Reg Lye (14 October 1912 – 23 March 1988) was an Australian actor who worked extensively in Australia and England. He was one of the busiest Australian actors of the 1950s, appearing in the majority of locally shot features at the time, as well as on stage and radio. Lee Robinson called him "one of the best character actors in Australia."[1] He moved to England in the early 1960s but returned to Australia when the film industry revived in the 1970s. He won the Australian Film Institute award for the 1975 production Sunday To0 Far Away, opposite Jack Thopmson
Selected credits
- Busman's Holiday (1948)[2]
- Man of Destiny (1952) [3]
- The Shop at Sly Corner (1953)[4]
- King of the Coral Sea (1954)
- The Proposal by Anton Chekhov (1954)[5]
- Smiley (1956)
- Walk Into Paradise (1956) [6]
- Three in One (1957)
- The Shiralee (1957)
- The Stowaway (1958)
- Smiley Gets a Gun (1958)
- Dust in the Sun (1958)
- The Restless and the Damned (1959)
- The Dock Brief by John Mortimer (1960) [7]
- The One Day of the Year by Alan Seymour (1961)[8]
- The Amorous Prawn (1962) – film
- Reunion Day by Peter Yeldham (1962)[9]
- The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
- The Counterfeit Constable (1964)
- Stell by Peter Yeldham (1964) [10]
- King Rat (1965)
- The Wrong Box (1966)
- Danger Route (1967)
- Fathom (1967)
- A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967)
- Doctor Who (1968) – British TV
- The Lost Continent (1968)
- Battle of Britain (1969) - Workman (uncredited)
- The Games (1970)
- Performance (1970) - Betting Shop Worker
- 10 Rillington Place (1971) - Tramp
- Burke & Hare (1972) - Old Joe
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)
- Dracula (1973)
- Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
- Quiller (1975)
- Wombling Free (1977)
- Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
- A Man Called Intrepid (1979)
- Tarka the Otter (1979)
- The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
References
- ^ "FILM UNIT MOVING NORTH". The Cairns Post. Qld.: National Library of Australia. 11 July 1953. p. 5. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 14 August 1948. p. 11. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "Double Bill Presented By Shavians". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 3 November 1952. p. 2. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 13 May 1953. p. 13. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "Metropolitan Plays For Schools". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 12 June 1954. p. 6. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "NEW FILM SHOOTING "WALK INTO PARADISE" IN NEW GUINEA". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 20 July 1955. p. 12. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ "The P.M.G.'s private eye". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 17 February 1960. p. 84. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "It seems to me". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 10 May 1961. p. 12. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "ANZAC REUNION". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 31 January 1962. p. 15. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "DID YOU KNOW?". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 19 February 1964. p. 16. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
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