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Young Doctors

2015

The spin-off to the original series 'In aller Freundschaft' focuses on the young doctors in a fictional clinic in Erfurt. In this emotional drama series, hospital staffers and patients navigate life's challenges.

Geneviève Lemon

Genevieve Lemon is an Australian actress who has appeared in a number of soap operas – as Zelda Baker in The Young Doctors, Marlene "Rabbit" Warren in Prisoner and Brenda Riley in Neighbours. She showed her comedic and singing talents in the televised revue show Three Men and a Baby Grand. Lemon has also appeared in a number of films directed by Jane Campion – Sweetie, The Piano and Holy Smoke. She played in the stage production "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – the Musical" as the barmaid and owner of the Broken Hill Hotel, Shirley. Her first CD, with her band, is called "Angels in the City". It is a live recording of a concert she performed in the Studio at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Singing around the House series. Genevieve Lemon is currently on stage at London's Victoria Palace Theatre, portraying Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot the Musical, a role she performed firstly in Sydney then Melbourne. On 21 January 2008 she won the Best Actress in a Musical award at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards. Lemon won a 2008 Helpmann Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Billy Elliot the Musical. Lemon has worked extensively for a number of major state theatre companies in Australia. Lemon began her career with the Leichhardt-based amateur theater company, The Rocks Players. Description above from the Wikipedia article Genevieve Lemon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kyle T. Heffner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kyle Troy Heffner is an American television and film actor. Heffner graduated from Northwestern University. After graduation he moved to Los Angeles and met Garry Marshall, who cast him in Young Doctors in Love (1982). Heffner also appeared in the films Flashdance (1983), The Woman in Red (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Spellbinder (1988), and When Harry Met Sally (1989). Heffner has appeared in numerous television series, as well as TV pilots, TV guest spots, commercials, and more films. Heffner resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyle T. Heffner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Nicholas Mele

Nicholas Mele is an American actor who has starred in many movies and on television. His first movie role was in the 1976 movie The Ritz. Other movie roles include Some Kind of Hero (1982) and Young Doctors in Love (1982). His most well-known film role was in the 1988 hit horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master as Dennis Johnson. A year later, he reprised his role in the hit sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. His most recent movie is the 2003 film The Great Gabble.

Tottie Goldsmith

Caroline "Tottie" Goldsmith (born 27 August 1962) is an Australian actress and singer. She was a founding member of the Chantoozies, a pop group formed in 1986. In the early 1980s, Caroline Goldsmith acted in the Australian television series The Young Doctors, Starting Out, Prisoner, Saturdee, and The Henderson Kids. She made a guest appearance on a 1989 episode of Mission: Impossible, which was filmed in Australia. She is the niece of British-Australian singer and actress, Olivia Newton-John.

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.

Hillary Horan

Cast · Known for Happy Days

Hillary Horan was born on June 8, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Young Doctors in Love (1982), Mork & Mindy (1978) and Happy Days (1974). She has been married to Stu Krieger since 1981. They have two children.

Reg Watson

Creator · Known for Neighbours, Sons and Daughters

Reginald 'Reg' Watson (27 August 1926 - 8 October 2019) was an Australian television producer, screenwriter and executive. Watson was executive producer on the British soap opera Crossroads and created Australian media exports serials such as Prisoner, Neighbours, The Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters. Watson was a private man and rarely gave interviews. He retired in 1992 and did not produce any new television drama from then onwards.

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.

Alan Dale

Cast · Known for The O.C., Neighbours, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale developed a love of theatre and also became a rugby player. After retiring from the sport he took on a number of professions to support his family, before deciding to become a professional actor at the age of 27. With work limited in New Zealand, Dale moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, a part he played for eight years. The character is the role Dale is most associated with in Australia and the United Kingdom. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received. After leaving Neighbours, Dale became typecast as Robinson in Australia and struggled to find work. His career was revitalised after he relocated to the United States in 2000. Since then he has had roles in many American series including prominent parts in The O.C. (as Caleb Nichol) and Ugly Betty (as Bradford Meade), as well as recurring and guest roles in Lost, 24, NCIS, ER, The West Wing, The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen. Dale has also appeared in minor roles in films such as Star Trek Nemesis, Hollywood Homicide and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as well as the London West End production of Spamalot. Dale has been married to former Miss Australia Tracey Pearson since 1990 and has four children.

Vincent Ball

Vincent Martin Ball OAM (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian-born retired character actor of radio, stage and screen, active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain and then his native Australia. He has also authored a number of books. He is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and TV movies, including A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Phar Lap, Muriel's Wedding and The Man Who Sued God. He appeared in numerous TV roles, primarily in cameo guest roles, but had recurring roles in serials like Rush, The Young Doctors, A Country Practice and Home and Away. Vincent Ball has also worked variously in theatre, including Shakespeare, with productions of Henry IV and Romeo and Juliet and a musical based on Charles Dickens famous novel Great Expectations. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rob Steele

Rob Steele (born 1940/1941 - May 14, 2022) was an Australian film and television character actor who appeared in Australian films spanning four decades and he racked up more than 80 credits in TV and film during that time. Steele began acting in the early 1970s and had guest roles in TV shows such as Homicide, Matlock Police, The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Prisoner, Carson's Law, Sons and Daughters, E-Street, A Country Practice, All Saints, Police Rescue, The Flying Doctors and Blue Heelers. He also appeared in Muriel's Wedding (1994). His final on-screen appearances were in 2007.

Michael Richards

Cast · Known for Seinfeld, Bee Movie

Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor, comedian, writer and television producer, best known for his portrayal of the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on the television sitcom Seinfeld. Richards began his career as a stand up comedian, first stepping into a national spotlight when he was featured on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special. He went on to become a series regular on ABC's Fridays. Prior to Seinfeld, he made numerous guest appearances on a variety of television shows including Cheers, Night Court, Miami Vice and St. Elsewhere. His film credits include So I Married an Axe Murderer, Airheads, Young Doctors in Love, Problem Child, Coneheads and UHF. During the run of Seinfeld, he made a guest appearance in Mad About You. After Seinfeld, Richards starred in his own sitcom, The Michael Richards Show, which lasted less than one season. After his series was cancelled, Richards returned to his roots performing stand up comedy. After inciting some media furor in late 2006 over explosively addressing audience members at a comedy show with repeated racial epithets, Richards announced his retirement from stand-up in 2007. Most recently, Richards appeared as himself in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009, acting alongside his fellow Seinfeld cast members for the first time since Seinfeld's finale.

Ina Balin

Cast · Known for Quincy, M.E.

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ina Balin (November 12, 1937 – June 20, 1990) was an American actress on Broadway and in film. Born as Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, she first appeared on television on The Perry Como Show. She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the "Theatre World Award" for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. That same year, she landed her first film role in The Black Orchid, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn. A year later, Balin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress — Motion Picture for her performance opposite Paul Newman in From the Terrace. She also appeared in The Young Doctors. In 1961, she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. Co-starring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy, Balin also had a secondary, but important part in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. She co-starred with Elvis Presley in his 1969 film Charro! Balin guest-starred on dozens of television shows, including Bonanza, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, Ironside, Quincy, M.E. and Magnum, P.I. She appeared with Joseph Cotten, Fernando Lamas and Dean Jagger in the 1969 made-for-television movie The Lonely Profession. In 1970, Balin toured Vietnam with the USO on the first of many trips to the war-torn region. She co-starred in the 1971 film The Projectionist, which marked the screen debut of Rodney Dangerfield. In 1975, she aided in the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon; eventually, she adopted three of these orphaned children. In 1980, she played herself in a made-for-television movie based on these experiences, The Children of An Lac. While working on The Children of An Lac, she became acquainted with Christy Marx, who at the time worked as a producer's liaison for various television programs. According to Marx, she used Balin's story as a basis for a character in the animated show Jem when she later became a writer. The character of Ba Nee is based on Balin's adopted daughter, Ba-Nhi. Ba Nee's obsession with and struggle to find her birth father are the focus of several episodes of Jem. She co-starred in the comedy The Comeback Trail with the lead actor and director from The Projectionist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ina Balin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Toni Hudson

Toni Hudson is an American actress and producer born on November 9, 1960, in San Bernardino, California, USA. She began her acting career in 1982 and has since appeared in numerous films and television shows, including "Young Doctors in Love" (1982), "Just One of the Guys" (1985), and "Charlie's Christmas Wish" (2020). Hudson has been married three times, to Judd Tyler Mintz, Dirk Benedict, and Peter S. Rizzo.

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. ​

Katy Brinson

Kathleen Jean "Katy" Brinson is an Australian actress, remembered for her roles in television soap operas. Her performing career began as a ballet dancer in the 1970s. Brinson then moved to Sydney to attend the National Institute of Dramatic Art. She played Judy Sutton in The Young Doctors, Jill Clark in Prisoner and Wendy Armstrong in Sons and Daughters. She had a recurring role as public defender Lisa Blake in the legal drama Rafferty's Rules.

Julieanne Newbould

Julieanne Newbould (born 1957) is an Australian actress who first came to prominence in the 1970s. Newbould was 16 years old when she played Karen in the 1974 ABC telemovie Lindsay’s Boy. She then worked in several television series for the Grundy Organisation, and in 1977 played a guest role in the soap opera, The Young Doctors, and then became a popular original cast member of The Restless Years. Since 1999, Newbould's partner has been former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating.

Harvey Miller

Producer · Known for Love, American Style

Harvey was born as Harvey Skolnik. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. Harvey started his career in New York City as comedian Sandy Baron's manager. Harvey furthered his career by working with his close longtime friends: Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall, Albert Brooks, James L. Brooks and Jerry Belson, Harvey helped create Love American Style with Bill Idelson. Harvey also loved meeting celebrities so when he was head writer and director of TV's The Odd Couple, his invigoration of the show by introducing big name talent served dual purposes. Harvey was responsible for integrating the following people into the show: Howard Cosell, Bobby Riggs, Billie Jean King, Paul Williams, Betty White, Allen Ludden and many others. Harvey first met Burt Reynolds on Cannonball Run. There is a very famous episode of The Dating Game whereby the bachelorette, due to her attraction to his charm and razor sharp humor, chooses Harvey over Burt Reynolds. When the bachelorette meets and sees that she didn't choose Burt, she is devastated. When the host announces her date as Harvey Skolnik from Plainfield, NJ she Is crestfallen. Harvey was a fairly attractive man, but the meet became enormously funny. From that day on when attending industry events or parties, he would always ask if Reynolds was going to be there, so that Reynolds couldn't vengefully express his embarrassment for losing to Harvey. Harvey bought and lived in Harrison Ford's old house. Before he became a movie star, Harrison was a carpenter and built a lovely country style home in LA. Harvey made classic cameos in The Odd Couple as the penguin in the bathtub in the nude off Broadway show episode whereby Felix secretly attends his girlfriend's only to embarrass her by covering her up when she appears naked. He also made classic cameo appearances in the Laverne and Shirley whereby he played a shyster producer who steals Laverne's heirloom earrings. Since he was so close with Penny Marshall, Albert Brooks, Garry Marshall, Jerry Belson and others he always made brief mostly comedic appearances in their TV Shows and Movies. A few of them included: Young Doctors in Love, Beaches, Modern Romance, Awakenings, and Others. Harvey was always the life of every party and set. He was a unique talent and irrepressible spirit. This world is now a far less interesting place without him. He will be sorely missed.

Abigail

Cast · Known for Sons and Daughters

Abigail became Australia's undisputed number 1 female sex symbol through her role as virginal blonde Bev Houghton in Number 96 (1972). English born Abigail was educated in France. Her mother was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) of Dutch Burgher/Eurasian ethnicity. Abigail came to Australia in 1971 and played female lead in "There's a Girl in My Soup" in Perth. Moved to Sydney and got noticed in a TV commercial in which she played a Marilyn Monroe type bombshell opposite Phil Silvers. Landed the role of Bev in Number 96. Was an original cast member and one of the most popular stars of the series, though Abigail quickly tired of the monotonous storylines for Bev (she was a shy virgin and the scriptwriters conspired to simply throw her into bed with a series of men) and after several public disagreements with the show's producers left suddenly in June 1973. The role of Bev was hastily recast, with the new actress taking over mid-episode. Abigail was the only major star of the series not to appear in the movie version released in 1974. Abigail had difficulty gaining many serious roles after leaving the series, and appeared in several bit-parts closely following the contours of her sex-symbol image in various sex-comedy films of the mid 1970s. Later appeared in several comedy roles on the stage, played a prim French teacher in school based drama Class of '74 (1974) and a super-efficient secretary in the early episodes of hospital soap The Young Doctors (1976). Was finally lured back to Number 96 in 1976 briefly playing a new character called Eve who was to appear in a proposed spin-off series with Elaine Lee though the new series was never picked-up. Retired from acting and lived on a banana plantation in Queensland. Publicly criticized the increasingly overt sex-scenes and violence featured in the later episodes of Number 96. In 1984 after a long absence from the limelight was cast as comic heroine Caroline Morrell in television soap Sons and Daughters (1982) by producers desperate to revamp the show after the departure of the series most famous character Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton portrayed by Rowena Wallace. Abigail's character was a great success and the show survived a further three years with Caroline quickly becoming one of the central characters. She continued with the series until its demise in 1987. Later appeared in guest roles on TV shows such as the long-running series Neighbours (1985), and was added to the cast of floundering series Chances (1991) in a last ditch attempt to spice up its quickly fading popularity. In return to her sex-comedy roots, Abigail's Chances character was a sex-therapist named Bambi Chute.

James Robinson

Cast · Known for Braveheart

James Robinson is a Scottish actor/producer born in Glasgow. Debuted as the young William Wallace in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, he has gone on to appear in Danny Boyle’s highly acclaimed "Babylon" and Neil Jordan’s historical epic "The Borgias" with Jeremy Irons and Gina McKee. He has guest-starred on BBC’s "Doctors" and "Casualty", and as Greg Edgars in Sony/Starz’s "Outlander". Most recently he has wrapped in filming "Washington" for the History Channel US and Icon Films, starring as Alexander Hamilton.

Aimée Cassettari

Cast · Known for Practical Magic 2

A graduate of Birmingham University and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Aimee has worked as an Actor in theatre and film. Credits include: The American Dream 2.0 (The Young Vic), Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright), BBC Doctors. Prior to drama school, Aimee worked in Television Production as a Researcher for the BBC and as a Junior Script Editor at Left Bank Pictures

Ty Tennant

Ty Peter Tennant (né Martin-Moffett; born 27 March 2002) is a British television actor. He is known for his roles as Tom Gresham in the science fiction series War of the Worlds (2019–present) and young Aegon II Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022). Tennant had a brief cameo in the 2013 comedy spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. He later made his feature film debut in 2019 as a younger version of Tom Glynn-Carney's Christopher Wiseman in Tolkien. That same year, he began starring in the science fiction series War of the Worlds as Tom Gresham, the younger brother of Daisy Edgar-Jones' character Emily. He also made a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC One soap opera Casualty. In 2021, Tennant and Sebastian Croft were cast as the Dead Boy Detectives Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland respectively in season 3 of the DC Universe series Doom Patrol. He had a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days. Tennant once again played a young Tom Glynn-Carney, this time as Aegon II Targaryen in the 2022 HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel and adaptation of George R. R. Martin's companion book Fire and Blood. In 2023, Tennant played the role of Raffy in Channel 4's standalone drama Consent.

Jasmine Hyde

Cast · Known for Angel Has Fallen

Jasmine Hyde is an English actress who has appeared on stage, radio, film and television. She is best known for playing the young Hilda Rumpole in BBC Radio 4's Rumpole of the Bailey between 2009 and 2019, and Leonie Snell in The Archers (2014-19). Jasmine's television roles include Doctors, Father Brown, Beyond Paradise, Casualty, Holby City, Coronation Street, and Murder in Provence. In 2017 she played the lead role in Gary Sinyor’s psychological thriller The Unseen.