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Syd Conabere

{{Short description|Australian actor (1918–2008)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Syd Conabere

| birth_name = Sydney Leicester Conabere,

| birth_date = 8 July 1918

| birth_place = Footscray, Victoria

| death_place = Sydney, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and given age|2008|07|15|90|df=y}}

| occupation = Actor

| spouse = Elizabeth "Betty" Howden (m. 1945)

| children = Prudence, Sally

| years_active =Film and television 1957–2002, theatre 1938–1989

}}

Sydney Leicester Conabere (8 July 1918{{spaced ndash}}15 July 2008) was an Australian actor and puppeter. He was notable for his work in theatre, film and television drama in a career spanning more than fifty years. In 1962 Conabere won the Logie award for Best Actor, for his performance in the television play The One Day of the Year.{{Cite web|url=https://televisionau.com/2013/04/tv-week-logie-awards-50-years-ago-3.html|title = TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago|date = 5 April 2013}}

Biography

Conabere was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray on 8 July 1918 and worked prolifically in the industry starting out as a stage actor with Gregan McMahon in 1938, in particularly he worked with the Melbourne Theatre Company{{cite web |url=http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/414493 |title=Sydney Conabere |website=www.ausstage.edu.au |access-date=2014-11-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2241|title = AusStage}} and Melbourne Little Theatre, sharing the stage (and applause) with Irene Mitchell in, for example, Lilian Hellman's The Little Foxes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11353472 |title=The Little Foxes |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=30,547 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 July 1944 |accessdate=11 October 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Conabere had an extensive career as a character actor from the 1950s to the 2000s, regularly appearing in popular Australian television serials, including Emergency, Matlock Police and Homicide. He worked for a short period in the United Kingdom, appearing in the drama serials Z Cars and Sherlock Holmes,{{cite web |url=http://www.sshf.com/encyclopedia/index.php/The_Sign_of_Four_(TV_episode_1968) |title=The Sign of Four (TV episode 1968) |website=Société Sherlock Holmes de France |access-date=2014-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322161908/https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Sign_of_Four_(TV_episode_1968) |archivedate=2016-03-22 |url-status=dead }} the comedy Please Sir!, and in the crime film Man of Violence.{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afd24ac |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404160407/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afd24ac |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 April 2017 |title=Man of Violence (1970) |website=www.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2018-08-26}}

In the 1980s Conabere reached a wider international audience, making occasional appearances in two long running Australian soap operas, in Neighbours as Dan Ramsay{{Cite book |last=Newcomb |first=Horace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1625 |title=Encyclopedia of Television |date=2014-02-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-19472-7 |language=en}} and as Doug Palmer in Sons and Daughters.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245316545 |title=AUSTRALIAN PLAY AT NATIONAL THEATRE |newspaper=The Herald |issue=20,875 |location=Melbourne |date=13 April 1944 |accessdate=24 August 2020 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248273235 |title=Grand opera plans |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |volume=IX |issue=32 |location=Sydney |date=20 June 1948 |accessdate=24 August 2020 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Sydney Conabere died in Sydney, Australia on 15 July 2008, aged 90.

Selected filmography

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References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0174153}}
  • {{AusStage|contributor/2241}}

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Category:1918 births

Category:2008 deaths

Category:20th-century Australian male actors

Category:21st-century Australian male actors

Category:Australian male film actors

Category:Australian male stage actors

Category:Australian male television actors

Category:Male actors from Melbourne

Category:People from Footscray, Victoria