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Television (expand)

DRAMA:
  • Division 4
  • Homicide
  • Bluey
  • Ryan
  • Skyways
  • Holiday Island
  • Special Squad
  • Carson's Law
  • Flying Doctors
  • PRISONER/CELL-BLOCK H
  • Home (ABC)
  • Dancing Daze (ABC)
  • The Power
  • The Passion (7)
  • Janus (ABC)

COMEDY:
  • Shoo-Be-Doos (ABC)
  • Colin Carpenter
  • Vile (SBS)
  • Comedy Festival Annual Debate - 'That Laughter Is Better Than Sex'
  • Shock Jock (tv1) 2001

CHILDREN:
  • Five Times Dizzy (SBS) (1986)
  • Round the Twist (2000)

TELEMOVIES:
  • A Single Life
  • Working Up
  • Licence TRage

PRESENTER:
  • Review (ABC)
  • Melbourne presenter - 1993
  • 7.30 Report (ABC)
  • self-initiated, quirky, 'what's-on- round-up, Friday nights, early '93.
  • Various corporate videos.

GUEST APPEARANCES AS SINGER/PANELIST/HOST/GUEST:
  • Countdown, Sounds,
  • Nightmoves
  • Rock Around the World
  • the Mike Walsh Show
  • the Midday Show
  • the Bert Newton Show ( 9)
  • the Peter Couchman Show (10)
  • Blankety Blanks
  • Starsearch
  • Have A GHey Hey It's Saturday
  • Tonight Live - the Vizard Show
  • the Peter Couchman Show (ABC)
  • the Bert Newton Show (10)

ADS:
  • SUSSAN (1999) - national 12 months.
  • WORKCOVER - Back-pain ad with Denise Scott (1999) (Victoria only)

Prisoner (expand)

MARGO GAFFNEY
Played by Jane Clifton
Margo first appears in Prisoner as a background inmate during episode 92 but her proper appearance is as prison bookie in episode 123.

From around episode 127 onwards some of the women are chosen to be involved in a work scheme in a factory. Margo is chosen and uses this opportunity to continue her gambling profits on the outside and get some of the factory workers involved. The factory's book keeper Kay White is persuaded into running up huge debts and is sent to Wentworth as a prisoner when she is found guilty of embezzling money in an effort to pay off her debts. Margo, of course, is still out of pocket, so tries to force Kay into paying up by adding broken glass to her food. It only causes a bloody mouth and Kay is later killed by another inmate.

Theatre (expand)

  • Student theatre at school and university, including Monash Players and Melbourne Youth Theatre.
  • TRIBE - experimental theatre group directed by Doug Anders and which performed at La Mama, the Pram Factory and in the streets. ( 1969 - 1972.)
  • LA MAMA - Assorted one-off plays, including:
  • Nightflowers by Max Richards
  • Gone TSee A Man About A Dog by Peter Lillie and CosmTopper.
  • THE GREAT STUMBLE FORWARD - street theatre group 1973-74.

BACK THEATRE at the PRAM FACTORY
A Ride Across Lake Constance by Peter Handke.Co-directed.
Mechanics In A Relaxed Manner by Peter Lillie and CosmD.Topper. Co-directed.

Women's Theatre Group - involved in the establishment and first productions of this group, including:
  • Womens Weekly Volume 1 Womens Weekly Volume 2
  • The Love Show as well as the first Festival of Women's Theatre (1974).
  • Africa by Steve J. Spears. 1974.
  • L'Amante Anglaise and La Musica both by Marguerite Duras. Directed by Shuv'us. 1978.

THE A.P.G. (Australian Performing Group)
at the Pram Factory theatre in Carlton 1973- 1978.
  • Waltzing Matilda by Tim Robertson
  • A Floating World by John Romeril. The premiere production in 1974 directed by Linzee Smith.
  • Sisters by Robin Thurston. Directed by Richard Murphett. 1976.
  • AC/DC by Heathcote Williams. Directed by Linzee Smith. 1976.
  • Mickey's Moomba by John Romeril and Tim Robertson. 1979.
  • DIMBOOLA - by Jack Hibberd. Directed by Tim Robertson. At the Chevron Hotel, Melb.. 1974.
  • THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE - by Sue Townsend. Directed by Terry O'Connell. 1986.
  • DREAMTIME - by Keith Michell. Directed by George Fairfax. At the State Theatre, Vic. Arts Centre.1990.
  • PRISONER/CELL BLOCK 'H' - the theatre version of the t.v. series.
  • By Reg Watson. Directed by Stewart Trotter. Toured the UK for 13 weeks (13 cities). (1990.)
  • LAUGHING WILD - by Christopher Durang. Directed by Pamela Hollings for the Soup Kitchen Theatre. (1990.)
  • THE SELECTION - written and directed by George Whaley for the MTC.(1991 - 92.)
  • AN EVENING WITH MERV HUGHES - commercial production (Sydney 1993.) (adapted from the British play 'An Evening With Gary Linneker'.)
  • LOVELETTERS by A.R. Gurney. With Campbell McComas for the Castlemaine Festival 1994. Alsat Capers Theatre Restaurant with Jon Finlayson (1997)
  • MUM'S THE WORD by 6 Canadian women. dir: Kaarin Fairfax for Artist Services. Athenaeum Theatre and interstate tours Melbourne from April' 98 tMay 2000
  • GO IN TIGHT by Barry Dickins. At La Mama 2001. Dir. James Clayden.
  • MENOPAUSE - THE MUSICAL by Jeannie Linders. At the Comedy Theatre Melbourne, 2005.
  • BARMAIDS by Katherine Thompson. Dir: Terence O'Connell.
  • Australian tour Sept 'Dec. 2006 for Hit Productions.

Film (expand)

  • The Clinic - 1982 dir. David Stevens
  • A Slice Of Life - 1982 dir. John Lamonde (and marked 'never to be released !)
  • As Time Goes By - 1987 dir. Barry Peake.
  • A Kink In The Picasso - dir. Mark Gracie
  • Garbo - 1990 dir. Ron Cobb
  • Trapped - 1999 dir./writer Trudi Hellier
  • Matching Jack - 2010 dir. Nadia Tass


Latest News (expand)

Matching Jack - a film by Nadia Tass and David Parker and starring Irish mega-star James Nesbitt is being released in Australia on August 19th, 2010. I play a small role as a doctor in this fabulous, heart-breaking film about kids with leukemia. It is warm, funny and a 3 Kleenex box film. Not to be missed - if only for my 30 second appearance !