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John Howard is well known to most viewers
for his role as Bob Jelly on the critically acclaimed Seachange.
He is a actor equally adapt at stage and screen and has an
impressive list of acting accomplishments.
John can now be seen as a star of Always Greener.
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| Name |
John
Howard |
| Birthday |
22nd
October 1952 |
| Favourite Role |
Eddy Bourke, A Man's
Gotta Do (Not released yet)
Bob Jelly, Seachange,
ABC TV
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| Latest Role |
Film
Eddy Bourke, A Man's
Gotta Do
TV
John Taylor, Always
Greener
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Highlights of Always Greener you wish
to share
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Blowing up
the cow's bum. |
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Memories of The Road from Coorain
you wish to share
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An endless
horizon of saltbush west of Wentworth NSW. |
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Memories of The Man who Sued God you
wish to share
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Shooting the
breeze with the delightful Billy Connelly. |
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Memories of In a Savage Land you wish
to share
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Too many strange
events occured in the "Land of the Unexpected" ie. Kiriwina.
Catching a bronze whaler shark on a handline. |
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Memories of Seachange you wish to
share
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Too, too many.
My favourite parts of the show with the vignettes and the end with
Kevin & Trevor. |
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Memories of Never Tell Me Never you
wish to share
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Claudia's
resilience. |
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Memories of Blackrock you wish to
share
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Meeting the
professional boxers who helped out. |
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Memories of Dating the Enemy you wish
to share
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Asking the
director why she cast me and finding out she didn't. Claudia and Guy
Pearce lovely people. |
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Memories of Singapore Sling you wish
to share
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Going to Bali
and Western Samoa afterwards. Taloja! |
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Memories of Girl from Tomorrow you
wish to share
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Building the
weapons and the "modi" chamber with Nick McCallum (Art Director)
. Seeing a tape of the Russian version where one man did ALL the voices. |
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Memories of Young Einstein you wish
to share
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Going to Bali
and Western Samoa afterwards,. Taloja! |
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Memories of Around the World in Eighty
Ways you wish to share
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Gosia's dress. |
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Memories of Razorback you wish to
share
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Broken Hill
- the Brushmen of the Bush - 5 pigs especially the one with 2 men
in it. Chris Haywood and David Argue's insane characters. |
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Memories of Bush Christmas you wish
to share
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"Sovereign"
the horse I road Johnny Ewing (R.I.P.) and a young Nicole Kidman's
start. |
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Memories of A Town Like Alice you
wish to share
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Putting a
flower in Helen Morse's hair! (Why did I have to plan her brother?
Damn!) |
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Memories of Water Under the Bridge
you wish to share
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Jackie Weaver
gave me a custard pie fight on the last day of the shoot in the makeup
room. |
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Memories of The Club you wish to share
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Carn the Pies!
Being paid to play for Collingwood at Vic Park. |
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Memories of The Games you wish to
share
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A lucky fluke.
Met John Clark in the corridor at ABC, Elsternwick Studios - "Ah!
I've got something for you" he said. The rest is history. |
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Memories of Stingers you wish to share
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- Bloody Tattoos!
- Hot, hot leathers
- Bikies families and
kids lovely people
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Memories of Water Rats you wish to
share
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We raided
a houise and only John HAAS ( A real detective) fell over and broke
his nose! |
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Memories of Wildside you wish to share
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Improvising
scenes with Tony Martin. A lot of fun. |
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Memories of Flipper you wish to share
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Fish. |
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Memories of Young Ramsey you wish
to share
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John Hargreaves
(RIP) brilliant, mischievous wit. What a man! |
| Preferred Medium (Stage, Screen,
Television) |
Maybe film
or, no, probably TV but depends on the people I'm working with and
the script. |
| Address For Fan Correspondence |
c/- ICS Pty Ltd, Level
5, 62 Clarence Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2000
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| Favourite Book |
"The
Tin Drum" |
| Favourite Movies |
Too many - "The
Tin Drum", "Local Hero", "Angelo My Love".
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| Favourite Song |
Too many - "Blue
Velvet " from movie same name.
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| Favourite Television
Program |
Always Greener
of course!
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| Favourite Person to
Act Alongside |
Too
many - maybe Judy Davis. |
| Actor you would like
to work with |
All
who are good and not up themselves. |
| Favourite Quote, Saying or Motto |
"Ah, Life!"
(Anton Chekov, The Seagull)
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| Favourite Possession |
None,
they're just things. |
| Future Ambitions |
To keep doing what I'm
doing now. To turn off my body clock so I can see what the world
is like in 300 years!
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| Why you became an Actor |
Was carp at
everything else. Anne Tenney told me about NIDA. |
| If you were'nt an Actor other
career choice |
Marine Biologist
or Zoollogist.
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| Comments |
Thanks for taking an
interest.
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