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John Hargreaves (actor)

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John Hargreaves
Born
John William Hargreaves

(1945-11-28)28 November 1945
Died8 January 1996(1996-01-08) (aged 50)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationActor

John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.[1]

Background

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Hargreaves was educated at Marist College Kogarah.[2] He taught in Mendooran, New South Wales, but moved to Sydney in the 1960s. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1970.[3]

Hargreaves was mainly a film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions. Hargreaves had roles in The Removalists, Don's Party, The Odd Angry Shot, and Malcolm. He played the love interest of Nicole Kidman's character in Emerald City.

In 1994 he became the first actor to receive the Byron Kennedy Award.[4]

Personal life and death

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Although he had exclusively heterosexual relationships while young, by the early 1980s Hargreaves acknowledged and embraced his homosexuality. Between 1984 and 1988, he partnered with French actor Vincent Perrot.[4][5]

Hargreaves contracted HIV about 1994 and died of AIDS-related complications in a hospice in Sydney on 8 January 1996.[4] Pallbearers at Hargreaves' funeral included actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1966 They're a Weird Mob Youth reading paper at train station (uncredited) Feature film
1974 Essington TV movie
1975 Last Rites Bennett TV movie
1975 Sunday Too Far Away Uncredited Feature film
1975 The Removalists Constable Neville Ross Feature film
1976 Mad Dog Morgan Baylis Feature film
1976 Don's Party Don Henderson Feature film
1976 Death Cheaters Steve Hall Feature film
1978 A Good Thing Going Phil Harris TV movie
Logie Award for Best Actor in a miniseries/telemovie
1978 Long Weekend Peter Feature film
Nominated – Sitges Film Festival award for Best Actor
1978 Little Boy Lost Jacko Walls Feature film
1979 The Odd Angry Shot Bung Feature film
1979 Banana Bender Tom Hardy TV movie
1981 The Killing of Angel Street Elliott Feature film
1981 Hoodwink Martin Stang Feature film
Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1982 Beyond Reasonable Doubt Arthur Allan Thomas Feature film
1983 Careful, He Might Hear You Logan Feature film
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1984 The Great Gold Swindle Ray Mickelberg TV movie
1984 My First Wife John Feature film
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1986 Double Sculls Sam Larkin Feature film
1986 Comrades Convict Animated film
1986 Sky Pirates Lt. Harris Feature film
1986 Malcolm Frank Baker Feature film
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1987 The Place at the Coast Neil McAdam Feature film
1987 Cry Freedom Bruce Haigh Feature film (based on Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh)
1988 Boundaries of the Heart Andy Ford Feature film
1988 Emerald City Colin Rogers Feature film
Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1990 Sweet Revenge Jim Harris Feature film
1993 Blackfellas Detective Maxwell Feature film
1994 No Worries Clive Ryan Film
1994 Country Life Jack Dickens Film
Byron Kennedy Award
Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1995 Hotel Sorrento Dick Bennett Feature film
1996 Lust and Revenge Gallery Sleaze Feature film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1969 Pastures of the Blue Crane TV series
1972 Over There Robert Kirby TV series
1972 Behind the Legend Tom Roberts TV series
1972–74 Matlock Police Doug Thompson / Peter Smith / Roy Jones TV series, 3 episodes: "Everybody Else Has Everything", "The Last Laugh", "A Weekends Entertainment"
1973 Division 4 Jackson/John TV series, 2 episodes: "Wasteground", "A Wild Wild Rose"
1973 Spyforce Captain/Navigator TV series, 2 episodes: "The Trail", "The Journey"
1974 And the Big Men Fly Achilles Jones TV series
1974–76 Homicide Billy Day / David Taylor / Kevin Watson / Steve Brennan TV series, 4 episodes: "Cowboy Billy Day", "You Hear about the Slasher", "The Egotist", "On The Run"
1975 Silent Number Terry Lucas TV series, 1 episode: "His Own Private War"
1976 Power Without Glory Bill Evans TV miniseries
1976 Bluey Eric Yates TV series, 1 episode: "One Man Band"
1977–80 Young Ramsay Peter Ramsay TV series
1982 Last Breakfast in Paradise
1983 Scales of Justice Constable Borland TV miniseries
1983 The Dismissal Dr. Jim Cairns TV miniseries
1983 Carson's Law TV series
1988 The Heroes Ted Carse TV miniseries
1988 Opération Mozart Harrington TV short
1988 The Alien Years William TV miniseries
1991 Marie Curie, une femme honourable Rutherford TV miniseries
1992 The Leaving of Liverpool Harry TV miniseries
1992 Rome Roméo David Waldberg
1993 G.P. Dr. Oliver Loyd TV series, 1 episode: "Infected"
1995 Blue Murder Chester Porter QC TV miniseries

Below the line credits

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Other credits

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  • Second Best (1994)
  • completion guarantee services (The Completion Bond Company Inc) Whore (1991)

Theatre

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Year Title Role Location
1967 The Choephori (The Libation Bearers) Chorus Member UNSW
1968 Sam, The Highest Jumper of Them All, or the London Comedy New Theatre, Sydney
1968 Postmark Zero New Theatre, Sydney
1968 America Hurrah New Theatre, Sydney
1969 The Night of the Iguana Hank / Herr Fahrenkopf NIDA Theatre
1969 In the Gloaming, Oh My Darling (student graduation play) Mr. Birdsong Jane Street Theatre
1969 Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter Jane Street Theatre
1970 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Old Tote Theatre
1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream Old Tote Theatre
1970 Blood Wedding Old Tote Theatre
1970 Biggles Biggles Nimrod Street Theatre
1971 As You Like It Parade Theatre
1971 The Man of Mode Parade Theatre
1971 A Month in the Country Parade Theatre, Canberra Theatre
1971 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Parade Theatre, Canberra Theatre
1971 The National Health or Nurse Norton's Affair Parade Theatre
1971 Lasseter Parade Theatre with Old Tote Theatre
1971 The Au Pair Man Independent Theatre
1972 Jugglers Three Union Hall, Adelaide
1973 Crete and Sergeant Pepper Union Hall, Adelaide
1973 Measure for Measure Union Hall, Adelaide
1975 The Ride Across Lake Constance Nimrod Theatre
1975 The Importance of Being Earnest Sydney Opera House
1977 The Training Run Constable Patrick Reilly Bondi Pavilion
1980 The Sunny South Matt Morley Sydney Opera House
1980 Bent Max Playhouse Adelaide
1981 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Brick Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1983 Present Laughter Theatre Royal, Sydney
1990 Love Letters Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Sydney Opera House

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References

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  1. ^ Gail McCrea, "Captain of the Clouds", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p38-41
  2. ^ Marist College Kogarah- Famous Ex-students Archived 8 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:17-07-2007)
  3. ^ OBITUARY:John Hargreaves The Independent. 7 February 1996
  4. ^ a b c O'Hanlon, Paul (8 January 2016). "John Hargreaves: tribute to an Aussie cinema pioneer and legend". Australian Times. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  5. ^ Healey, Ken (2022). "Hargreaves, John William (1945–1996)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  6. ^ "AusStage".
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