Qui est sorti avec Bunney Brooke?

Bunney Brooke (9 January 1921 – 2 April 2000), born Dorothy Jean Cronin, was an Australian actress, creator, producer, director, designer, playwright, and casting agent, best known as one of the early faces of Australian television.

Brooke had joined the Australian army at 18, and started her career in London, like her future co-star in Number 96 Ron Shand had worked as a clown in the circus, in the years after WWII she started her professional career in repertory theatre

She became known for her television, movie, theatre acting and comedy roles in Australia including the children's show The Magic Circle Club and her role of Flo Patterson in the soap opera and movie release version of Number 96 in the 1970s (a role for which she won a Silver Logie Award), although her role in 96, made Brooke a household name in Australia, because of that show's limited screening relating to its content, the program didn't export well, hence at that time she didnt gain a large international presence.

In Brooke's later career, she appeared in the television soap opera E Street as Vi Patchett and in the children's television series Round the Twist as lighthouse owner Nell Rickards (1989 and 1992).

Lire la suite...

Patricia Ethel McDonald (1 August 1921 – 10 March 1990) known professionally as Miss Patricia McDonald, and subsequently as Pat McDonald was an Australian Gold Logie winning actress of radio, stage and screen, primarily in small screen, her performance career spanned some 60 years in the industry.

McDonald was active in the industry as a child since 1928, and worked early in her career in England. having appeared in a few early Australian films, and featured in numerous theatre roles for many years. In her latter years she appeared primarily in radio and TV in soap opera's and became best known locally for her role in serial Number 96 as the malapropism speaking stickybeak, pensioner Dorrie Evans, appearing opposite co-star vaudevillian and early star Ron Shand as her hen-pecked husband Herb. "Dorrie and Herb", were essentially comic characters.

McDonald post-96 she found prominence with the TV soap opera Sons and Daughters as former madam Aunty Fiona Thompson, whom she based on Auntie Mame.

Lire la suite...