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John Derum | |
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| Born | John Bernard Derum 9 January 1946 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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John Bernard Derum AM (born 9 January 1946) is an Australian stage, film and television actor. He has also an artistic administrator and directed and produced for theatre companies throughout Australia and for television. Derum was worked as a politician for local council.
John Bernard Derum was born in St Vincent's Maternity Hospital [1] in East Melbourne (now demolished) [2] on 9 January 1946. [1] [3] [4]
Derum first appeared on Australian television in the first episode of Homicide in 1964, a serious role as the delinquent son of a bank security guard. Later he appeared in another Australian police drama Division 4 . He became famous for his appearances as Narrator Neville in the first season of the ABC's irreverent satire/comedy The Aunty Jack Show . [5] [6] Derum appeared in a number of comedy and revue series including The Thursday Creek Mob (1969–70), The True Blue Show (1975), Doctor Down Under (1979) as "Doctor Maurice Griffin", [7] and Ratbags (1982). He appeared in the final edition of The Mavis Bramston Show in 1975.
He played B. A. Santamaria in the ABC miniseries True Believers (1987) and Francis James in The Gadfly [8] (1990) and appeared in G.P. and Mother and Son in the 1990s.
For ABC Television, he hosted more than 200 editions of the national quiz The Oz Game and more than 50 episodes of the Australian music and folklore program That's Australia .
Derum also lent his voice to the ABC children's animated television series The Adventures of Sam .
He narrated the audio-book Sanctuary by Judy Nunn.
His film appearances include Mad Dog Morgan , The Trespassers (1976; as Richard), [5] [9] Kazzam International , and The Night the Prowler (1978; as John). [5] [10]
John Derum has become widely identified with his interpretation of the work of Australian writers, particularly C. J. Dennis. He performed More Than A Sentimental Bloke, his tribute to Dennis, more than 500 times around Australia between 1979 and 1994. He has also recorded and performed The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and the Dennis masterpiece The Glugs of Gosh .
He was twice held offices for Actors Equity and founded an actors support group called "Actor's Forum".
Derum first appeared in theatre the same year he made his TV debut in 1963 in a production of at Wal Cherry's Emerald Hill Theatre and was cast in the George Whaley production Billy Liar, and within six months was working as a alongside Googie Withers and Keith Mitchell in a nationwide Shakespeare tour called "The First Four Hundred Years". The young actor continued to work and mature and play roles in such productions as The Seagull (Adelaide Festival 1970), Peer Gynt (Sydney Opera House) and several roles in The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Sydney Theatre Company 1983-1985), and The Crucible (Sydney Theatre Company)and numerous other revues, musicals and variety performance.
Derum was artistic director of the Canberra Theatre Company in 1985 and 1986.
He was awarded a Literary Fellowship by the Australian Defence Force Academy, which enabled an expanded script of "More Than A Sentimental Bloke".
Derum served as Manager of the Independent Theatre, from 1996 and 1999, overseeing the restoration and re-opening of the historical theatre.
After his return from the Blue Mountains to Sydney in 2007, heresumed his career as an actor and director. He has directed many rehearsed readings of new scripts, including "Waiting For Goterson"" by Sam Atwell. He played Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan and Aiden Turner and David Marsh in David Hare's The Power of Yes in 2010.
Derum was elected to Blue Mountains City Council from 1995 to 1999 and worked as a political adviser between 2001 and 2007. He was appointed to the Theatre Committee of the NSW Government Arts Advisory Board, and worked on the staff of the NSW Minister for the Environment and Attorney-General and as electorate advisor for three members of parliament.
Derum was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 26 January 2019, "for significant service to the performing arts as an actor, director and administrator, and to the community". [11]
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