Dallas Doll
Australia/USA, Film, 1994
Strange - the word awful also springs to mind - film about the effect Sandra Bernhard has on an Australian family when she comes to stay. John Frawley (Harry Bassinger) appears briefly as a headmaster, and Frank Gallacher as the parent of the family whose wife has an affair with her.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
John Frawley ..... Headmaster
Frank Gallacher ..... Stephen Sommers
Alethea McGrath ..... Aunt Mary
Day of the Roses, The
Australia, TV Drama, 1998
A recently broadcast TV drama about a train crash.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Carol Burns ..... Receptionist
Daydream Believer
Australia, Film, 19??
Take one ex-Spandau Ballet singer and mix with a ridiculous plot of a girl who thinks she's a horse (and to give her credit she CAN actually talk to horses ...) and you get this film. It's absolutely appalling but vaguely amusing all the same.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Deidre Rubenstein ..... Trish Schultz
Dead Letter Office
Australia, Film, 1998
Alethea McGrath appears briefly in this art-house film as a woman gardening when a worker from the 'Dead Letter Office' (the place when undeliverable letters end up) tries to deliver a letter to her own father.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Alethea McGrath ..... Gardening Woman
Dead Sleep
Australia, Film, 1990
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Christine Amor ..... Sister Kereby
Deadline
Australia/USA, Film, 1981
Film about Sydney being held to ransom as a bomb ticks away in a building - not too bad a film, but not very difficult to guess the plot. Sean Scully appeared briefly as an army officer making threats towards a journalist. It really makes this whole thing worthwhile when when you recognise every single one of the (supposedly!) secret agents!
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Danny Adcock ..... ASIO Agent
Paul Bertram ..... Radar Tracker
Elizabeth Crosby ..... Joanne
Barry Donnelly ..... Sgt Bolas
Michael Duffield ..... Air Vice Marshall
Robert Hughes ..... Fletcher
Norman Kaye ..... ASIO Agent
Sean Scully .....Army Officer
Carole Skinner ..... Sybil
Rob Steele ..... ASIO Agent
Deadly
Australia, Film, 1992
Film about a police corruption investigation when an Aboriginal man is found dead in police custody. Bill Hunter does his usual shifty-bloke stuff, and Babs McMillan appears in the first few seconds as a coroner. Richard Moir is also credited as writer and producer.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Frank Gallacher ..... Mick Thornton
Bill Hunter ..... Vernon Giles
Alan David Lee ..... Constable Barry Blainey
Babs McMillan ..... Coroner
Richard Moir ..... Willie the Pathologist
Julie Nihill ..... Jenny
Peter Thompson ..... Teacher
Death in Brunswick
Australia, Film, 1991
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Deborah Kennedy ..... June
Delinquents, The
Australia, Film, 1989
Basically Kylie Minogue's start to a big film career when she left Neighbours. It didn't work ;) Desiree Smith has a central role as a woman who befriends Kylie's character and then dies in childbirth.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Jonathan Hardy..... Magistrate
Desiree Smith ..... Mavis
Department S
UK, TV Series, 1960s?
Fredric Abbot was a forensic investigator for one episode, and Olivia Hamnett a 'sexy Swedish bikinied blonde' - not my words. Thanks to Robert for the sightings.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Fredric Abbot ..... Forensic Investigator
Olivia Hamnett ..... NK ('The Treasure of the Costa del Sol')
Departure
Australia, 1986
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Serge Lazareff ..... NK
Diana and Me
Australia/UK, Film, 1997
This film must have sounded like an excellent idea when it was thought of, before the death of Diana, but now it just looks a bit tacky, even with the addition of a couple fo scenes laying flowers at one of the royal palaces. Victoria Eagger has a main role in this, but the otehr two just bit parts.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Victoria Eagger..... Carol
John Turnbull..... AA Man
William Zappa ..... Phil
Doctor Down Under
TV Series
Charles Lax wasn't quite sure what Maggie Kirkpatrick did in this series - spinning off from a UK series.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Maggie Kirkpatrick ..... NK
Doctor Who
UK, TV Series, 1960s-
Thanks to Stephen West of Blockade magazine for noticing these ex-PCBHers in various Doctor Who storylines.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
John Lee ..... Alydon (Episode - 'The Daleks' 1963)
Louise Pajo ..... Miss Kelley (Episode - 'Seeds of Death' from 1969)
Ilona Rodgers ..... Carol (Episode - 'The Sensorites')
Doing Time for Patsy Kline
Australia, Film, 1997
Haven't seen this as it only seemed to get a very limited release for the London Film Festival, but apparently Betty Bobbitt has aged rather better than some of her contemporaries :)
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Betty Bobbitt ..... Studio Engineer
Dolphin Cove
Australia, TV, 1989
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Virginia Hey..... Alison Mitchell
Richard Moir ..... Scott Mitchell (Guest)
Dracula - Prince of Darkness
UK, Film, 1966
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell ..... NK
Driven Crazy
Australia
Lena Fiszman e-mailed me to tell me about her own spotting in this programme!
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Lena Fiszman ..... Mrs Christopoulos
Louise Siversen ..... A red-headed publican (according to Andrew Claridge!)
Dusty
Australia, Film, 1982
Old fashioned yarn about a man who buys a dingo thinking it is a dog and goes on to train is as a sheepdog which eats the sheep. Because of this they end up having to leave. Carol Burns plays the wife whose farm they start out on, Peter Aanensen, Terry Trimble, and Reg Gorman play various neighbours and Kim Trengrove plays a barmaid. Nick Holland, credited as Nicholas Holland, plays Carol Burns' son.
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Peter Aanensen..... Mr Brownlees
Carol Burns.....Clara Morrison
Andrea Butcher..... Sally
Reg Gorman..... Watson
Nick Holland..... Jack Morrison
May Howlett..... Mrs Patterson
Pam Murphy..... Mrs Brownlees
Kim Trengrove..... Barmaid
Terry Trimble ..... Commentator
Dynasty
USA, Soap, 1980s
Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Kerry Armstrong ..... NK