RAC Advert

David Bradshaw plays John Wright the RAC Assessor in this advert according to Peter Criddle.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
David Bradshaw

Race the Sun

USA/Australia, Film, 1996

Film about a group of American high school students who enter a car race across the Australian outback.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Bill Hunter ..... Commisioner Hawkes

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Annette Andre ..... Jeannie Hopkirk

Raw FM

Australia, TV Series, 1997

TV Series about a radio station. Nadine Garner plays a blind DJ, Zelda.

Nadine's Raw Talent - Nadine Garner on Raw FM.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Nadine Garner ...... Zelda

Redheads

Australia, Film, 1992

Sally MacKenzie is on the other side of the bars but still a crim! She's a murderer in charge of a youth detention centre who knows that one of her charges has a video tape of her murdering her lover but she doesn't know which one it is ...

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Sally MacKenzie ..... Warden Zelda

Restless Years, The

Australia, TV Series, 1977

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Julieanne Newbould ..... Alison Clark

Return Home

Australia, Film, 1990

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Mickey Camilleri ..... Judy
Frankie J Holden ..... Steve

Return to Eden

I know nothing about this at all, although I think it may have been mentioned in Hilary Kingsley's book. It's to be shown on Granada Plus in the UK in June so I'll tape it then and have a full cast list.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Olivia Hamnett ..... Fashion Designer
Nicola/Nicki Paull ..... NK
Wendy Playfair ..... Someone's mother
Jim Smillie ..... Dan Marshall
Peta Toppano ..... Jillie

Return to Snowy River

Australia, Film, 1988

A sequel to the film 'The Man From Snowy River'. I now have a full set of end credits but couldn't bear to watch the film again so I can't tell you much about the characters.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Bruce Clarkson ..... Bystander at Harrison's
Peter Cummins ..... Jake
Cornelia Frances ..... Mrs Darcy
Alan Hopgood ..... Simmons
Bryan Marshall ..... Hawker
John Raaen ..... Lout in bar
Wynn Roberts ..... Priest
Christopher Stevenson ..... Harrison's waiter
Greg Stroud ..... Jockey
Sigrid Thornton ..... Jessica
Peter Tulloch ..... Bystander outside church
Nick Waters ..... Announcer at Harrison's

Richmond Hill

Australia, Soap

Another of the short running soaps that ran in the late 1980s. I remember very little about it, as it was on while I was at school ;)

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Paula Duncan ..... Janet Bryant
Tim Elston ..... Warren Bryant
Maggie Kirkpatrick ..... Ivy Hackett
Amanda Muggleton ..... Connie

Rikky and Pete

Australia, Film, 1988

A sort of sequel from Nadia Tass to the film Malcolm, but this one seems to have been made more for money than the sheer joy of the quirkiness of it all. There are still some groovy gadgets but this time they are built to be useful rather than fun. Nina Landis has one of the title roles, Bill Hunter is a cop chasing after her and her brother, and Alan Hopgood yet again does not get to utter a word but laughs instead.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Rob Baxter ..... Truckyard Man
John Bishop ..... Weighbridge Man
Don Bridges ..... Assayer
Burt Cooper ..... Gallery Weirdo
Peter Cummins ..... Delahunty
Charles Dance ..... Gallery Stuffed Shirt
Peter Drake ..... Gallery Stuffed Shirt
Peter Flett ..... Metro Manager
Alan Hopgood ..... Laughing Uncle
Denzil Howson ..... Gallery Stuffed Shirt
Bill Hunter ..... Whitstead
Nina Landis ..... Rikky Menzies
Paula Langlands ..... Laboratory Tart
John Lee ..... High Ranking Officer
John Raaen ..... Harris
Glen Robbins ..... Newspaper foreman
Graham Rouse ..... Drunk at Winton
Nadia Tass ..... (Director)

Ripper, The

USA / Australia, TV Series, 1997

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Olivia Hamnett ..... NK

Road to Nhill, The

Australia, Film, 1997

Another of those films that only Australia seems to be able to do - the apparent non-event spun out into a film. A car carrying four members of a bowling team crashes, although all of them appear to escape unharmed. The situation then descends into chaos when the emergency services and relatives drive about for the day just missing each other and the crash site. The film ends sadly, though, with one of the women dead and another one scared to leave the house. Three of our lady bowlers and an assortment of townspeople and relatives are ex-Prisoners.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Peter Aanensen ..... Mac
Don Bridges ..... Keith
Lois Collinder ..... Jan
Robin Cuming ..... Frank
Graham Dow ..... Fred
Bill Hunter ..... Bob
Patricia Kennedy ..... Jean
Monica Maughan ..... Nell
Marilyn O'Donnell ..... Sandra
Lois Ramsay ..... Carmel
Pepe Trevor ..... Anne
Rod Williams ..... Ned

Robbery Under Arms

Australia, TV Movie, 1983

I have absolutely NO IDEA(!) of the plot in this as I watched it dubbed into German, but it is a kind of 3-part series of TV Movies a bit like Snowy River - The McGregor Saga, only with a bit more crime.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Andy Anderson ..... George
Don Barker ..... Wilson
David Bradshaw ..... Goring
Deborah Coulls ..... Kate
Peter Cummins ..... Moran
Elaine Cusick ..... Mum
Graham Duckett ..... Gambling Curate
Michael Duffield ..... Mr Falkland
Peter Dunn ..... Jones
Marcus Eyre ..... Host, Border Shanty
Susan Guerin ..... Miss Falkland
Jack Harris ..... Big Warder
John Kelly ..... Old Convict

Romper Stomper

Australia, Film, 1992

Film about fights between a load of Nazis and Vietnamese in Australia. Only very minor Prisoner spottings, but a good film.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Don Bridges ..... Harold
Steve Millichamp ..... Pommy Bill
John Raaen ..... Plain Clothes Policeman

Round the Twist

Australia, Children's TV, 1992

Two series of this were made, with very different casts. Each episode was a different story, all revolving around the Twist family who lived in a haunted lighthouse. Richard Moir was the father, and Robyn Gibbes played the schoolteacher in both series. Tommy Dysart appeared for a split second in the episode 'Copy Cat' as a bus driver, noticable only for his broad Scottish accent!

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Peter Bensley ..... Father of Merman (Guest)
Peter Culpan ..... Photographer (Guest)
Tommy Dysart ..... Bus Driver (Guest)
Sheila Florance ..... Madame Fortune (Guest)
Jan Friedl ..... Mrs Gribble (2nd series)
Robyn Gibbes ..... Fay (Schoolteacher)
Billie Hammerberg ..... Glenda - School Secretary ('Pink Bow Tie')
Judith McGrath ..... Mrs Gribble (1st series)
Esme Melville ..... Gribble's mother ('Pink Bow Tie')
Mark Mitchell ..... Mr Gribble (2nd series)
Richard Moir ..... Tony Twist

Ryan

Australia, TV, 1976

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Rod Mullinar ..... NK