Gary Day (actor)

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Gary Day
Born (1941-11-10) 10 November 1941 (age 82)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation(s)Actor, writer
Years active1960-2004 (as actor and playwright) [1]
Known for Homicide , Murder Call
AwardsAustralia 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 .

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Television

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.

Stage roles

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]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesAvailability
1960 The Adventures of the Terrible Ten Guest roleTV series
1969 Skippy MitchTV seriEd, Season 2, episode 30: Plain JaneAvailable on DVD
1970 The Link Men ConstableTV series, Season 1, episode 10: Somebody's Kid is MissingAvailable on DVD
1970 The Long Arm Detective EmersonTV series, Season 1, episode 1: The Lion Was the First to KnowAvailable on DVD
1972 Matlock Police Norman HendersonTV series, Season 2, episode 45: A Perfect GentlemanAvailable on DVD
1972-77 Homicide Senior Detective Phil Redford / Russell ThompsonTV series, 134 episodesAvailable on DVD
1977 The Box Marcus LloydTV series, 1 episode
1977-78 Cop Shop Lyle Scott / Philip Stedman / Simon HuttonTV series, 11 episodesAvailable on DVD
1983 Carson's Law Mr. WardTV series, episode: Happy FamiliesAvailable on DVD
1983 Home DennyTV series, Season 1, episode 21 & 22
1984 Mortimer's Patch John MarinovichTV series, Season 3, episode 6: Nothing Changed
1984Inside StraightCharles MorrisonTV series, Season 1, episode 2
1986 The Great Bookie Robbery Coilin ReynoldsTV miniseriesAvailable on DVD
1986The Fast LaneKeelTV series, Season 2, episode 9
1988 The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy TV miniseries
1989 Mission: Impossible LarouxTV series, Season 1, episode 16
1989 A Country Practice Duncan StevensonTV series, Season 9, episodes 15 & 16Available on DVD
1990 Come in Spinner Nigel CarstairsTV miniseriesAvailable on DVD
1990 Flair ChuckTV miniseriesNot Available
1990 The Great Air Race Ray ParerTV miniseries
1991 Shark in the Park Detective Sergeant TysonTV series, Season 3, episode 1
1993 Snowy Charlie GillespieTV series, episodes 6 & 11Available on DVD
1994-2001 Blue Heelers Commander Reginald JonesTV series, Season 1, episode 8, & Season 8, episodes 27 & 28Available on DVD
1995 Blue Murder Bill CroftonTV miniseriesAvailable on DVD
1996 Halifax f.p. Sergeant Mick SnowTV series, Season 1, Episode 7:Without ConsentAvailable on DVD
1996 The Bite CoveneyTV miniseries
1996TwistedLowellTV series, Season 1, Episode 11
1997–2000 Murder Call Detective Inspector Malcolm ThorneTV series, 56 episodesAvailable on DVD
1999 Dog's Head Bay Stan FairweatherTV series, Season 1, episode 11
1999 Stingers Edgar VossTV series, Season 2, episode 22Available on DVD

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesAvailability
1971 Three to Go David (segment "Judy")Short film
1972 The Man Who Shot the Albatross TV film
1977 Raw Deal Tyrone LeaderFeature film
1977 The Mango Tree Constable McHendryFeature film
1978 The Night Nurse RickTV film
1980The Quick Brown FoxPaul Sharmann
1980Departmental
1980 Nightmares Policeman #2Feature film (aka Night Mares)Available on DVD
1980Going HomeMikeFeature film
1982 Duet for Four Terry ByrneFeature film
1982 Crosstalk Ed BallingerFeature filmAvailable on DVD
1983 Skin Deep Ed PriceTV filmAvailable on DVD
1984 Death Warmed Up Dr. Archer HowellFeature filmAvailable on DVD
1985 Glass Babies Brendan KellerTV filmAvailable on DVD
1985 Natural Causes WarrenTV film
1985 Hanging Together CraigFeature film
1986 Body Business Nick ChristopherTV miniseries
1987 The Surfer (aka Death Wave)Sam BarlowFeature film
1987 Hard Knuckle TopdogTV film
1989 A Sting in the Tale Barry RobbinsFeature film
1990 Harbour Beat Gavin WalkerMiniseries
1990 Jigsaw Gordon CarrollFeature film
1991 The Girl from Mars VirgilFeature film
1993Corrupt JusticeGoodwinFeature film
1995 Tunnel Vision Steve DochertyFeature film
1995On the Dead SideFeature film
2002 Tempe Tip Norman CrispFeature film

Awards

YearAwardCategoryTV showResult
2001 Australian Film Institute Awards Won Best Actor in a Guest Role in a TV Drama SeriesBlue HeelersWon

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