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A tall timber just fell in the Australian rainforest ...our most well loved actor moved to the big stage in the Sky.
Remember him in 'The Castle' and other famous movies?
His approach to acting was simple. He once told me: "Think. Really think. Listen. Really listen." He was like that in life, too.Always well dressed, his bearing recalled that age when ABC radio announcers wore dinner suits to read the evening news. Whenever I saw him he transported me back to an era of innocence, homeliness and charm, where people posed formally for photographs and wrote letters to people. When acting was still regarded as an honourable profession, a bit like a gentleman's club, and not an industrial pool of labour.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/obit...ved-the-pictures-and-radio-20090515-b65r.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25490559-16382,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25490559-16382,00.html
Gallery of shots of the great man at work:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/gallery/0,23816,5053728-17382,00.html
His war service was also exciting:
He joined the RAAF in 1941 and he flew a Spitfire as part of the top-secret 680 Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, based in the Middle East, covering the German-occupied eastern Mediterranean. "I flew 75 operations, which sounds brave, but I got shot at an awful lot," he said. "If you did what you were supposed to do, you had a fairly interesting time."
Remember him in 'The Castle' and other famous movies?
His approach to acting was simple. He once told me: "Think. Really think. Listen. Really listen." He was like that in life, too.Always well dressed, his bearing recalled that age when ABC radio announcers wore dinner suits to read the evening news. Whenever I saw him he transported me back to an era of innocence, homeliness and charm, where people posed formally for photographs and wrote letters to people. When acting was still regarded as an honourable profession, a bit like a gentleman's club, and not an industrial pool of labour.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/obit...ved-the-pictures-and-radio-20090515-b65r.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25490559-16382,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25490559-16382,00.html
Gallery of shots of the great man at work:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/gallery/0,23816,5053728-17382,00.html
His war service was also exciting:
He joined the RAAF in 1941 and he flew a Spitfire as part of the top-secret 680 Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, based in the Middle East, covering the German-occupied eastern Mediterranean. "I flew 75 operations, which sounds brave, but I got shot at an awful lot," he said. "If you did what you were supposed to do, you had a fairly interesting time."
