Name
Alan Cassell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-02-16
Deathday
2017-08-30 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Manchester, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Cassell (born 1932) was an Australian actor, born in the UK and best known for his roles in film and television.
Cassell was one of the actors who worked in Bruce Beresford's early Australian films.
Film credits include:Money Movers, Cathy's Child (for which he was nominated for "Best Actor"), Squizzy Taylor, Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues and The Club. His most recent films are The Honorable Wally Norman and Strange Bedfellows.
TV roles include: Taurus Rising, Special Squad, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion, Blue Heelers, SeaChange, Stingers and MDA.
Cassell commenced his acting career in WA and worked for many years as a stage Actor. Winning "Best Actor of the Year" for his role in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" He later worked for the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was in the original cast of "Away" which toured to New York and appeared in "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Lauren Bacall for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Cassell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.1
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners...
5.794
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after fals...
6.071
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counti...
5.261
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a n...
- 2004 Strange Bedfellows as Stan Rogers
- 1980 Breaker Morant as Lord Kitchener
- 1978 Money Movers as Sammy Ross
- 2003 The Honourable Wally Norman as Willy Norman
- 1975 Plugg as Herman Cavanagh
- 1988 Touch the Sun: Princess Kate as Bob McLelland
- 1982 Squizzy Taylor as Det. Brophy
- 1986 The Big Hurt
- 1979 Cathy's Child as Dick Wordley
- 1988 Midnight Dancer as Belinda's Father
- 1984 The Settlement as Lohan
- 1984 The Fire in the Stone as Robbie
- 1978 The Newman Shame
- 1982 The Dark Room as Ray Sangster
- 1980 The Club as Gerry Cooper
- 1982 The Highest Honour as Lieutenant Ted Carse
- 1987 Vietnam as John Gorton
- 1980 Harlequin as Mr. Porter
- 1981 Puberty Blues as Mr. Vickers
- 1988 The Four Minute Mile as Gordon Landy
- 1993 Blue Heelers ( 2 episodes )
- 1984 Special Squad ( 43 episodes )
- 1988 Mission: Impossible ( 1 episode ) as Dr Wolfgang Gerstner
- 1989 The Power, The Passion ( 130 episodes )
- 1986 The Flying Doctors ( 1 episode ) as Robert Freeman
- 1986 The Flying Doctors ( 1 episode ) as Charles
- 1994 Janus ( 2 episodes ) as Chief Justice
- 1992 Bony ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Yeates
- 1982 Sara Dane ( 1 episode ) as Governor Phillip
- 1987 Rafferty's Rules ( 1 episode ) as Bill Ryan
- 1994 Halifax f.p. ( 1 episode ) as Doctor Wallace
