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John McTernan is an Australian actor, known for several theatre and television roles.
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John McTernan is an Australian actor, known for several theatre and television roles.
A former sailor, McTernan started acting when he came to Australia from the United States in 1968. [1] His thirty year-plus career in theatre, television and film began with training and then performing at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney.
McTernan's first job was singing and dancing in cabaret shows. One of his earliest professional jobs was in a vocal comedy act with friend Timothy Bean, both writing and performing their material. [2]
McTernan has appeared with all the major theatre companies. He has appeared in several productions at Ensemble Theatre including Lovers, The Comedians, Boy Meets Girl, 6 Rms Riv Vu, Sonny and Same Difference, and most recently Wrong Turn at Lungfish in 2008. His work at the Melbourne Theatre Company includes Born Yesterday , Twelfth Night , Into the Woods , Assassins , The Glass Menagerie , The Real Thing , Serious Money , High Society , Art , Take Me Out and Boy Gets Girl . Plays for Nimrod Theatre Company include Young Mo, Volpone , Inside the Island, The Orestia , Clouds, Romeo and Juliet , Henry IV and Comedy of Errors . He appeared in the following Sydney Theatre Company productions: The Sunny South , The Venetian Twins , The Caucasian Chalk Circle . Work for other theatre companies included Sanctuary , Oleanna , What Did We Do Wrong? among others.
McTernan is also well known for his work in music theatre with major stage roles in Grease , Godspell , Guys and Dolls , Sunset Boulevard , The History of Australia , Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat , Shout , Into the Woods , and Assassins . Also for The Production Company in Melbourne: She Loves Me, Gypsy and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
His work in film includes: The Brown Out Murders, the ABC feature Fuzzy, The Understudy and Evil Never Dies.
He is known to television audiences for roles in popular Australian drama series and soap operas. Long running series roles include: Cop Shop and G.P. , for which he won Logie Awards. He played a gay man later revealed as a psychopathic blackmailer in soap opera Number 96 in 1977, and played a prison teacher in Prisoner in 1986. He played Lee Gordon in the miniseries Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe
Other television roles include City Homicide , All Saints , Blue Heelers , Stingers , Something in the Air and Scooter: Secret Agent .
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | The Understudy | ||
| 1984 | Fuzzy | TV movie | |
| 1988 | The Brown Out Murders | ||
| 2003 | Evil Never Dies | Dr Calvert | TV movie |
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Toy Factory | TV series | |
| 1977 | Number 96 | Rob Forsyth | TV series |
| 1978 | The Young Doctors | TV series | |
| 1978 | The Oracle | ||
| 1981-83 | Cop Shop | TV series | |
| 1984 | Five Mile Creek | TV series | |
| 1984 | Zoo Family | TV series | |
| 1985 | The Last Bastion | TV miniseries | |
| 1985 | Special Squad | TV series | |
| 1986 | Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe | Lee Gordon | TV miniseries |
| 1986 | Prisoner | TV series | |
| 1987 | Nancy Wake | TV miniseries | |
| 1987 | The Flying Doctors | TV series | |
| 1988 | The Four Minute Mile | Dave Garroway | TV miniseries |
| 1989-91 | G.P. | Robert | TV series |
| 1994 | The Feds: Abduction | Alan Guinnane | TV miniseries |
| 1994 | The Man from Snowy River | Mr O'Shea | TV series |
| 1995 | Blue Heelers | Father Michael | TV series |
| 1997 | Good Guys, Bad Guys | Chief Commissioner Fuller | TV series |
| 1999 | All Saints | Geoff Cavendish | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2000 | Stingers | Jim Duncan | TV series |
| 2000 | Blue Heelers | Peter Carlson | TV series |
| 2001 | Something in the Air | Young | TV series |
| 2002-03 | Stingers | Dr Dan Fraser | TV series |
| 2002 | MDA | Dr Michael Forsythe | TV series |
| 2005 | Scooter: Secret Agent | Mackenna | TV series |
| 2007 | City Homicide | Mulholland | TV series |
| 2010 | Killing Time | Justice Shepherd / Ian Watson | TV series |
| 2010 | Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey | Parish Priest | TV series |
| 2013 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Larry Dunn | TV series |
McTernan won the 'Best Lead Actor' award in 1982 and 1983 at the Logies for his role in Cop Shop . For his role in G.P. , he was nominated for Logies as Best Actor in 1990 and Outstanding Actor in 1991, and went on to win the Outstanding Actor award in 1992. He has also won a Green Room Award in 1987 for Best Supporting Actor as Feste in Twelfth Night for the Melbourne Theatre Company. [4]
| Association | Awards | Year | Role | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logie Awards | Best Lead Actor | 1982 | Cop Shop | Won |
| Logie Awards | Best Lead Actor | 1983 | Cop Shop | Won |
| Logie Awards | Best Actor | 1990 | G.P. | Nominated |
| Logie Awards | Most Outstanding Actor | 1991 | G.P. | Nominated |
| Green Room Awards | Best Supporting Actor | 1987 | Twelfth Night | Won |
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