Michael_Duffield

Michael Duffield

Michael Duffield

English-born actor who worked in Australia (1915–1986)

Michael Duffield (1915 – June 1986[1]) was an English-born character actor who worked in Australia for many decades.[2][3] He was nominated for the 1979 AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in The Last of the Knucklemen,[4] a role he was reprising from the original stage production.[5]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Duffield was also a prominent theatre actor, starting from 1950, with numerous career characters with the Melbourne Theatre Company, he won awards in 1962 for his performance on stage in The Caretaker and also was notable for playing. Winston Churchill in the production "The Soldiers". Whilst on television he appeared in numerous televised live plays.[1]

He died in June 1986, aged 71 and was survived by a wife and three children.[1]

Select filmography

References

  1. [1]
    "Veteran Actor Dies". The Age. 17 June 1986. p. 4.
  2. [2]
    [Biographical cuttings on Michael Duffield, actor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals], 1900, retrieved 19 October 2020
  3. [3]
    Simons, Margaret (25 July 1983). "Taking characters very much to heart". The Age. p. 14.
  4. [4]
    Kuipers, Richard. "The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)". Australian Screen. NFSA. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  5. [5]
    Connolly, Keith (September–October 1979). "Film Reviews". Cinema Papers.
  6. [6]
    "TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS". The Canberra Times. Vol. 37, no. 10, 548. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 May 1963. p. 35. Retrieved 19 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. [7]
    "Famous Play Tonight". The Canberra Times. Vol. 37, no. 10, 524. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 1 May 1963. p. 33. Retrieved 19 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.


Stub icon

This article about an Australian actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Michael_Duffield, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.