Syd Conabere

Syd Conabere
Born
Sydney Leicester Conabere,

8 July 1918
Footscray, Victoria
Died (aged 90)
Sydney, Australia
OccupationActor
Years activeFilm and television 1957–2002, theatre 1938–1989
SpouseElizabeth "Betty" Howden (m. 1945)
ChildrenPrudence, Sally

Sydney Leicester Conabere (8 July 1918 – 15 July 2008) was an Australian actor. He was notable for his work in theatre, film and television drama in a career spanning more than fifty years. In 1962 Conabere won the Logie award for Best Actor, for his performance in the television play The One Day of the Year.[1]

Biography

Conabere was born in 1918 and worked prolifically as a stage actor from 1938 to 1989, particularly with the Melbourne Theatre Company[2][3] and Melbourne Little Theatre, sharing the stage (and applause) with Irene Mitchell in, for example, Lilian Hellman's The Little Foxes.[4]

Conabere had an extensive career as a character actor from the 1950s to the 2000s,[2] regularly appearing in popular Australian television serials, including Emergency, Matlock Police and Homicide. He worked for a short period in the United Kingdom, appearing in the drama serials Z Cars and Sherlock Holmes,[5] the comedy Please Sir!, and in the crime film Man of Violence.[6]

In the 1980s Conabere reached a wider international audience, making occasional appearances in two long running Australian soap operas, in Neighbours as Dan Ramsay[7] and as Doug Palmer in Sons and Daughters.[8][9]

Sydney Conabere died in Sydney, Australia on 15 July 2008, aged 90.[2]

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ "TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago". 5 April 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Sydney Conabere". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  3. ^ "AusStage".
  4. ^ "The Little Foxes". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 30, 547. Victoria, Australia. 24 July 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 11 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "The Sign of Four (TV episode 1968)". Société Sherlock Holmes de France. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Man of Violence (1970)". www.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  7. ^ Newcomb, Horace (3 February 2014). Encyclopedia of Television. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-19472-7.
  8. ^ "AUSTRALIAN PLAY AT NATIONAL THEATRE". The Herald. No. 20, 875. Melbourne. 13 April 1944. p. 6. Retrieved 24 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "Grand opera plans". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. IX, no. 32. Sydney. 20 June 1948. p. 19. Retrieved 24 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ Vagg, Stephen (7 June 2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: The Shifting Heart". Filmink. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  11. ^ Vagg, Stephen (2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: A Stay at Home and Across the Bridge". Filmink. Retrieved 9 August 2024.