 2009 bush fires of Black Saturday. Also appearing in the telemovie were Brittany Byrnes, Tasma Walton and Peter Rowsthorn.

Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2001. The 26-episode series was aimed at teenagers. It was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Burberry Productions. The series was subsequently repeated on the youth-oriented network ABC3 in March and April 2011.

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References

1 2 3 "Alex Cappelli". Creature Features. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

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[ABC_Bio-1] 1 2 3 "Alex Cappelli". Creature Features. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2017.