
Acting
Janet Kingsbury
Born 1939-01-01 · England, UK
Janet Kingsbury (born 1939) is an English-born Australian actress. To viewers of a certain age in Australia, Janet is best remembered for her 17 year stint (1969–1986) on Play School. Her other acting credits include an early appearance on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, The Restless Years, A Country Practice and All Saints. Her most recent TV credit was in a 2016 episode of Doctor Doctor. Janet was married to TV director Arch Nicholson, but he died in 1990 aged just 49.
Acting credits
7.0A drama set in the isolated, mining town of Newman in northwest Australia, where men outnumber women fifty to one and the human flashpoint is set low. A new miner, David, is attracted to the young wife of his older boss, Foxy, whose jealousy is renowned amongst the locals.
Flashpoint
1972
5.7In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
Dark Age
1987
5.3Private Detective Mike Hayes is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets strange teen David Prentice, who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows, the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
Early Frost
1982
7.0In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
Let the Balloon Go
1976
10.0Two childhood friends who marry brothers in the Army soon discover that their lives will take a different path from what they first expected.
Army Wives
1987