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| 1953 || ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
| 1953 || ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]'' || Lord Mayor of London || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1956 || ''[[Of Mice and Men (play)|Of Mice and Men]]'' || George || [[University of Melbourne]] |
| 1956 || ''[[Of Mice and Men (play)|Of Mice and Men]]'' || George || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1956 || ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
| 1956 || ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'' || The Rag Picker || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1956 || ''[[Golden Boy (play)|Golden Boy]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1957 || ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace (play)|Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
| 1957 || ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace (play)|Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' || Lieutenant Rooney || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1957 || ''[[A View from the Bridge]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1958 || ''[[The Making of Moo]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
| 1958 || ''[[The Making of Moo]]'' || William || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1958 || ''A Hatful of Rain'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
| 1958 || ''A Hatful of Rain'' || Polo Pope || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1958 || ''[[Lola Montez (musical)|Lola Montez]]'' || Smith || [[University of Melbourne]], [[Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane]], [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust|Elizabethan Theatre]] |
| 1958 || ''[[Lola Montez (musical)|Lola Montez]]'' || Smith || [[University of Melbourne]], [[Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane]], [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust|Elizabethan Theatre]] |
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| 1958 || ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1958 || ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' || Cliff Lewis || [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust|Elizabethan Theatre]] |
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| 1965 || ''[[Tiny Alice]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1965 || ''[[Inadmissible Evidence]]'' || || [[University of Melbourne]] |
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| 1968 || ''[[The Crucible]]'' || || [[Russell Street Theatre]], [[Canberra Theatre Centre|Canberra Theatre]], Tasmania |
| 1968 || ''[[The Crucible]]'' || Giles Corey || [[Russell Street Theatre]], [[Canberra Theatre Centre|Canberra Theatre]], Tasmania |
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| 1968 || ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' || || [[Russell Street Theatre]] |
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Revision as of 20:12, 10 January 2024
Alan Hopgood | |
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Born | Alan John Hopgood 29 September 1934 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
Died | 19 March 2022 (aged 87) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Years active | 1940–2014 |
Alan John Hopgood AM (29 September 1934 – 19 March 2022), also known as Alan Hopwood, was an Australian actor, producer, and writer. He wrote the screenplay for the 1972 film Alvin Purple and made appearances in television shows such as Bellbird, Prisoner and Neighbours.
Early life
Hopgood was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and grew up in the state. He acted in several dramatic roles in his childhood. He attended school in Melbourne and then studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Hon) and a Diploma of Education. His first play, Marcus, was produced at Melbourne University while he was working as a school teacher. He left teaching to write full-time and start his acting career.[1]
Career
Scriptwriting and screenwriting
Hopgood's first successful play, And the Big Men Fly, was about Australian rules football and was produced in 1963 by the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne with scripts by Brad Hopgood.[2] The play was adapted for TV by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1973 and also a telemovie. In 1964, he followed with The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women. In 1966 he produced Private Yuk Objects, which he said was the first play anywhere in the world on the subject of the Vietnam War.
Hopgood has also written a number of film and television screenplays, including the comedy film Alvin Purple (1973), which was the most commercially successful Australian film of the early 1970s.
Screen actor: Television and film
Hopgood was an actor with the Melbourne Theatre Company for ten years and was an early 'soap' star in Bellbird, in which for six years he played the town doctor. He has also performed in the later soaps, Prisoner (for which he also scripted many episodes) and Neighbours as Jack Lassiter (a role he reprised in August 2013).[3]
As an actor, his cinema credits include My Brilliant Career (1979), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Roadgames (1981), Evil Angels (1988, released as A Cry in the Dark outside of Australia and New Zealand)[4] and The Man from Snowy River II (1988).
He worked with a large number of actors including Frank Thring, Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, Sam Neill and Judy Davis.[5]
In late 2021, Hopgood appeared in an exclusive interview for the official YouTube channel Talking Prisoner, in which he discussed his life and career. The episode was published in January 2022.[6]
Honours
Hopgood won AWGIE awards for The Cheerful Cuckold and The Bush Bunch and writing several feature films including Alvin Purple and the documentaries The Prophecies of Nostradamus and The Fountain of Youth.
Hopgood was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in 2005 for his services to the performing arts as an actor, playwright and producer, and to the community through raising awareness of men's health issues.[7]
Personal life
Hopgood resided in Melbourne with his wife Gay, with whom he had two children (Fincina and Sam), and four grandchildren (Jackson, Harrison, Ashwyn and Darcy).[8]
Health issues and death
Alan Hopgood developed prostate cancer and published a book on the experience titled Surviving Prostate Cancer: One Man's Journey, which was widely praised.[9][10] He ofter toured giving humorous lectures on men's health issues.[5]
Hopgood died from prostate cancer at the age of 87 on 19 March 2022 at a hospital in Melbourne.[11][12]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1959 | Tragedy in a Temporary Town | McCarthy | TV movie |
1969 | Dynasty | Jacob Goldberg | TV movie |
1959 | Antony and Cleopatra | First Soldier | TV movie |
1959 | Ned Kelly | Dan Kelly | TV movie |
1960 | Man in a Blue Vase | Aaron | TV movie |
1960 | The Astronauts | Dave Armstrong | TV movie |
1960 | Who Killed Kovali? | Jeff Willis | TV movie |
1962 | The Teeth of the Wind | Frank Andrews | TV movie |
1962 | She'll Be Alright | TV movie | |
1962 | You Can't Win 'Em All | Feliz | TV movie |
1962 | Lola Montez | Smith | TV movie |
1963 | Night Stop | Gary | TV movie |
1963 | And The Big Men Fly | JJ Forbes | TV movie |
1969 | The Cheerful Cuckold | Gareth | TV movie |
1969 | The Torrents | TV movie | |
1977 | The Trial of Ned Kelly | Narrator | TV movie |
1979 | My Brilliant Career | Father | Feature film |
1979 | Burn the Butterflies | TV movie | |
1980 | The Blue Lagoon | Captain | Feature film |
1980 | The Quick Brown Fox | Marley Powers | Short film |
1980 | The Coast Town Kids | Mick James | TV movie |
1980 | Pacific Banana | Sir Harry Blandings | Feature film |
1981 | Roadgames | Lester | Feature film |
1982 | A Shifting Dreaming | TV movie | |
1983 | A Slice of Life | Dr. Williams | Feature film |
1985 | Emerging | Tom Birchfield | TV movie |
1987 | Ground Zero | Commissioner #2 | Feature film |
1988 | Return to Snowy River | Simmons | Feature film |
1988 | Rikky and Pete | Laughing Uncle | Feature film |
1988 | A Cry in the Dark (aka Evil Angels) | President Cox | Feature film |
1996 | Hotel de Love | Ronnie | Feature film |
1998 | Two Girls and a Baby | Catherine's Dad | Short film |
2002 | Dalkeith | Mick | Feature film |
2004 | The Gift | Man on Bus | Short film |
2004 | Stiff | Herb Gardiner | TV movie |
2009 | Knowing | Reverend Koestler | Feature film |
2011 | Magic | Grandfather | |
2011 | The Cup | Grandfather at Football | Feature film |
2012 | The Game | Charles | Short film |
2012 | Last Dance | Mr. Nathan | Feature film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1972–77 | Bellbird | Dr. Matthew Reed | TV movie |
1973–74 | Matlock Police | 3 roles -Frank Walsh -Ted Reid -Brian Davis |
TV series |
1973–1975 | Homicide | 3 roles -John Ford -Paul Markes -Jim Knight |
TV series |
1978–80 | Cop Shop | 2 roles -Doug Bramley -Horrie Gibbs |
TV series |
1979 | Skyways | Edward Fielding | TV series, 2 episodes |
1980 | All the Green Years | Mr. Reeves | TV series |
1981–1985 | Prisoner | Wally Wallace | TV series |
1986 | Sword of Honour | Stuart Rogers | TV miniseries |
1986, 2013 | Neighbours | Jack Lassiter | TV series |
1987 | The Petrov Affair | Alan Reid | TV miniseries |
1989 | The Flying Doctors | Neil Hutton | TV series |
1990 | Flair | Harris | TV miniseries |
1991 | A Country Practice | Tom O'Connell | TV series |
1992 | Good Vibrations | Cec | TV miniseries |
1993 | Phoenix | Bill Douglas | TV series |
1994 | Wedlocked | Father Damien | TV series |
1994 | Law of the Land | Reg Bates | TV series |
1995 | Snowy River: The McGregor Saga | Gil Tyson | TV series |
1997 | State Coroner | Keith Summers | TV series |
1998 | Good Guys, Bad Guys | Judge Moody | TV series |
1998 | Driven Crazy | Mr. Tuck | TV series |
1998–00 | The Games | Radio Newreader (voice only), Database Inquiry Questioner | TV series |
1999 | Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude | Lecturer | TV miniseries |
2000–04 | Blue Heelers | 3 roles -George Ratcliffe QC -Bob Swinburn -Doc Parkinson |
TV series |
2001 | Round the Twist | Cornelius Crenshaw | TV series |
2001 | Something in the Air | Bill Mackay | TV series |
2001 | Halifax f.p. | Joshua Lippmann | TV series |
2002 | The Secret Life of Us | Dr. Morgan | TV series |
2002–03 | MDA | Dr. Hugo Willard | TV series |
2003 | Welcher and Welcher | Judge Furphy | TV series |
2003 | Stingers | Detective Senior Sargeant Bill Skelton | TV series |
2003 | The Saddle Club | Bud | TV series |
2004 | Fergus McPhail | Shop Assistant | TV series |
2005 | Holly's Heroes | Max Peterson | TV series |
2007 | City Homicide | Harry Mackintosh | TV series |
2021 | Talking Prisoner | Himself | YouTube special |
As writer
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1963 | And the Big Men Fly | Writer | TV movie |
1964 | Barley Charlie | Writer | TV series, season 1 (7 episodes) |
1967 | Bellbird | Writer | TV series |
1968 | The World of Seekers | Writer | TV movie |
1969 | The Cheerful Cuckold | Writer | TV movie (from Australian Plays) |
1973 | The Barry Crocker Comedy Hour | Writer | TV special |
1973 | Alvin Purple | Screenplay | Feature film |
1974 | And the Big Men Fly | Writer | TV series, season 1 (6 episodes) |
1974 | Alvin Rides Again | Screenplay | Feature film |
1975 | The True Story of Eskimo Nell | Writer | Feature film |
1976 | Alvin Purple | Writer / creator | TV series, season 1 (13 episodes) |
1979 | Gulpilil: Man of Two Worlds | Writer | TV movie |
1979 | The Prophecies of Nostradamus | Writer | Feature film |
1980 | The Quick Brown Fox | Writer | Short film |
1981 | The Man Who Saw Tomorrow | Screenplay | Feature film |
1981 | And Here Comes Bucknuckle | Writer | TV series, season 1 (6 episodes) |
1981 | Pacific Banana | Screenplay | Feature film |
1981 | The Cliffhanger | Writer | Short TV movie |
1981 | The Bush Bunch: 1.1 the Cliffhanger | Writer | TV movie |
1982 | Breakfast in Paris | Screenplay (credited as Morris Dalton) | Feature film |
1982 | Prisoner | Writer | TV series, season 4 (1 episode) |
1983 | A Slice of Life | Screenplay | Feature film |
1985 | Fountain of Youth | Writer | TV movie |
1985 | From Opera with Love | Writer | TV movie |
1988–91 | The Flying Doctors | Writer | TV series, seasons 3-5 & 9 (6 episodes) |
1989 | Sugar and Spice | Writer | TV series, season 1 (8 episodes) |
1989–91 | Pugwall | Scriptwriter | TV series, seasons 1 & 2 (42 episodes) |
1990 | Flair | Writer | TV miniseries (2 episodes) |
1991 | Chances | Writer | TV series, season 1 (3 episodes) |
1994 | Blue Heelers | Writer | TV series, season 1 (1 episodes) |
1998–01 | Neighbours | Writer | TV series, seasons 14–17 (22 episodes) |
Theatre
As actor
As writer / director / crew
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1957 | Beauty and the Beast | Stage manager | University of Melbourne |
1959 | Marcus | Playwright | University of Melbourne |
1963-65 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | Russell Street Theatre, Arts Theatre Adelaide, Wangaratta Town Hall, Broken Hill Town Hall, Playhouse Perth, Albury, Theatre Royal Hobart, Twelfth Night Theatre |
1964 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Playwright | Russell Street Theatre |
1965-66 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Playwright | Burnley Theatre Richmond, Camberwell |
1966 | Private Yuk Objects | Playwright | Mildura, Russell Street Theatre, Phillip Theatre, Mildura Arts Centre |
1967 | Terribly Terribly | University of California | |
1967 | Monkey Tricks | Playwright | Playhouse Canberra |
1967 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | Playhouse Canberra |
1967-68 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Playwright | Pymble Community Hall, Adelaide Teachers College, Twelfth Night Theatre |
1970 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | Scott Theatre, Adelaide |
1973 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | La Boite Theatre |
1974 | Terribly Terribly | Playwright | Monash University |
1976 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | SGIO Theatre |
1977 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Playwright | Mountview Theatre Macedon, Arts Theatre Brisbane |
1980-83 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | Victorian country tour, Arts Theatre Brisbane, Arts Theatre Adelaide, Tilley Recreation Park Adelaide, Brown's Mart Theatre Darwin |
1982 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Playwright | Nerang, Newcastle |
1986 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women; Out of the Frying Pan; A Kind of Justice | Playwright | Masonic Hall Perth |
1988 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | Russell Street Theatre |
1970 | Ritual | Playwright | Majestic Cinemas Sydney |
1992 | Petrov: The Musical | PlaywrIght | Melbourne Concert Hall |
1993-94 | Emperor of The Ghetto | Adaptor | Fairfax Studio Melbourne, Lion Theatre Adelaide |
1994 | And the Big Men Fly | Playwright | Theatre 62, Adelaide |
1997 | For Better for Worse | Playwright | Chapel Off Chapel |
1998 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Harbour Theatre, Shellharbour | |
2001 | The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women | Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre | |
2002 | And the Big Men Fly | Tower Arts Centre, Adelaide | |
1999-2004 | The Carer | Playwright | Australian national tour |
2005 | Six Degrees of Diabetes | Playwright | |
2005 | Red Dust Diva - the Musical | Writer | Chapel Off Chapel |
2006 | A Pill, a Pump and a Needle | Playwright | |
2005-07 | Weary - the Story of Sir Edward Dunlop | Playwright | Australian national tour |
2007 | Four Funerals in One Day | Playwright | |
2008 | Never Too Old | Playwright | Monash University, Chapel Off Chapel |
2008 | Wicked Widows | Director / playwright | Monash University, Chapel Off Chapel |
2009 | My Dog Has Stripes | Playwright | Fortyfivedownstairs |
2011 | The Empty Chair | Playwright | |
2012 | Hear Me | Playwright | |
2014 | Do You Know Me | Playwright |
References
- ^ AustLit, The Resource of Australian Literature
- ^ "Alan Hopgood theatre roles". AusStage.
- ^ "Jack Lassiter returns to Erinsborough". Neighbours.com.au. Eleven. 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ^ "A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates". IMDb.com. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ^ a b Entertainoz Archived 29 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 25 Interview with Alan Hopgood (Wally Wallace)". YouTube. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ Health Play Archived 24 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/10456049
- ^ "Surviving prostate cancer : one man's journey". Trove. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ "Surviving Prostate Cancer by Alan Hopgood". www.penguin.com.au. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Acting icon Alan Hopgood, 87, passes away
- ^ Knox, David (22 March 2022). "Vale: Alan Hopgood". TV Tonight. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/1369
- ^ https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/10456049
- ^ https://creativerep.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/HOPGOOD-Alan-CV.pdf
External links
- Alan Hopgood at IMDb
- Bay Street Productions
- Holly's Heroes
- Alan Hopgood at AustLit
- Alan Hopgood discography at Discogs
- 1934 births
- 2022 deaths
- Australian dramatists and playwrights
- Australian male film actors
- Australian screenwriters
- Australian male soap opera actors
- Australian male stage actors
- Deaths from cancer in Victoria (state)
- Deaths from prostate cancer
- People from Launceston, Tasmania
- University of Melbourne alumni
- 20th-century Australian male actors
- 21st-century Australian male actors
- Members of the Order of Australia
- Works by Alan Hopgood