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Water Rats
1996
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
Andrew Kelly
Andrew is an Australian screenwriter best known for penning episodes in The Secret Life of Us, Water Rats, All Saints, Murder Call and Always Greener.
Frank Carson
Hugh Francis "Frank" Carson KSG (6 November 1926 – 22 February 2012) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas. He was a member of the entertainment charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.
Sophie Heathcote
Cast · Known for Water Rats
Sophie Heathcote (25 December 1972 – 4 January 2006) was an Australian actress, known for her regular television serial roles, including A Country Practice, Water Rats and Grass Roots. Heathcote died in Connecticut, USA, from an aneurysm at aged 33. She had also been suffering from skin and pancreatic cancer. She was survived by her husband, their daughter, and their son.
Anthony Martin
Cast · Known for Water Rats, The Uprising
Anthony Martin is an actor, known for Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002), Water Rats (1996) and The Junction Boys (2002).
Victoria Madden
Vicki has worked extensively both overseas and in Australia, with credits that include “The Bill”, Lynda La Plante’s “Trial and Retribution”, “The Clinic” , “Halifax fp”, “Water Rats” and many more. Vicki also worked for two years for the Nine Network as a Script Executive to give her the skills to develop concepts that sell. Vicki is often asked to work as a Story Consultant and has developed concept documents for leading Producers in Australia. She has also been brought onto television shows in order to re-boot them or re-structure them due to failing ratings. Vicki Madden is now offering her services to clients & students, and in turn you will receive in depth notes, instruction and guidance as to how your script can the best it can be. Vicki utilizes online classes as well as skype. Her course Into the Box is touring Australia in 2012, to all the major Australian cities, and some regional areas as well! Send Sweet Potato Films an email via our contact page to register your interest & secure a place for these writing events.
Joss McWilliam
Cast · Known for Water Rats
Joss McWilliam (born 1959) is an Australian film and television actor for over 30 years. He is known for Water Rats (1996), A Thousand Skies (1985) and Pacific Drive (1996).
Peter Carmody
Peter Carmody is an Australian actor, director and writer. Carmody left NIDA at the end of 1981 to freelance as an actor/director and writer. Since then he has appeared in countless stage plays. For TV series, Carmody has worked on Water Rats, All Saints, Wildside, A country Practice, Home and Away, E Street, and Sons and Daughters and also appeared for films including Bliss (1985), Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987), Brake Fluid (1970).
Scott Burgess
Cast · Known for Water Rats
Scott Burgess (14 July 1958 – 6 May 2016) was an Australian actor, best known for his role as Dave McCall in police drama Water Rats from 1996 to 1999. In 2008, Burgess told A Current Affair about the problems of his marriage, and how he was left to work in a boat yard. He returned to television in four episodes of Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities in 2009. He died in 2016 following a heart attack at aged 56.
Andrew James Mead
Andrew James Mead is an actor, known for Changi (2001), Annabellum: The Curse of Salem (2019) and Water Rats (1996).
Mouche Phillips
Mouche Phillips (born 1973) is an Australian actress and theatre producer, best known for her television roles as Aviva "Viv" Newton in Home and Away (1989–90) and Eva Sykes in police procedural series Water Rats (2000–01). She is currently the owner and creative director of Ripe Productions and took the position of creative producer for Byron Theatre in 2010.
Mitchell McMahon
Mitchell McMahon (September 30, 1981) is an Australian actor. He appeared as a teenager in the 1990s Australian TV shows included The Girl from Tomorrow, A Country Practice, E Street, G.P., Police Rescue, Water Rats, Wildside, All Saint and Home and Away.
Ritchie Singer
Ritchie Singer is an Australian actor. Singer portrayed executive producer Richard Shapiro in the fictionalized 2005 American television movie/docudrama Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty. He also played Terence James 'Terry' Madigan in season three of the Australian police procedural Water Rats (1998). Singer graduated from NIDA in 1983.
Rob Carlton
Cast · Known for Apex
Rob Carlton (born 4 May 1971) is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for writing and starring in the comedy series Chandon Pictures. Carlton has been a professional actor since the age of 14 and has appeared in many television series from Young Ramsay to A Country Practice, Home and away, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Fireflies, McLeod's Daughters and All Saints. In the mid-1990s, Carlton was living in Los Angeles. He accepted the role of continuity coordinator for an Australian film in Melbourne. Carlton is also a professional speaker, who has worked as a master of ceremonies, compère, facilitator and motivational speaker.
Helene Joy
Cast · Known for Murdoch Mysteries
Hélène Joy (born October 21, 1978) is an Australian–Canadian television actress. Her credits include roles in the television series MVP, Durham County, The Secret World of Og, An American in Canada, ReGenesis, Pearlie, and Murdoch Mysteries. Joy was born and raised in Australia, studying at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. She subsequently joined the Bell Shakespeare Company in Sydney and the Melbourne Theatre Company, and had minor roles in Australian television series such as Water Rats, Big Sky and Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, before moving to Vancouver.
Tony Morphett
Writer · Known for A Country Practice, Blue Heelers, The Flying Doctors
Anthony David Morphett (10 March 1938 – 2 June 2018), known under the professional pen name Tony Morphett, was an Australian screenwriter, who created or co-created many Australian television series, including Dynasty, Certain Women, Sky Trackers, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Above the Law and Rain Shadow. Morphett wrote or co-wrote seven feature films, ten telemovies, twelve mini-series, and hundreds of episodes of television drama, as well as devising or co-devising seven TV series.
Imogen Annesley
Imogen Annesley is an Australian actress and director who is perhaps best known for her performances in the films Playing Beatie Bow, Howling III: The Marsupials and Queen of the Damned. Annesley made her feature film debut as a teenager, with the leading role of Abigail Kirk in the 1986 Australian film Playing Beatie Bow. A time travel drama based on the novel by Ruth Park and directed by Donald Crombie, it was a failure at the box-office despite a number of positive reviews of the film and Annesley's performance. The film proved more popular on video release. Her television credits include: Families, Water Rats, Farscape, Above the Law, Blue Water High and East of Everything. Annesley is also the lady with the child in the Jimmy Barnes 1987 Australian music video, I'm Still On Your Side, filmed at Sydney's picturesque Hawkesbury River Train Station.
Sonia Todd
Sonia Todd (born 1959) is an Australian actress. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sonia has worked extensively in television, theatre, and film. Whilst at NIDA, she was one of the group of students (including Baz Luhrmann) who devised the play Strictly Ballroom in which she subsequently starred. She most recently appeared in a regular role on the long-running series Home and Away for the Seven Network and in the ABC series Janet King. Her other notable television credits include GP, Come In Spinner, A Country Practice, Mother and Son, Over The Hill, Heat, Water Rats, Simone De Beauvoir’s Babies, Halifax F.P. and All Saints.
Ian Gilmour
Director · Known for The Flying Doctors
Ian Gilmour is a New Zealander actor and director who has worked mostly in Australia. He has acted in several Australian television series, most notably as Kevin Burns in Prisoner in 1980. Other credits include The Box, Chopper Squad, Kingswood Country, Waterloo Station, A Country Practice and The Flying Doctors. And his film credits including: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The Odd Angry Shot, Silver City, The Coca-Cola Kid, Malpractice and A Cry in the Dark. He subsequently moved away from acting to become a director. His directorial credits in television include: The Flying Doctors, Heartbreak High, Water Rats, McLeod's Daughters, Flipper and Home and Away.
Marianne Howard
Cast · Known for E Street
Marianne Howard is an Australian retired actress and currently the founder and dance choreographer of a dancing school, best known as the plucky red-head Alice Sullivan on television soap opera, E Street. She is the mother of Australian actor Benson Jack Anthony. After the final of E Street, Marianne retired from professional acting with only four more on screen roles across the next 30 years on the episodes of Water Rats, Always Greener, Wonderful and Diary of an Uber Driver in 2019 as Liz.
Alexa Wyatt
Writer · Known for E Street
Alexa Wyatt is an Australian television scriptwriter, story liner, script editor and script producer on series including Janet King, Rescue Special Ops, All Saints, McLeod’s Daughters, Water Rats, Police Rescue, E Street, Heartbreak High, Big Sky, Home and Away, and Neighbours.
Margaret Morgan
Margaret Morgan is an Australian screenwriter and novelist. She studied and practiced law and later science, having graduated in both at Macquarie University. After practising in criminal law, Margaret Morgan became a professional writer, working as a screenwriter and script editor in television for many well-regarded Australian drama series (including Water Rats, A Country Practice and GP). Her speculative fiction novel, The Second Cure, is published by Penguin Random House Australia and was shortlisted for a number of major literary awards.
Scott McRae
Scott McRae (born July 28, 1964) is an Australian actor, entertainer, travel writer and producer. Scott studied at the Sydney Acting School for three years, graduating from his Diploma course in April 1991. With an extensive background in the television and entertainment industry, starring in high profile TV programs such as E-Street, Sea Patrol, Water Rats, All Saints and the hit children’s programs, VIDIOT (ABC), Now You See It and Download for Channel Nine. McRae has passion and enthusiasm second to none, and from 2000-2010 viewers across the WIN/Nine/NBN/Imparja Networks found his infectious energy catching as he has taken them from one cornerof the content to another as host and producer of Destinations with Scott McRae, Postcards Australia and most recently A Taste of Travel for the Ten Network.
Simone Buchanan
Simone Buchanan (born 11 March 1968) is an Australian film and television actress, and television director. She is best known for her television roles as Debbie Kelly in Australia's most successful and longest running sitcom Hey Dad...! Simone Buchanan went on to star alongside Deborah Lee Furness in internationally acclaimed feature film Shame. Simone has also starred in many television dramas including Neighbours, McLeod's Daughters, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, All Saints, Pacific Drive, A Country Practice, Sons and Daughters and Upper Middle Bogan. Her film credits include: Forced Entry, Push, High Country, Doctors and Nurses , My Brilliant Career, Patrick alongside Rachel Griffiths and Charles Dance and most recently Boar starring alongside Huge Sheridan and John Jarratt. She has been married to Brett Smith since April 5, 2008. They have two children.