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Tommy Dysart
Acting

Tommy Dysart
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1935-12-24,Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Tommy Dysart (24 December 1935 - 7 June 2022) was a Scottish-born actor, currently resident in Australia. Dysart has been a regular fixture on Australian television for several decades, frequently appearing in guest-starring roles in drama series and comedies, and in character roles in films and miniseries. High-profile early roles included appearances in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Phoenix Five, and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police. In the early 1980s he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and corrupt prison officer Jock Stewart in Prisoner. In the storyline, after being fired from the prison service Stewart admitted to prisoner Judy Bryant that he was the one responsible for murdering her lesbian lover, fellow prisoner Sharon Gilmour. This revelation brought to a close a murder-mystery storyline in the series but launched a long-running story-arc where Bryant repeatedly escaped from prison in a succession of attempts to exact her revenge on Stewart. After this Dysart continued in guest-starring television roles in drama series and situation comedies, and appeared in many feature films. His films included The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996). Television roles of the 1990s included appearances in All Together Now, The Games, State Coroner, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air and Neighbours. He also provided the voice for Captain Griswald in Anthony Lucas' animated short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005). Starting in the 1990s he appeared in a series of well remembered advertisements for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil. He was also known for playing a recurring character of a Mafia-boss like butcher in advertisements for Don's Smallgoods. In the early 2000s he continued his Goggomobil persona advertising Shannons Insurance. The concept played on the role of a person searching for the car parts as any car enthusiast would. Telstra challenged this in the Supreme Court and Shannons withdrew the advertisements, but continued with Dysart and the accent (which Dysart insisted was his own and could not change). The adverts continue and Shannons Insurance also owns several of the Goggomobil cars which feature regularly in their shows. Tommy has enjoyed a long friendship and working relationship with director/writer Frank Howson in the movies Backstage, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, What The Moon Saw, Flynn, Crime Time, The Final Stage, The Lucky Country, and their most recent collaboration is the award winning film Remembering Nigel, which also stars Tommy's wife Joan and son Kole. He was married to Australian actress Joan Brockenshire.

Filmography

The Man from Snowy River

7

The Man from Snowy River
1982-03-25

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

7.1

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
2005-01-19

5

Sky Pirates
1986-01-16

5.333

Four Jacks
2001-08-07

I Live With Me Dad

8

I Live With Me Dad
1985-01-01

What the Moon Saw

10

What the Moon Saw
1990-12-26

4

River Street
1997-07-17

The Big Killing

0

The Big Killing
1965-04-21

6.238

Next of Kin
1982-04-30

5.611

Metal Skin
1994-02-21

5.1

Body Melt
1994-10-28

6.405

Bliss
1985-10-04

7

Garbo
1992-05-20

Friday on My Mind

9

Friday on My Mind
1990-01-01

4.75

The Clinic
1983-04-21

Strange Fits of Passion

4.286

Strange Fits of Passion
2000-03-30

6.469

Blue Heelers
1993-09-10

All Together Now

6.667

All Together Now
1991-01-22

Come Midnight Monday

0

Come Midnight Monday
1982-03-11

7.6

Prisoner
1979-02-27

The Flying Doctors

6.647

The Flying Doctors
1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors

6.647

The Flying Doctors
1986-05-15

7.667

The Games
1998-08-17

The Man from Snowy River

6.833

The Man from Snowy River
1994-09-23

8

Zoo Family
1985-07-28

The Last Outlaw

7

The Last Outlaw
1980-10-20

5.75

Homicide
1964-10-20

9

Kelly
1991-08-10

Eureka Stockade

5.5

Eureka Stockade
1984-03-27

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

6

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
1968-02-05

Women of the Sun

7

Women of the Sun
1982-07-05

Water Under the Bridge

7

Water Under the Bridge
1980-09-25

Good Guys, Bad Guys

7

Good Guys, Bad Guys
1997-03-30

Round the Twist

7.038

Round the Twist
1990-04-06