Scott Burgess (actor)
{{short description|Australian actor}}
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Scott Burgess (14 July 1958 – 6 May 2016) was an Australian actor, best known for his role as Dave McCall in police drama Water Rats from 1996 to 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/05/vale-scott-burgess.html|title=Vale: Scott Burgess|date=10 May 2016|work=tvtonight.com.au|accessdate=12 June 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511132938/http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/05/vale-scott-burgess.html|archivedate=11 May 2016|df=dmy-all}}
Career
Burgess' first role was in the film Dead Easy, before getting his lucky break in the World War I miniseries 1915.
He went on to feature in The Great Bookie Robbery, The Dirtwater Dynasty and Inside Running, before scoring his long-running role as Senior Sergeant Dave McCall, in four seasons of Water Rats. He quit the series of his own accord, desiring a change, and subsequently scored the lead role of Bill Peterson in Above the Law.
Burgess later returned to television in four episodes of Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities in 2009.
Personal life
In 2008, he revealed to A Current Affair that a marital rift cut his acting career short, and lead to him working in minimum wage job in a boat yard.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/07/actor-spills-on-family-fight.html |title=Actor spills on family fight |accessdate=10 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019213559/http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/07/actor-spills-on-family-fight.html |archivedate=19 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}
Burgess' marriage to Tracy Jones produced four children, including Nadia, Ella, Lily and Zac. His son Zac Burgess is also an actor, and played Eli Bell in the Australian miniseries, Boy Swallows Universe.
Death
Burgess died in 2016, aged 57, following a heart attack.
Filmography
=Film=
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Type | |||
| 1982 | Dead Easy | George | Feature film |
| 1983 | With Prejudice | Ross Dunn | Feature film |
| 1983 | Outbreak of Hostilities | Bobby Benton | TV movie |
| 1986 | Just Us | Billy Carter | TV movie |
| 1988 | Computer Ghosts | 'Ras' Cal | TV movie |
| 1998 | Cody: The Wrong Stuff | Mike | TV movie |
=Television=
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Type | |||
| 1982 | 1915 | Billy McKenzie | TV miniseries, 7 episodes |
| 1983–84 | Kings | John King | TV series, 17 episodes |
| 1984 | Special Squad | Michael | TV series |
| 1986 | The Great Bookie Robbery | Les 'Robbo' Robbins | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1988 | The Dirtwater Dynasty | Guy Westaway | TV miniseries, 5 episodes |
| 1988 | Australians | Clyde Fenton | Anthology TV series, episode 7: "Clyde Fenton" |
| 1989 | Inside Running | Christopher Parvo | TV series, 19 episodes |
| 1992 | G.P. | David Robinson | TV series, season 4, episode 1: "Test of Conscience" |
| 1992 | Tracks of Glory | Pat Galloway | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1992 | E Street | Jimmy Duval | TV series, 9 episodes |
| 1996 | Heartbreak High | Damien | TV series, season 4, episode 9 |
| 1996–2000 | Water Rats | Senior Sergeant Dave McCall | TV series, 116 episodes |
| 2000 | Above the Law | Bill Peterson | TV series, 35 episodes |
| 2009 | Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities | James Fredrick 'Fred' Bazley | TV miniseries, 6 episodes |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|nm0121349}}
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