Patricia Ethell McDonald was an Australian radio actor and actor of stage and television and the daughter of one of Australia's most prominent electric radio engineers and public servants, Arthur Stephen McDonald and his wife, milliner Edith Roseina Ethell. Her grandfather, bootmaker John McDonald, was born in Victoria, and married Eliza Mary Stevenson. Although she was not the first female Gold Logie winner in Australia, which was entertainer and TV host Lorrae Desmond, she was the first female character actor to win for serial Number 96.
Bettina Catherine Welch was a New Zealand-born Australia-based actress, primarily in radio and theatre and of the latter in television roles. She was best known for her role in television soap opera Number 96 as Maggie Cameron, a scheming businesswoman and fashion editor.
Anne Charleston is an Australian actress, notable for her career locally and in the United Kingdom and Ireland in theatre and television. Charleston started her career in theatre in the mid 1950's, and has been a staple of the small screen since the early 1960s, starting with roles in telemovies, before making appearance's in the various Crawford Productions series starting from the latter 1960s and 1970s, before becoming known for her three different recurring roles in cult classic series Prisoner
Tom Oliver is a British-born Australian retired actor who started his career in theatre in his native country, before emigrating to Australia.
Lynda Stoner is an Australian former actress, most notable for her roles on the small screen on television soap operas and serials is an animal rights activist. She is the chief executive of Animal Liberation, an animal rights charity.
Gordon Sholto McDougall was a Scottish Australian actor. He trained at the Glasgow Athenaeum. After immigrating to Australia, he worked in numerous theatre productions as both an actor and director, but became best known in TV soap opera Number 96, firstly as amateur inventor Les Whittaker, who was a comedy character opposite Sheila Kennelly and subsequently albeit less successfully as his aristocratic brother Andrew Whittaker, Lord McCraddenow.
Elaine Joyce Knoesen better known professionally as Elaine Lee, was a South African-born actress of radio and theatre and stage. She made her film debut in her native South Africa in 1968, but became best known in Australia for her role of fashion designer Vera Collins in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96.
Mike Dorsey was an English-born Australian theatre and television actor and publicity officer and tour manager.
Wendy Blacklock AM is an Australian-born retired theatre actress and theatrical entrepreneur, radio and television actress, comedienne, producer, writer, singer, dancer and choreographer who has appeared in numerous performance roles, both locally and in the United Kingdom, and has been referred to as "The Grand Dame of the Stage".
Judith Mary Stuart Farr, also credited as Judy Farr, was an Australian actress of theatre, film and television, with a career spanning some seven decades, she was best known for several situation comedy roles on Australian television. Farr also appeared in Australian films such as December Boys and Walking on Water which she won an AFI award for.
Briony Behets is an English-born Australian former actress who found fame acting in Australian television soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s.
Philippa Baker, credited also as Phillippa Baker )note: not related to Australian actress Lesley Baker). is an Australian retired actress of radio, theatre and television in series and teleplays and telefilms
Dina Mann, also credited as Diana Mann, is an Australian actress and casting director recognised for several television soap opera and film roles from 1970 until 1985, after which she worked as a casting director until 2014. She is probably best known for her role as Debbie Chester in the latter years of TV serial Number 96 in which she featured from 1975 until 1977, in 137 episodes.
Patrick Ward was an Australian actor noted for several performances on Australian television. He died from cancer on October 14, 2019.
Jeff Kevin is an Australian actor, theatre director and drama lecturer best known for portraying Arnold Feather in 338 episodes from 1972-1977 in television soap opera Number 96, his character was involved in numerous iconic storyline's including his marriage of Patti Olsen and mourning her subsequent death at the hands of the Pantyhose strangler and following for in love with Robyn Ross, unbeknownst to him Ross is transgender. this storyarc broke ground for a serial at the time in that portrayor in cabaret artist Carlotta, was the first transgender actress to portray a transgender character anywhere in the world
Vivienne Garrett is an Australian-based theatre, film and television actress. She is a theatre director, acting and voice coach and also a qualified yoga instructor and therapist. She was born in Sydney, NSW and now lives in Western Australia. Garrett graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1970.
Janeece "Jan" Adele was an Australian actress and entertainer active in many fields including circus, vaudeville, theatre, film and television. She was best known for her recurring comedy role of vaudevillian showgirl Trixie O'Toole in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96, usually sharing scenes with co-stars Wendy Blacklock and Mike Dorsey.
Allison Mills, also known as Alley Bean, is an American actress, known for her roles on television. She starred as Norma Arnold, in the coming-of-age ABC comedy series, The Wonder Years (1988–1993). In 2006 she began playing the role of Pamela Douglas, the sister of the late Forrester matriarch Stephanie Forrester, on the CBS soap operaThe Bold and the Beautiful. From 2022 to 2023, Mills also portrayed antagonistic Heather Webber on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
Mary Ann Severne is a New Zealand-born Australian actress active in Australian made films and television programs from the 1970s.
Number 96: The Movie is an Australian drama film, released in 1974 and based on the television soap opera of the same title that was then running on the 0-10 network. The film features nearly all the show's regular cast, and was created by the show's creative team, Cash Harmon Productions with the screenplay by David Sale and Johnny Whyte and directed by Peter Benardos and Brian Phillis.
