Gary Day | |
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Born | Christchurch, New Zealand | 10 November 1941
Occupation(s) | Actor, writer |
Years active | 1960-2004 (as actor and playwright) [1] |
Known for | Homicide , Murder Call |
Awards | Australia Film Institute Award |
Gary Day (born 10 November 1941) is a New Zealand former actor, playwright and lighting director [1] who has appeared in Australian television police drama series, including Homicide and Murder Call .
Day worked as a male model and appeared in several television commercials. This led to guest roles in episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo , police dramas The Link Men , The Long Arm , Homicide and Matlock Police produced by Crawford Productions. This culminated in the regular role of Senior Detective Phillip Redford in Crawford's series Homicide in 1973. Redford was a university graduate who had served as a bomb disposal expert in Vietnam, and was anti-violence as a result.
Day was the only cast member who appeared in all colour episodes of Homicide until it ceased production in 1975. Following this he appeared as a regular in Crawford's soap opera The Box as Marcus Boyd in 1977.
His other regular series role was as Detective Inspector Malcolm Thorne in Murder Call in 1997–98.
Guest roles include Cop Shop , Carson's Law , Blue Heelers , Halifax f.p. , Dogs Head Bay.
He played the major supporting role of George Witton (to Terence Donovan's leading role of Harry 'Breaker' Morant) in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts , presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978. [1]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Availability |
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1960 | The Adventures of the Terrible Ten | Guest role | TV series | |
1969 | Skippy | Mitch | TV seriEd, Season 2, episode 30: Plain Jane | Available on DVD |
1970 | The Link Men | Constable | TV series, Season 1, episode 10: Somebody's Kid is Missing | Available on DVD |
1970 | The Long Arm | Detective Emerson | TV series, Season 1, episode 1: The Lion Was the First to Know | Available on DVD |
1972 | Matlock Police | Norman Henderson | TV series, Season 2, episode 45: A Perfect Gentleman | Available on DVD |
1972-77 | Homicide | Senior Detective Phil Redford / Russell Thompson | TV series, 134 episodes | Available on DVD |
1977 | The Box | Marcus Lloyd | TV series, 1 episode | |
1977-78 | Cop Shop | Lyle Scott / Philip Stedman / Simon Hutton | TV series, 11 episodes | Available on DVD |
1983 | Carson's Law | Mr. Ward | TV series, episode: Happy Families | Available on DVD |
1983 | Home | Denny | TV series, Season 1, episode 21 & 22 | |
1984 | Mortimer's Patch | John Marinovich | TV series, Season 3, episode 6: Nothing Changed | |
1984 | Inside Straight | Charles Morrison | TV series, Season 1, episode 2 | |
1986 | The Great Bookie Robbery | Coilin Reynolds | TV miniseries | Available on DVD |
1986 | The Fast Lane | Keel | TV series, Season 2, episode 9 | |
1988 | The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy | TV miniseries | ||
1989 | Mission: Impossible | Laroux | TV series, Season 1, episode 16 | |
1989 | A Country Practice | Duncan Stevenson | TV series, Season 9, episodes 15 & 16 | Available on DVD |
1990 | Come in Spinner | Nigel Carstairs | TV miniseries | Available on DVD |
1990 | Flair | Chuck | TV miniseries | Not Available |
1990 | The Great Air Race | Ray Parer | TV miniseries | |
1991 | Shark in the Park | Detective Sergeant Tyson | TV series, Season 3, episode 1 | |
1993 | Snowy | Charlie Gillespie | TV series, episodes 6 & 11 | Available on DVD |
1994-2001 | Blue Heelers | Commander Reginald Jones | TV series, Season 1, episode 8, & Season 8, episodes 27 & 28 | Available on DVD |
1995 | Blue Murder | Bill Crofton | TV miniseries | Available on DVD |
1996 | Halifax f.p. | Sergeant Mick Snow | TV series, Season 1, Episode 7:Without Consent | Available on DVD |
1996 | The Bite | Coveney | TV miniseries | |
1996 | Twisted | Lowell | TV series, Season 1, Episode 11 | |
1997–2000 | Murder Call | Detective Inspector Malcolm Thorne | TV series, 56 episodes | Available on DVD |
1999 | Dog's Head Bay | Stan Fairweather | TV series, Season 1, episode 11 | |
1999 | Stingers | Edgar Voss | TV series, Season 2, episode 22 | Available on DVD |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Availability |
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1971 | Three to Go | David (segment "Judy") | Short film | |
1972 | The Man Who Shot the Albatross | TV film | ||
1977 | Raw Deal | Tyrone Leader | Feature film | |
1977 | The Mango Tree | Constable McHendry | Feature film | |
1978 | The Night Nurse | Rick | TV film | |
1980 | The Quick Brown Fox | Paul Sharmann | ||
1980 | Departmental | |||
1980 | Nightmares | Policeman #2 | Feature film (aka Night Mares) | Available on DVD |
1980 | Going Home | Mike | Feature film | |
1982 | Duet for Four | Terry Byrne | Feature film | |
1982 | Crosstalk | Ed Ballinger | Feature film | Available on DVD |
1983 | Skin Deep | Ed Price | TV film | Available on DVD |
1984 | Death Warmed Up | Dr. Archer Howell | Feature film | Available on DVD |
1985 | Glass Babies | Brendan Keller | TV film | Available on DVD |
1985 | Natural Causes | Warren | TV film | |
1985 | Hanging Together | Craig | Feature film | |
1986 | Body Business | Nick Christopher | TV miniseries | |
1987 | The Surfer (aka Death Wave) | Sam Barlow | Feature film | |
1987 | Hard Knuckle | Topdog | TV film | |
1989 | A Sting in the Tale | Barry Robbins | Feature film | |
1990 | Harbour Beat | Gavin Walker | Miniseries | |
1990 | Jigsaw | Gordon Carroll | Feature film | |
1991 | The Girl from Mars | Virgil | Feature film | |
1993 | Corrupt Justice | Goodwin | Feature film | |
1995 | Tunnel Vision | Steve Docherty | Feature film | |
1995 | On the Dead Side | Feature film | ||
2002 | Tempe Tip | Norman Crisp | Feature film |
Year | Award | Category | TV show | Result |
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2001 | Australian Film Institute Awards | Won Best Actor in a Guest Role in a TV Drama Series | Blue Heelers | Won |
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