Tommy Dysart (1935-2022) Australian Actor
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| FULL NAME | Thomas Gibson Dysart |
|---|---|
| BIRTH | 24 December 1935, Maryhill, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| DEATH | 15 June 2022 (aged 86), Melbourne, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia |
| Years Active | (1959–2019) |
| SPOUSE | Joan Brockenshire |
| CHILDREN | Kole Dysart |
| EDUCATION | NIDA – National Institute of Dramatic Art |
| OCCUPATION | Actor and Commercial advertiser |
| BURIAL | |
| NATIONALITY | Australian |
Tommy Dysart Wiki, Biography, Family, Life, Age and Death
Short Bio
Tommy Dysart Was a Scottish-Born Australian Actor. He was best known to Australian television viewers as the vicious and cold prison officer Jock Stewart on the popular soap opera “Prisoner” from 1980 to 1982.
He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1959 and later started a career both as a vocalist and performing on the theatrical stage.
In 1963, he made his television debut on the series “Consider Your Verdict.” Besides “Prisoner,” he would go on to appear in such series as “Matlock Police,” “Homicide,” “Cop Shop,” “Come Midnight Monday,” “The Flying Doctors,” “Wedlocked,” and “Something in the Air.”
In 1969, he made his “big screen” debut in the film “It Takes All Kinds.” His later film credits included “The Man from Snowy River,” (1982) “Bliss,” (1985) “Garbo,” (1992) and “Flynn.” (1996) He was also well known for the television commercials he appeared in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Tommy Dysart Australian Actor Biography
Thomas Gibson Dysart billed as Tommy Dysart, was a Scottish-born Australian actor, known for his appearances on television dramas and comedies and in character roles in films and miniseries.
Tommy Dysart Career Film and TV roles
Dysart graduated from NIDA in 1959, and started his career as a vocalist and performed in theatre.
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, Matlock Police and Cop Shop.
Dysart appeared briefly in the series Prisoner in the early 1980s, where he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and cold prison officer Jock Stewart.
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).
Commercial Advertisements
In the 1990s he appeared in a well-remembered television commercial advertisement for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil, (“G, O, G, G, O … No! No! Not the Dart”). He was also known for playing a recurring character of a Mafia-boss-like butcher in advertisements for Don 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. Dysart and Joan Brockenshire appeared in Karl von Möller’s 2019 documentary “D’art”.
Tommy Dysart Personal life and Death
Dysart enjoyed a long personal and professional relationship with director and writer Frank Howson. They worked together on the films Backstage, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, What the Moon Saw, Flynn, Crime Time, The Final Stage, The Lucky Country, and the award-winning short film Remembering Nigel, which also featured Dysart’s wife and son Kole.
Dysart was married to actress Joan Brockenshire. On 18 February 2022, Dysart suffered a stroke and was taken to the Alfred Hospital. He died on 7 June, at the age of 86.
