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The Sullivans
1976
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
Daniel Roberts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel "Danny" Roberts (born 1966) is an Australian actor. He started with the Patch Theatre at age 12, and was in the first round at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1979. He moved to Melbourne in 1982 where he appeared in Cop Shop and The Sullivans. He then played a lead role in the soap opera Waterloo Station (1983), but the series was cancelled after a few months on air. He then became a major cast member in Sons and Daughters playing Andy Green from 1983 until the series ended in 1987. After Sons and Daughters he travelled to the United States where he met his wife. They married and had two children Alania Neil-Roberts, and David Jones-Roberts. Danny Roberts went on to a regular role in soap opera The Power, The Passion which ran for eight months in 1989. After the series was cancelled he moved to Byron Bay, New South Wales where he founded the Australian Theatre Company in 1991. He was Artistic Director of the company until 1995, then acted in the series Fire playing Georgie Parker's brother Ted Cartright. Other roles include The Last Bullet, Home and Away, Blue Heelers, Murder Call, Stingers, Young Lions, Big Sky, Close Contact. His film credits include, Blackwater Trail, Walking on Water, Beneath Clouds, Mission: Impossible 2, Dreamland. He worked on Underbelly: The Golden Mile. He currently plays Nate's father Gavin Cooper on Home and Away.
Michael Caton
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Caton (born in Monto, Queensland, 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor, and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series, The Sullivans, playing Darryl Kerrigan from 1997's low budget hit film The Castle, and playing in the popular Packed to the Rafters. He is married to Helen Esakoff. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Caton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Joanne Samuel
Cast · Known for Mad Max
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joanne Samuel (born 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max. Prior to her appearance in the film, Samuel had made guest appearances in police procedurals Matlock Police and Homicide. She was then a regular cast member in television soap operas Class of '74, The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. She left The Young Doctors very suddenly – the producers kindly wrote her out of the show quickly as she was offered the Mad Max role after a fellow Young Doctors actress who had been due to take the role fell ill. Samuel later returned to television in the regular role of Kelly Morgan-Young in Skyways (TV series). Samuel later guest starred in Hey Dad! as Jeanette Taylor and All Saints, and played the school principal in The Wiggles in their film The Wiggles Movie. Samuel is married to Tony Ahern. They have several children. They live in the Blue Mountains suburb of Blackheath and Samuel has retired from acting. Samuel is active in the local Baptist church. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Samuel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lisa Crittenden
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Lisa Crittenden is an Australian television actress, known such as as The Restless Years (as Briony Thompson, 1981), The Sullivans (as Sally Meredith), Prisoner (as Maxine Daniels 1982–83), Sons and Daughters (as Leigh Palmer 1985–86), Rafferty's Rules (1988) and the New Zealand produced Shortland Street (as Carrie Burton 1992–93). Crittenden retired from acting and worked in Local State Government in 2003.
Paul Cronin
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Paul Cronin (8 July 1938 – 13 September 2019) was an Australian television actor who played roles in the Australian television series Matlock Police and The Sullivans. As a young man Cronin moved to Melbourne where he worked in a variety of jobs. After actively seeking an acting career, he performed in various Crawford Productions including Division 4 and Homicide. Cronin appeared as motorcycle policeman Gary Hogan in the Crawford Productions drama Matlock Police (1971–1976), followed by its spin-off Solo One (1976). He played the central character of Dave Sullivan in the popular soap opera The Sullivans from 1976 to 1983.
Fiona Paul
Fiona Paul is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as mauren Sullivan in the television drama, The Sullivans, and as Sarah Webster in Prisoner.
Peter Hehir
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Peter Hehir (born 1949) is an Australian actor. He had a regular role as Bert Duggan on the soap opera The Sullivans from 1976 to 1978.
Richard Morgan
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Richard Morgan (12 August 1958 – 23 December 2006) was an Australian actor. He was most famous for playing the long-running role of Terry Sullivan in the Australian television series The Sullivans. After the series ended, other motion picture roles followed, including the hit Phar Lap (1983), and Innocent Prey and Silver City (both 1984). He also appeared in the television film The Wicked in 1987. In 2005, Morgan was diagnosed with motor neuron disease (MND / ALS) and died from the illness eighteen months later.
Norman Yemm
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Norman Yemm (23 March 1933 – 3 February 2015) was an Australian actor, opera singer and sportsman. He was best known on his role as Norm Baker in the television drama, The Sullivans.
Steven Tandy
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Steven Tandy (born 23 October 1952) is an Australian stage, television and film actor. He is best known for playing Tom Sullivan, the second eldest son in the classic Australian television series The Sullivans. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1971, Tandy landed the role in the Australian television series The Sullivans. Since then he has appeared often in film and stage roles. For thirteen years he played the role of Commodore Lassard in the Police Academy Stunt Show at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He returned to NIDA in 1995 to study directing.
Reg Gorman
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Reg Gorman (2 August 1932 - 5 August 2021) was an Australian television actor and comedian, he was known best for his role in TV serial The Sullivans, as Jack Fletcher, and children's series Fergus McPhail as Harry Patterson. Reg was married to an Australian actress Judith Roberts, both parents to actress Kate, Karl and actress Charmaine Gorman, and grandparents to actress Olivia Deeble.
Susan Hannaford
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Susan Hannaford is an Australian soap actress, entrepreneur and award-winning luxury real estate developer. She is best known as Kitty Sullivan of the long running TV series The Sullivans.
Megan Williams
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Megan Williams (11 September 1956 – 17 April 2000) was an Australian actress and singer, who played a continuing role as Alice Sullivan in the television drama The Sullivans, and won a Logie Award for her work in Anzacs (1985). Williams was born in London, England to David and Chin Yu Williams who appeared in a West End production of South Pacific. At six months old, Williams had a minor TV role as an abandoned baby on The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957). Williams' family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia where she pursued an acting career. Williams had an operation for breast cancer in 1997, however the disease was diagnosed again in December 1999 and she died at Darlinghurst Sacred Heart Hospice, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 2000, aged 43.
John Walton
John Walton (1953 - 17 July 2014) was an Australian actor of stage, television, and film, best known for his roles in television soap operas The Young Doctors and The Sullivans.
Saskia Post
Saskia Post (1 August 1960 - 16 March 2020) was a US-born Australian actress and best known for her leading role in the 1986 film Dogs in Space. Saskia Post's Dutch parents moved between America and Japan, before settling in Australia in 1975. Post then commenced a degree course in drama and arts at the University of New South Wales but gave it up after 12 months to attend a full-time course at the Drama Studio in 1981. Shortly after completing the course she obtained her first television role as Julianna Sleven, a Dutch refugee, in The Sullivans. Post died from complications due to a congenital heart issue, at aged 59, at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Olivia Hamnett
Olivia Jane Hamnett (1943 – 1 November 2001) was an English actress known for numerous television roles in Australia, primarily in soap operas and miniseries. including The Sullivans as Meg Fulton in 1979, in Prisoner as Dr. Kate Peterson, who was a supporting cast member in 1981–82 and in Return to Eden 1983 & 1985 as Joanna Randall.
Belinda Giblin
Cast · Known for Sons and Daughters
Sue Belinda Giblin (born 2 March 1950) professionally billed as Belinda Giblin, is an Australian actress. Prominent in theatre and television soap operas, her small screen roles include Kay Webster in The Box (1974), Sister Sue Marriott in The Sullivans (1977–1978), Alison Carr in Sons and Daughters (1985-1987), and her character roles as Cynthia Ross in 1991, and Martha Stewart, the long-presumed dead wife of Alf Stewart, in Home and Away, a role she has played on a recurring basis since 2018. Giblin is also a corporate trainer. From Wikipedia (en), the free encyclopedia
Gary Sweet
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Gary Sweet (born 22 May 1957 in Melbourne) is an Australian film and television actor known for his roles in Alexandra's Project (2003), Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, The Battlers, Bodyline and Stingers. He grew up in Warradale, South Australia and attended Brighton high school in Adelaide. He later obtained a teaching degree and whilst at Sturt Teachers' College took up drama. His first role was in low-budget horror film Nightmares. In the early 1980s, Sweet became recognizable through the on-going role of Leslie 'Magpie' Maddern in the Crawfords television series The Sullivans. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Sweet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ian Jones
Executive Producer · Known for The Sullivans
Ian Jones (22 September 1931 - 31 August 2018) was an Australian writer, director producer and author specialising in the history of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang. Jones had a long career in Australian television, and is best remembered for his writing and directing work at Crawford Productions on shows such as Homicide, Matlock Police, The Bluestone Boys and The Sullivans, and for Against the Wind, a highly successful mini-series, created in collaboration with an Australian writer and producer and Jones's wife, Bronwyn Binns, which explored Australia's convict past.
Noel Trevarthen
Noel Trevarthen (January 10, 1938 - December 3, 1999) was a New Zealander actor. As a young man he moved to the UK and throughout the 1960s appeared in many British films and TV shows. These included Dixon of Dock Green, The Saint and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967). He also had an uncredited role in The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night (1964). Although he moved to Australia and began to work in the industry there, he was back in the UK until the mid 1970s. Back in Australia he had roles in The Sullivans, The Young Doctors and Chopper Squad. He then was cast as Jeff Archer in The Restless Years (1977-79). He had another lengthy spell in series TV when he played Gerard Kent in Carson's Law (1983-84). Just before his stint on Home and Away, he played Malcolm Clarke in Neighbours. He also appeared in A Country Practice, GP, Rafferty's Rules, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys/Young Hercules.
Annie Byron
Annie Byron is an AFI Award-winning Australian film, stage, and television actress best known for Wolf Creek 2, Fran, Muriel's Wedding, and Doing Time for Patsy Cline. After graduating university, she enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art along with Steve Bisley, Debra Lawrence, Robert Menzies, Peter Kingston, Judy Davis, and Mel Gibson. Byron was cast as Lou, the second wife of Harry Sullivan in the Australian television series The Sullivans the year after graduating from NIDA.
Lorraine Bayly
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Lorraine Bayly (born 16 January 1937) is a popular Australian stage and screen actress. She is a direct descendant of Captain Cook's astrologer, William Bayly. Bayly has been a performer since she was a child, and became a professional actress in 1954, having started as a theatre performer. She is a founding member of Sydney's Ensemble Theatre, and best known for her Logie-winning role as Grace (Mum) Sullivan in the long running soap, The Sullivans. She retired from acting due to her health complications in 2019.
Vivean Gray
Cast · Known for The Sullivans
Vivean Gray (born Jean Vivra Gray on 20 July 1924-29 July 2016) is an English actress, who found her niche playing gossipy characters in Australian television series. In her early life, she lived in England but moved to Australia after she had trouble finding any acting opportunities. She portrayed mathematics teacher Miss McGraw in Peter Weir's film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). She played two long-running characters in Australian soap operas, Mrs Ida Jessup in The Sullivans for its entire run, and Mrs Nell Mangel in Neighbours. She appeared in Prisoner as genteel poisoner Edna Pearson in 1984. After the initial showing of her episodes in Australia, a woman claimed the story was based on her real life experience of being accused of poisoning her husband and threatened to sue the producers,Grundy Television. As a result any material that coincided with the woman's story was removed for subsequent episode screenings,including the full Australian DVD release of Prisoner. In 2010 a special DVD release of the full uncut 'Edna' story was released but only in the UK. Gray left her role of Mrs Mangel after receiving abuse from Neighbours fans who could not distinguish fact from fiction. In the story Mrs Mangel moved to St Albans, England. Gray returned to England, and has since retired and leads a very private life.