Roy Leywood
Roy Leywood | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Radio producer & Actor |
| Years active | 1956–1989 |
| Works | Under the Mountain Erebus: The Aftermath |
Roy Leywood is a New Zealand actor, director, and radio producer who began his career in the 1950s working on New Zealand radio dramas.
Radio career[edit]
He began his career in 1956 directing radio plays for the Wellington Repertory Theatre. One of his earlier works was "The Desperate Hours" which was broadcast between 28 April and 2 May 1959. He later produced and directed "Radio Play #137" which was broadcast on 3 November 1965. During the broadcast, Leywood was the director for the segment "The Cause of Something", written by Stephen Rose.[1] Leywood would also star in the Australian radio show "The Frigate Captain", a fifteen-minute multi-part series, in which Leywood played the character of "Doctor Guthrie".[2]
One of his last known radio works was as a voice actor on the radio program "Voices of Gallipoli".[3]
Television[edit]
In 1981, Leywood starred in his first television appearance, appearing as the kind and wise "Mr. Jones" in the children's mini-series Under the Mountain. The show was popular in New Zealand and later re-broadcast in 1983 as part of the American television series The Third Eye on Nickelodeon. In 2009, the series was remade into a feature film in which the character of Mr. Jones was played by Sam Neill.
Roy Leywood later starred in a television episode of "Both Sides of the Fence" and in 1988 appeared in the mini-series Erebus: The Aftermath.
References[edit]
- ^ Gisborne News (Dec 1965)
- ^ "Australian Radio Series (1930s to 1970s)", Radio Series Collector's Guide, http://www.otrr.org (Retrieved 13 June 2017)
- ^ Casting call sheet, "Voices of Gallipoi", Radio New Zealand (1989)
External links[edit]
- Roy Leywood at IMDb