Related Research Articles
Harry Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr. was an American film and television producer, director, actor and studio executive, who was the founder of the namesake Hal Roach Studios. Roach was active in the industry from the 1910s to the 1990s and is best remembered today for producing a number of successes including the Laurel and Hardy franchise, the films of entertainer Charley Chase, and the Our Gang short film comedy series.
Robert Buck known as Robbie Buck is an Australian radio announcer.
Lindsay McAllister M "The Doctor" McDougall is an Australian rock guitarist and radio presenter. Since 1996, he has been the lead guitarist in punk rock band, Frenzal Rhomb alongside lead singer Jay Whalley. He has co-written songs with fellow band members including their highest charting single, "You Are Not My Friend". During 2003 McDougall organised Rock Against Howard, a compilation album, by various Australian musicians as a protest against incumbent Prime Minister, John Howard's government. It was released in August 2004, before the October federal election; Howard's coalition was nonetheless re-elected. In 2005, with Whalley, he co-hosted the Breakfast Show on national youth radio network Triple J, as Jay and the Doctor. In 2008, after Whalley left, he worked with Robbie Buck and Marieke Hardy. From 2010 to late 2014, he hosted the afternoon drive time programme. Since January 2018, McDougall has fronted the afternoon drive show on the ABC's local radio station in Wollongong, 97.3 ABC Illawarra. He is an animal rights activist and a vegan.
Francis Joseph Hardy, published as Frank J. Hardy and also under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn, was an Australian novelist and writer. He best known for his 1950 novel Power Without Glory, and for his later political activism. He brought the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky Australians, in 1968, written during the Gurindji Strike. He ran unsuccessfully for the Australian parliament twice as a Communist Party of Australia candidate.
Edward Thomas Hardy is an English actor and producer. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and two BAFTA Awards, receiving the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian writer, radio and television presenter, television producer and screenwriter and former television actress.
Mary Veronica Hardy was an Australian television and radio presenter, actress, writer and comedian. She was best known for her caustic wit, indifference to authority and tireless ability to ad lib. On receiving one of her many Logie Awards, she quipped: “In all sincerity I don’t want to thank anybody”.
Jennifer Victoria Byrne is an Australian journalist, television presenter and former book publisher. She currently hosts the monthly ABC television program First Tuesday Book Club, later renamed The Book Club.
Marieke, sometimes written as Marike or Marique is a Dutch-language feminine given name, a diminutive of Maria.
Phonetically, the name is said muh-re´-kah/keh, prefereably with a rolling “r”.
The "-ke" suffix is characteristic for Flemish dialects, indicating that the name perhaps originated in present-day Belgium.
Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2001. The 26-episode series was aimed at teenagers. It was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Burberry Productions. The series was subsequently repeated on the youth-oriented network ABC3 in March and April 2011.
Alexander Edward Dyson is an Australian radio presenter who presented the breakfast show on Australian youth radio station Triple J from 2010 to 2016, alongside Tom Ballard and then with Matt Okine.
Belle van Zuylen – Madame de Charrière is a 1993 Dutch historical film, directed by Digna Sinke.
"Marieke" is a 1961 song by the Belgian singer Jacques Brel.
Mary Hardy may refer to:
Jason Herbison is an Australian television producer, screenwriter and novelist, he is currently serving as series producer of soap opera Neighbours. He has written scripts for numerous television serials, and has published several novels.
Alan Hardy may refer to:
Love is Forever is a 1954 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Karlheinz Böhm, Ulla Jacobsson and Ingrid Andree. The film is based on the play Fires of St. John by Hermann Sudermann.
Michaela McGuire is an Australian journalist, author, and literary host based in Sydney, Australia.
Marieke Vervoort was a Belgian Paralympic athlete who suffered from reflex sympathetic dystrophy. She won several medals at Paralympics, and she received worldwide attention in 2016 when she revealed that she was considering euthanasia.
Surviving Summer is an upcoming Australian drama television program for children and teenagers on Netflix. It follows a feisty group of teen divers who race to find their best friend when she disappears after a storm hits their small coastal town.
References
- ↑ Alan Hardy at AustLit
- ↑ Harriet Lonnbord, "Marieke and Alan Hardy", ABC Conversation Hour 14 September, 2010 accessed 3 August 2013