Andrew McFarlane (Australian actor)
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6 June 1951 Albany, Western Australia |
Andrew McFarlane (born 6 June 1951) is an Australian actor with many stage and screen credits.[1]
Personal life
McFarlane was born in Albany, Western Australia. After the family moved to Melbourne he attended Camberwell Grammar School and was involved in school plays and school cadets. He has long been open about his homosexuality.[2][3]
Career
After making his TV debut in Crawfords police dramas Homicide and Matlock Police, he won a recurring on Division 4 before joining World War II soap opera The Sullivans as initially intellectual oldest son John Sullivan.[4] He left the series after eighteen months and in the storyline John was reported missing in action - the writers left his final fate unresolved in the hope McFarlane would return to the show. McFarlane returned to the role in the TV movie The John Sullivan Story.[1] The role gained McFarlane a Sammy Award for best supporting actor in a TV series in 1977.[5]
He later took the lead role in the miniseries The Flying Doctors, reprising the role in the ongoing series that followed. Again he left the series after 16 episodes at the height of its popularity. However, he returned in the fifth season for another 37 episodes. He also appeared in Rafferty's Rules as "Police Prosecutor Gibson". McFarlane has since played the father of Tasha Andrews in soap opera Home and Away and in 2005 played Bobby Hoyland in the soap opera Neighbours.[4]
He has also been a Play School presenter since 2000 [6] and was also one of Governor Phillip's people on Australian History on ABC. He acted in the TV series Spellbinder as Brian Reynolds, Paul's father and played Hugh Delaney in the miniseries The Alice. In 2009 he portrayed prominent Australian anti-drugs campaigner and murder victim Donald Mackay in the series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities.[6]
McFarlane appeared in a musical for the first time in 2010 in Fame - the Musical at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney.[7]
McFarlane had regular or leading roles in television series Love Child in 2014, Devil's Playground and Glitch in 2015.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Homicide | Man |
| 1974 | Matlock Police | Ben Reid |
| 1974-1976 | Division 4 | Const. Roger Wilson |
| 1976-1978 | The Sullivans | John Sullivan |
| 1976 | Break of Day | Tom Cooper |
| 1977 | Harness Fever | Doone Boyd |
| 1978 | Case for the Defence | Johnny |
| 1979 | The John Sullivan Story | John Sullivan |
| 1979 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Doone Boyd |
| 1979 | Patrol Boat | Lt David Keating |
| 1981 | Doctors & Nurses | Milligan |
| 1982 | 1915 | Robert Gillen |
| 1985 | The Flying Doctors (miniseries) | Dr. Tom Callaghan |
| 1985 | I Can't Get Started | Freddy |
| 1987 | Rafferty's Rules | Police Prosecutor |
| 1988 | Barracuda (Also known as "The Rocks") TV series pilot/telemovie | Det. Sgt. Mark Castelli |
| 1988 | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Jonathon Lovel |
| 1986-1991 | The Flying Doctors (series) | Dr. Tom Callaghan |
| 1993 | Time Trax | George Whitman |
| 1993 | Paradise Beach | Gordon |
| 1993 | G.P. | Malcolm Henderson |
| 1994 | Halifax f.p: Acts of Betrayal | Owen Toser |
| 1995 | Spellbinder | Brian Reynolds |
| 1998 | Heartbreak High | Jeff Scheppers |
| 1998 | The Violent Earth | Tom Sutton |
| 1999 | All Saints | David Miller |
| 1999 | Murder Call | Adrian MacKerras |
| 1999 | Little White Lies | Mark Lynch |
| 1999 | Blue Heelers | Mark Powers |
| 1999 | Airtight | Conrad |
| 2000 | Tales of the South Seas | Unknown |
| 2000-2001 | Water Rats | Doug McLaren & Patrick Kernaghan |
| 2001 | The Day of the Roses | Public Servant |
| 2002 | Heroes' Mountain | Mike Sodergren |
| 2003 | Tempted | Mike |
| 2004 | The Alice | Hugh Delaney |
| 2004 | Through My Eyes | John Phillips Q.C. |
| 2004 | Home and Away | Ian Osbourne |
| 2005 | Neighbours | Bobby Hoyland |
| 2005 | Blue Water High | Warren |
| 2005-2006 | The Alice | Hugh Delaney |
| 2007 | Razzle Dazzle | Trevor Morgan |
| 2008 | Emerald Falls | Dr. Henry Forbes |
| 2008 | Dream Life | Daniel |
| 2009 | Underbelly | Donald Mackay |
| 2009 | Bourke Boy | John |
| 2014 | Rake | Priest |
| 2014 | A Place to Call Home | Dr. Milson |
| 2014 | Love Child | Jim Millar |
| 2014 | Janet King | Keith Nelson |
| 2014 | Devil's Playground | Father Andrassi |
| 2015 | Glitch | Vic Eastley |
References
- 1 2 Andrew McFarlane (IMDB)
- ↑ Playing it straight, 5 October 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2015
- ↑ "What I Know About Women", Sunday Life magazine, The Sunday Age, 21 June 2015, p. 30
- 1 2 1977 – Andrew McFarlane
- ↑ http://www.crawfords.com.au/awards/awards_sullivans.shtml
- 1 2 Andrew McFarlane (Donald Mackay)
- ↑ http://mosman-daily.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/andrews-shot-at-fame/
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