An Australian TV show host appeared in the stage production of Cats in the role of one of the feline characters who also appeared in the poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was written by who?
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Jeff Phillips (singer) Jeffrey Travis Andrew "Jeff" Phillips (born November 1948) is an Australian TV show host, personality, musical theatre actor and pop singer active from 1966 to the early 1990s. As a pop singer, he had a Top 40 hit on the "Go-Set" singles chart with a cover version of The Shirelles' 1961 hit, "Baby It's You". At the Logie Awards of 1970, he won the Best New Talent category for hosting his own ABC-TV pop show, "Sounds Like Us". In the early 1970s he hosted a series of teen pop music shows, "Happening '71" and "Happening '72". In July 1972 Phillips won a song prize at the Fifth Olympiad of Song, held in Athens, performing his self-written work, "Gloria"; the prize money was 100,000 drachmae (AUD $2,797). Although he issued further singles, until the early 1980s, he had no other national Top 40 chart success. From July 1985 to October 1987 he appeared in the Australian stage production of "Cats" in the role of Rum Tum Tugger in both the Sydney run and the Melbourne season; he also performed on the original Australian cast album.
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Rum Tum Tugger Rum Tum Tugger is one of the many feline characters in the poetry book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot, published in 1939, and in the musical "Cats", which premiered in 1981 and is based on Eliot's book.
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Jo Beth Taylor Joanne Rebecca Guilfoyle (born 29 May, 1971 in Perth, Western Australia), known professionally as Jo Beth Taylor, is an Australian television presenter, actor and singer most well known for hosting three weekly programs at the same time in the 1990s on the Nine Network: "Australia's Funniest Home Video Show" (1993–1997), "Hey Hey It's Saturday" (1995–1997) and "What's Up Doc?" (1996–1997), before taking a hiatus from television for more than two years.
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Barry Dickins Barry Dickins (born 1949) is a prolific Australian playwright, author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, probably best known for his historical dramas and his reminisces about growing up and living in working class Melbourne. His most well-known work is the award winning stage play "Remember Ronald Ryan", a dramatization of the life and subsequent death of Ronald Ryan, the last man executed in Australia. He has also written dramas and comedies about other controversial figures like poet Sylvia Plath, opera singer Joan Sutherland, criminal Squizzy Taylor, actor Frank Thring, playwright Oscar Wilde and artist Brett Whiteley.
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David Astle David Astle (born 9 November 1961 in Sydney, Australia) is a Melbourne-based writer of non-fiction, fiction and plays. He also cohosted the SBS show, "Letters and Numbers", as the dictionary expert, in company with Richard Morecroft and Lily Serna.
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Ernie Carroll Ernie Carroll (born 26 May 1929, Melbourne) is an Australian entertainer, radio and television personality, comic writer, television producer, puppeteer and comic strip writer, most recognised for his role as the man behind (and inside) Ossie Ostrich on "Hey Hey It's Saturday".
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Stephen Fry bibliography and filmography Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", and the duo also played the title roles in "Jeeves and Wooster". Fry played the lead in the film "Wilde", was Melchett in the "Blackadder" television series and is the host of celebrity comedy trivia show, "QI". He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, "Moab Is My Washpot", "", and "More Fool Me: A Memoir".
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Maggie Tabberer Maggie Tabberer {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (also known as Maggie T; born 11 December 1936) is a dual Gold Logie-winning Australian fashion, publishing and media/television personality.
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Jon Finlayson Jon "Finno" Finlayson (23 March 193812 September 2012) was an Australian actor and writer. He was known for his roles in the films "Lonely Hearts" (1982) and "The Magic Show" (1983).
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Tim the Yowie Man Tim the Yowie man is an Australian writer, author and cryptonaturalist who was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
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Max Harris (poet) Maxwell Henley Harris AO (13 April 1921 – 13 January 1995) was an Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller.
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Millicent Armstrong Millicent Sylvia Armstrong (1 May 1888 – 18 November 1973) was an Australian playwright and farmer who wrote primarily about the experiences of country life in early 20th century Australia.
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Barry Humphries John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".
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Kerri-Anne Kennerley Kerri-Anne Kennerley (née Wright; born 22 September 1953) is an Australian television personality, actress and singer. After more than 50 years in the industry and an inductee into the Logie Hall of Fame, she is one of Australia's most respected light entertainment and variety hosts. She is noted for her professional and personable hosting style, and her ability to handle awkward guests and situations with gentle humour and composure.
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Tracy Harvey Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia.
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Ernie Sigley Ernest "Ernie" William Sigley (born 2 September 1938, in Footscray, Australia) is a Gold Logie winning Australian television host, radio presenter and singer. Sigley is often styled as a "little Aussie battler" with a larrikin sense of humour.
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The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show is an Australian television program which is a remake of the New Zealand television program of the same name. The Australian version was filmed in Sydney from 16–25 February 2010. It was hosted by Nigel Latta, a New Zealand-born psychologist, who has written several books on parenting. It aired on the Nine Network.
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Happy Hammond Harry Montague Hammond (7 May 1916 – 1 April 1998 ) professionally known as Happy Hammond, was an Australian comedian, Radio host and Children's Television show host. & day time television producer
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Peter Whitford Peter Whitford (born 1939) is an Australian radio, theatre, television and film character actor.
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Doug MacLeod (TV writer) Doug MacLeod (born 13 October 1959) is a writer of books, television and theatre from Melbourne, Australia.
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Christy Kenneally Christy Kenneally (born 1948) is an Irish author, speaker, poet, TV presenter and scriptwriter. He is well known for his books and lectures on the subject of bereavement and dealing with loss.
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Meredith Oakes Meredith Oakes (born 18 Sept 1946,) is an Australian playwright who has lived in London since 1970. She has written plays, adaptations, translations, opera texts and poems, and taught play-writing at Royal Holloway College and for the Arvon Foundation.