Frank Wilson, Australian actor ("Breaker Morant"), 81
deb...@comcast.net
From:
October 25, 2005
AUSTRALIAN screen legend Frank Wilson, who starred in The Club and
Breaker Morant, died yesterday aged 81.
The long-term diabetic died at his Sydney home, a day after being named
best actor at the New York Film and Video Festival for his work on The
Chess Set.
As well as hosting New Faces and In Melbourne Tonight, Wilson won a
Logie for best compere in 1972.
Appearances in A Country Practice, The Sullivans, Prisoner, Blue
Heelers and Seachange cemented him as one of the most in-demand actors
in the country.
His first film appearance came in 1959, with a supporting role in
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
Bob Feigel
proffered:
>Actor Wilson dies
>From:
>October 25, 2005
>
>AUSTRALIAN screen legend Frank Wilson, who starred in The Club and
>Breaker Morant, died yesterday aged 81.
Not to take anything away from Mr Wilson's long acting career, but he
was a cast member, not the star or even in the top billing in Breaker
Morant.
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
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Philip
"Bob Feigel" <b...@surfwriter.net.not> wrote in message
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> On 24 Oct 2005 22:58:50 -0700, deb...@comcast.net magnanimously
> proffered:
>
>>Actor Wilson dies
>>From:
>>October 25, 2005
>>
>>AUSTRALIAN screen legend Frank Wilson, who starred in The Club and
>>Breaker Morant, died yesterday aged 81.
>
> Not to take anything away from Mr Wilson's long acting career, but he
> was a cast member, not the star or even in the top billing in Breaker
> Morant.
>
The author of the news item has obviously just picked out the best-known
movie in his filmography without checking any further. Wilson did play a
significant featured role in THE CLUB, but he was more of a star character
player than a leading actor throughout his career. He was a familiar (and
welcome) face in our films and on TV, but hardly a screen legend.