Andrew Prowse was an Australian editor, writer and director of film and television. [1] He was nominated for Best Editing at the 1986 AFI Awards for Playing Beatie Bow . Prowse was also co-producer of the 2014 telemovie INXS: Never Tear Us Apart .
Prowse died in December 2018. [2]
Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat (1951–1970), which also spawned a book series (1962–1982).
David Charles Prowse is an English retired bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television. Worldwide, he is best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, and in 2015 starred in a documentary concerning that role, entitled I Am Your Father. Prior to his role as Vader, Prowse had established himself as a prominent figure in British culture as the first Green Cross Code man, a character used in British road safety advertising aimed at children.
Sylvia May Laura Syms, is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974). In 2006 she portrayed the role of The Queen Mother in the Stephen Frears movie The Queen, about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the few days after that, leading up to the funeral. She remains active in films, television and theatre.
Juliet Anne Prowse was a dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film. She was raised in South Africa, where her family emigrated after World War II. Known for her attractive legs, she was described after her death as having "... arguably the best legs since Betty Grable."
Peter Phelps is an Australian actor, singer and writer. He is notable for his role as Peter Church in the television drama Stingers, and as Trevor Cole in Baywatch. Phelps has appeared in feature films including Point Break with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and Blackwater Trail with Judd Nelson. He is the brother of Professor Kerryn Phelps.
Laurance Rudic is a British theatre artist best known for his long association as a leading member of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre company - 1972-1996.
Heinrich Schiff was an Austrian cellist and conductor.
Don Barker is an Australian actor, best known for his roles as Det. Sgt. Harry White in the police procedural series Homicide, and briefly the original character of social worker Bill Jackson in prison drama Prisoner.
Imogen Annesley is an Australian actress and director who is perhaps best known for her performances in the films Playing Beatie Bow, Howling III: The Marsupials and Queen of the Damned.
Playing Beatie Bow is an Australian children's book written by Ruth Park and first published on 31 January 1980. It features a time slip in Sydney, Australia.
Nicola Vicars Coghill is an Australian actress. She is best known for playing the roles of Sister Jackie Crane in The Flying Doctors, and Miranda Parker in Neighbours.
David Christopher Richards, best known as Christopher Richards is a Canadian playwright, theatre designer and casting director.
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer. He has received critical praise for his work on films including Shine, Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Romulus, My Father (2007). He has won Australian Film Institute awards for Best Cinematography for The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988), Shine and Oscar and Lucinda.
Donald Charles Crombie is an Australian film and television director and screenwriter.
Mouche Phillips is an Australian actress, voice actress and theatre producer, best known for her television roles as Aviva "Viv" Newton in Home and Away (1989–90) and Eva Sykes in police procedural series Water Rats (2000–01).
Playing Beatie Bow is a 1986 Australian time travel drama film. It is directed by Donald Crombie and stars Imogen Annesley, Peter Phelps and Mouche Phillips. The screenplay by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Ruth Park.
Edwin Hodgeman is an Australian actor. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He is known for playing Dr Dealgood in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in (1985).
Theodore P. Savas is an attorney, former adjunct college instructor, award-winning author, publishing consultant and agent, and majority partner and managing director of Savas Beatie LLC, a Nevada limited liability company. He specializes in military history in general, and the American Civil War, American Revolutionary War, and WWII German U-boats.
James Michael Edward Ward-Prowse is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Southampton and the England national team.
Andrew Frederick Buckland is a South African award-winning playwright, performer, film director, mime, performer and academic.
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