Name
John Howard
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1952-10-22 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).
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- 2006 Jindabyne as Carl
- 1983 Gary's Story as Gary
- 1996 Dating the Enemy as Davis
- 1980 The Club as Geoff Hayward
- 1988 Around the World in Eighty Ways as Dr. Proctor
- 1983 Bush Christmas as Sly
- 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road as The People Eater
- 2003 Take Away as Burgies CEO
- 2004 A Man's Gotta Do as Eddy
- 2003 Japanese Story as Richards
- 2001 The Man Who Sued God as Edward Piggott
- 1999 In a Savage Land as Rev Macgregor
- 1998 Never Tell Me Never as Uncle Darryl
- 1984 Razorback as Danny
- 1988 Evil Angels as Lyle Morris
- 1997 Blackrock as Len Kirby
- 1984 Strikebound as Bashed Scab
- 2024 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga as The People Eater
- 2015 Last Cab to Darwin as Simmo
- 2002 The Road from Coorain as Angus
- 1993 Joh's Jury as Hedley
- 2018 The Merger as Bull Barlow
- 1982 The Highest Honour as Captain R. C. Page
- 2014 Grace Under Water as Ken
- 2018 Frontier
- 2019 A Matter Of Principle
- 1975 Capone as Warden J. Johnston
- 2025 Riley as Sports Broadcaster
- 2015 unINDIAN as Mr Sanders
- 2026 Wolfram
- 2001 The Job ( 1 episode )
- 1992 The Girl from Tomorrow ( 24 episodes ) as Silverthorn
- 1993 Blue Heelers ( 1 episode ) as Michael Fielding
- 2017 Get Krack!n ( 1 episode ) as Bill Langham
- 2021 Bump ( 1 episode ) as Hippy Baby Boomer
- 2001 Always Greener ( 50 episodes ) as John Taylor
- 2004 Jessica ( 3 episodes )
- 2014 Janet King ( 8 episodes ) as Steven Blakely
- 1998 All Saints ( 239 episodes ) as Frank Campion
- 1998 The Games ( 1 episode ) as John Howard
- 2017 The Warriors ( 8 episodes ) as Bill Shepherd
- 1986 The Flying Doctors ( 1 episode ) as Mike Stone
- 2014 Soul Mates ( 6 episodes )
- 1998 SeaChange ( 47 episodes ) as Bob Jelly
- 1981 A Town Like Alice ( 1 episode ) as Donald Paget
- 1980 Water Under the Bridge ( 9 episodes ) as Archie
- 2022 Colin from Accounts ( 1 episode ) as Brian Crapp
- 1996 Pacific Blue ( 1 episode ) as Dwayne Farrell
- 1996 Water Rats ( 2 episodes ) as D/S Sven Larsen
- 1998 All Saints ( 2 episodes ) as Jonathan Healy
