Acting
Don Crosby
Born 1924-10-29 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Don Crosby (29 October 1924 – 3 December 1985) was one of Australia's most distinguished actors, with a career spanning stage, radio, television and film. He urged the use of Australian actors where possible and spoke out against cuts in ABC funding. In 1980 he was awarded an OAM, and in 1985 he received the Australian Film Institute's Raymond Longford award for services to the industry. He was president of Actors Equity of Australia from 1976 until his death in 1985.
Acting credits
6.5A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
The Picture Show Man
1977
6.7The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978
7.0Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries.
Billy and Percy
1974
10.0Hancock, (who was voted Britain's best-ever comic 35 years after his death) leaves his home in Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, England for warmer, more challenging climes. He encounters the Australian natives on his terms having dragged his attitudes with him halfway across the world.
Hancock Down Under
1972
5.5Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Newsfront
1978
NRNew Guinea Patrol is a 1958 Australian documentary film produced by R. Maslyn Williams.
New Guinea Patrol
1958