Martin Vaughan, the veteran Australian actor with a profession spanning virtually 50 years on our screens, has died. He was 91.
Vaughan, who was finest identified for his work within the 1976 miniseries Energy With out Glory and Phar Lap, reportedly died in October, in keeping with the Media, Leisure and Arts Alliance.
Born in Brisbane in 1931 to a vaudeville comic father, on the age of 17, Vaughan moved to Sydney and pursued various totally different occupations, together with steam presser, tram conductor, postman, customs clerk and bassoon participant earlier than touchdown his first stage function in 1963 on the age of 32 – and following that, he by no means discovered himself out of performing work.
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In 1967, he moved into tv, and eight years later, he gained the Hoyts Prize for Greatest Efficiency by an Actor at then-AFI Awards (now AACTA Awards) in 1975, for his work enjoying former Prime Minister Billy Hughes in Billy and Percy.
That accolade was tied with Jack Thompson’s work in Sunday Too Far Away.
Three many years later, in 2004, he introduced a narrative on the ABC about Hughes’ daughter Helen dying in childbirth in London.
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Whereas Vaughan noticed success from his first performing function in 1963, his massive break got here in 1976, when he performed John West within the ABC’s tv adaptation of Frank Hardy’s novel Energy With out Glory, a 26-part sequence.
It was for this function that he gained the Logie Award for Most In style Actor in 1977.
Vaughan additionally went on to obtain two extra AACTA Awards nominations, one for Greatest Actor in a Main Function in 1983 for Phar Lap, and one for Greatest Actor in a Supporting Function for The Winds of Jarrah that very same yr.
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He has appeared in over 60 stage performs, and in 2007, he was nominated for Greatest Supporting Actor on the Sydney Theatre Awards for The Seed.
Vaughan’s remaining display look was in ABC TV’s Rake, which aired from 2010 to 2014.
He retired from performing in 2013, although, per the MEAA, continued writing up till his dying.
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