Liz Harris

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Liz Harris
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Elizabeth Harris
OccupationActress
Years active1962–1993
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(m. 1968⁠–⁠1994)​

Elizabeth Harris is an Australian retired stage and television actress who appeared on a number of popular television series and films from the mid-1960s up until her retirement in 1993. She is best known for her role as Liza in the 1960s children's television series Adventure Island but also for playing recurring characters Sally Dempster in Prisoner and Clover Owen-Jones in A Country Practice in her later career. She was also the wife of longtime Australian television and radio star Leonard Teale. They married on 18 December 1968.

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Biography

Harris made her television acting debut on Consider Your Verdict in 1962. [1] From 1962 to 1966 she co-hosted an Australian version of Video Village , with Danny Webb, on Channel 7. She was then cast in the children's television series The Magic Circle Club as a recurring character (and later replacing original host Nancy Cato, who had been injured during production), and made several guest appearances on Homicide between 1965 and 1966. [2] She also starred in a second children's series, Adventure Island (1967) with co-stars Nancy Cato and Ernie Bourne, [3] in what became her breakout role as the series heroine "Liza", [4] [5] [6] [7] and Hunter (1968). In July 1968, she also performed at St. Martin's Theatre with Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood and Ted Allen in a London Theatre Workshop stage production of Oh, What a Lovely War! [8]

She took an absence from television acting for several years but made brief appearances on The 40s in Swing Time (1973), Alvin Purple (1976) and King's Men (1979). In 1982, she was cast as Sally Dempster in the series Prisoner . [9] [10] Although she appeared on the series briefly, Harris had a memorable role as an alcoholic wife of a businessman. [11] Her character is sent to prison for running over her husband and attempts suicide after it is revealed that she was physically abusive to her young daughter. [12]

She also appeared on Sons and Daughters [13] and A Country Practice that same year. Her recurring role as Clover Owen-Jones in the latter series would continue on and off for the next nine years. [14] Harris continued to make television appearances during the 1980s with supporting roles in television films Skin Deep (1984), Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe (1985) and the television series Relative Merits in 1987. Her final television appearance was in G.P. in 1993.

In January 2004, she appeared at a special book signing and screening of Lisa Milner's Fighting Films with Michael Craig and Jack Thompson. Her attendance was in honor of her late husband Leonard Teale who worked with the film company as a voice actor during the 1950s. [15]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleType
1976 The Bushranger TV film
1984 Skin Deep Emily SorenssonTV film

Television

YearTitleRoleType
1962-1966 Video Village Herself - MayoressTV series
1962 Consider Your Verdict Kath HutchinsTV series, episode 1.76: "Queen Versus Grant"
1965–1966 Homicide Shirley Smith / Libby Hart / Lesley ThorneTV series, 3 episodes, 2.18 “Second Time Around”; 3.04 "Three-Headed Dog"; 3.37 "My Brother Must Rest"
1966 Australian Playhouse TV series, 1 episode
1967 The Magic Circle Club HostTV series, 555 episodes
1967-1972 Adventure Island Liza / PrincessABC TV series, 876 episodes
1967 The Barry Creyton Show GuestTV series
1967Bassey At ChequersGuest - Herself & Leonard TealeTV Concert special
1968 Hunter SuzetteTV series, episode 1.43: "The VC Bullet"
1969-1970 In Melbourne Tonight GuestTV series, 9 episodes
1969; 1970 Sounds Like Us HerselfTV series, 2 episodes
1970Australia's Celebrity GameContestantTV series, 1 episode
1970 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1972 I've Got A Secret Herself - GuestTV series, 1 episode
1972Bobby Limb's Sound Of ChristmasGuest - Herself & Leonard TealeTV special
1973 The Graham Kennedy Show GuestTV series, 2 episodes
1973The 40s in Swing TimeHerselfTV series, 6 episodes
1976 Alvin Purple MiriamTV series, episode 1.03: "Like Son, Like Father"
1976This Is Your LifeGuest - HerselfTV series, 1 episode "Leonard Teale"
1976 King's Men TV series, episode 1.08: "Crusade"
1978; 1979 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1979 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1982 Sons and Daughters Margaret SelmarTV series, 3 episodes
1982 Prisoner: Cell Block H Sally DempsterTV series, 8 episodes
1982; 1985; 1991 A Country Practice Carol GloverTV series, episode 2.13: "A Little Knowledge"
1983 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - Herself with Sue McIntoshTV series, 1 episode
1985; 1991 A Country Practice Dee Dee MacraeTV series, episode 5.15: "Seasons Come & Seasons Go"
1985 Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe Valda MarshallTV miniseries, 2 episodes
1987 Relative Merits TV miniseries
1989–91 A Country Practice Clover Owen-JonesTV series
1991 Tonight Live With Steve Vizard GuestTV series, 1 episode
1992The Morning ShowGuestTV series, 1 episode
1993; 1994Good Morning AustraliaGuestTV series, 2 episodes
1993 G.P. Shirley HarrisonTV series, episode 5.06: "A Thousand Flowers"
1994 Homicide... 30 Years On HerselfTV special
1996The Crawford StoryHerselfTV special

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  3. ↑ Moran, Albert; Keating, Chris (2007). Historical Dictionary of Australian Radio and Television. Langham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 243. ISBN   978-0-8108-5370-6.
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