Australian actor
John Hargreaves
Born John William Hargreaves
(1945-11-28 ) 28 November 1945Died 8 January 1996(1996-01-08) (aged 50)Sydney , New South Wales, Australia
Occupation Actor
John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.[1]
Background
Hargreaves was educated at Marist College Kogarah .[2] He taught in Mendooran, New South Wales , but moved to Sydney in the 1960s. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1970.[3]
Hargreaves was mainly a film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions. Hargreaves had roles in The Removalists , Don's Party , The Odd Angry Shot , and Malcolm . He played the love interest of Nicole Kidman 's character in Emerald City .
In 1994 he became the first actor to receive the Byron Kennedy Award .[4]
Personal life and death
Although he had exclusively heterosexual relationships while young, by the early 1980s Hargreaves acknowledged and embraced his homosexuality. Between 1984 and 1988, he partnered with French actor Vincent Perrot.[4] [5]
Hargreaves contracted HIV about 1994 and died of AIDS-related complications in a hospice in Sydney on 8 January 1996.[4] Pallbearers at Hargreaves' funeral included actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown .
Filmography
Film
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1969
Pastures of the Blue Crane
TV series
1972
Over There
Robert Kirby
TV series
1972
Behind the Legend
Tom Roberts
TV series
1972–74
Matlock Police
Doug Thompson / Peter Smith / Roy Jones
TV series, 3 episodes: "Everybody Else Has Everything", "The Last Laugh", "A Weekends Entertainment"
1973
Division 4
Jackson/John
TV series, 2 episodes: "Wasteground", "A Wild Wild Rose"
1973
Spyforce
Captain/Navigator
TV series, 2 episodes: "The Trail", "The Journey"
1974
And the Big Men Fly
Achilles Jones
TV series
1974–76
Homicide
Billy Day / David Taylor / Kevin Watson / Steve Brennan
TV series, 4 episodes: "Cowboy Billy Day", "You Hear about the Slasher", "The Egotist", "On The Run"
1975
Silent Number
Terry Lucas
TV series, 1 episode: "His Own Private War"
1976
Power Without Glory
Bill Evans
TV miniseries
1976
Bluey
Eric Yates
TV series, 1 episode: "One Man Band"
1977–80
Young Ramsay
Peter Ramsay
TV series
1982
Last Breakfast in Paradise
1983
Scales of Justice
Constable Borland
TV miniseries
1983
The Dismissal
Dr. Jim Cairns
TV miniseries
1983
Carson's Law
TV series
1988
The Heroes
Ted Carse
TV miniseries
1988
Opération Mozart
Harrington
TV short
1988
The Alien Years
William
TV miniseries
1991
Marie Curie, une femme honourable
Rutherford
TV miniseries
1992
The Leaving of Liverpool
Harry
TV miniseries
1992
Rome Roméo
David Waldberg
1993
G.P.
Dr. Oliver Loyd
TV series, 1 episode: "Infected"
1995
Blue Murder
Chester Porter QC
TV miniseries
Below the line credits
Other credits
Second Best (1994)
completion guarantee services (The Completion Bond Company Inc) Whore (1991)
Theatre
Year
Title
Role
Location
1967
The Choephori (The Libation Bearers)
Chorus Member
UNSW
1968
Sam, The Highest Jumper of Them All, or the London Comedy
New Theatre, Sydney
1968
Postmark Zero
New Theatre, Sydney
1968
America Hurrah
New Theatre, Sydney
1969
The Night of the Iguana
Hank / Herr Fahrenkopf
NIDA Theatre
1969
In the Gloaming, Oh My Darling (student graduation play)
Mr. Birdsong
Jane Street Theatre
1969
Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter
Jane Street Theatre
1970
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Old Tote Theatre
1970
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Old Tote Theatre
1970
Blood Wedding
Old Tote Theatre
1970
Biggles
Biggles
Nimrod Street Theatre
1971
As You Like It
Parade Theatre
1971
The Man of Mode
Parade Theatre
1971
A Month in the Country
Parade Theatre , Canberra Theatre
1971
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Parade Theatre , Canberra Theatre
1971
The National Health or Nurse Norton's Affair
Parade Theatre
1971
Lasseter
Parade Theatre with Old Tote Theatre
1971
The Au Pair Man
Independent Theatre
1972
Jugglers Three
Union Hall, Adelaide
1973
Crete and Sergeant Pepper
Union Hall, Adelaide
1973
Measure for Measure
Union Hall, Adelaide
1975
The Ride Across Lake Constance
Nimrod Theatre
1975
The Importance of Being Earnest
Sydney Opera House
1977
The Training Run
Constable Patrick Reilly
Bondi Pavilion
1980
The Sunny South
Matt Morley
Sydney Opera House
1980
Bent
Max
Playhouse Adelaide
1981
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick
Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1983
Present Laughter
Theatre Royal, Sydney
1990
Love Letters
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III
Sydney Opera House
[6]
References
External links
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