Pat Twohill

{{Short description|Australian actor (1915–1989)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Pat Twohill

| birth_name = Edmund Patrick Twohill

| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|10|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|10|07|1915|10|22|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| years_active = 1937–1968

| occupation = Actor, radio announcer

| known for = Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)
The Adventures of Long John Silver (1956–1957)

| spouse = Thora Lumsdaine (m. 26 January 1940)

| children = 5

| relatives = Jack Lumsdaine (father-in-law)

}}

Edmund Patrick Twohill (22 October 1915 – 7 October 1989) was a New Zealand actor and radio announcer who worked extensively in Australian film, radio and theatre, often under the name John Sherwood.

Twohill went to England aged 21 and was cast in the second lead role in a boxing film with John Mills called Only Pain is Real. It was cancelled due to the war and he returned home.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article278689469 |title=John Sherwood T.V. star |newspaper=Daily Mirror |issue=4196 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 November 1954 |accessdate=1 April 2024 |page=40 (Cable Edition 2) |via=National Library of Australia}}

He is best known for his role in the classic war film in Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940). After this he took the stage name John Sherwood.{{Citation

| author1=Australasian Radio Relay League.

| title=Almost in Confidence

| journal=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal

| date=December 7, 1940

| location=Sydney

| publisher=Wireless Press

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-720917353

| id=nla.obj-720917353

| access-date=1 April 2024

| via=Trove

}} He said he did this to avoid confusion over the spelling of his real name.{{Citation | author1= Australasian Radio Relay League | title= NOM-DE-RADIO? | journal= The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal | date= November 16, 1940 | location= Sydney | publisher= Wireless Press | url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-720752081 | id= nla.obj-72075208 | access-date=1 April 2024 | via=Trove}}

Twohill had a long association with radio station 2SM as an announcer.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106359130 |title="No Greater Love." |newspaper=The Catholic Press |issue=2090 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 April 1941 |accessdate=1 April 2024 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}}