Noel Ferrier

Noel Ferrier

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Noel Ferrier AM (20 December 1930 in Melbourne – 16 October 1997 in Sydney) was an Australian television personality, stage and film actor, raconteur and theatrical producer. Ferrier had an extensive Australian theatre career which spanned over fifty years.  A member of the first Australian professional repertory company, the Union Theatre Repertory Company, he created the role of 'Roo' in the original production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at the Union Theatre of the University of Melbourne. He appeared in numerous films and television productions. A contemporary of Barry Humphries, in 1956 he was the "interviewer" of the first onstage appearance of a certain Mrs. Norm Everidge, later known universally as Dame Edna.   To ease the workload on Graham Kennedy, he was invited by GTV9 to host a Friday night version of In Melbourne Tonight from 1963 to 1965. This was stylistically different to that of Kennedy's IMT, – "dyed in the wool IMT viewers switched off in their droves"  – Noel Ferrier's In Melbourne Tonight (as it was known) garnered a separate and loyal audience, resulting in a Logie for Most Popular Program in Victoria in 1964.  . Following this success, the network decided to relay the show in Sydney on TCN9, but in the early hours of the following morning after live telecasts of World Championship Wrestling . After his period on IMT finished in 1965, he started a morning radio show in Melbourne on 3UZ with Mary Hardy called "The Noel and Mary Show", which contained a riotously funny serial known as "The House on the Hill" featuring Sir & Lady Ernest Snatchbull, "set in a mythical Government House and loosely based on the vice-regal column in The Age... the real Governor of Victoria of the time was a (reputedly) devoted fan... whereas his wife was said to have abhorred it."   He developed a reputation as a reliable television character actor; appearances occurred in Riptide (1969), Skippy (1970), as well as a numerous characters in the Crawfords stable of productions, including Homicide (1969), Division 4 (1970, 1971 & 1975), and Matlock Police (1973,1974 & 1975). In 1971 he won the award for Best Australian Comedy with Noel Ferrier's 'Australia A-Z.  He was a regular panelist in Graham Kennedy's popular game show Blankety Blanks.  His movie credits include Alvin Purple, Eliza Fraser, Turkey Shoot and The Year of Living Dangerously. His final movie role was in Paradise Road. Description above from the Wikipedia article Noel Ferrier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Noel Ferrier
  • Popularity: 2.239
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-12-20
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Noel Ferrier Movies

  • 1973
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    Alvin Purple

    Alvin Purple

    5.6 1973 HD

    Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help...

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  • 1974
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    Alvin Rides Again

    Alvin Rides Again

    4.8 1974 HD

    Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.

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  • 1982
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    Turkey Shoot

    Turkey Shoot

    5.4 1982 HD

    In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the...

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  • 1986
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.4 1986 HD

    The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal...

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  • 1970
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    Little Jungle Boy

    Little Jungle Boy

    1 1970 HD

    He was born with the animals. He was taught by the animals. He lives with the animals. He talks to the animals. A living Nature Child. Touched by the...

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  • 1973
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    Avengers of the Reef

    Avengers of the Reef

    6 1973 HD

    This Australian children's film is about scientist Bill Stewart goes to Fiji with his son Tim to investigate the appearance of the Crown of Thorns...

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  • 1983
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    The Return of Captain Invincible

    The Return of Captain Invincible

    5.8 1983 HD

    In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to...

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  • 1976
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    The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

    The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

    4.8 1976 HD

    An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.4 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1982
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    The Year of Living Dangerously

    The Year of Living Dangerously

    6.6 1982 HD

    Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends...

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  • 1971
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    Demonstrator

    Demonstrator

    1 1971 HD

    The story of a university student who leads a protest against an Asian security conference in Canberra which has been organised by his father the...

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  • 1987
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    Great Expectations: The Untold Story

    Great Expectations: The Untold Story

    6 1987 HD

    A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

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  • 1976
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    Deathcheaters

    Deathcheaters

    5.8 1976 HD

    Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

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  • 1975
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    Scobie Malone

    Scobie Malone

    4.8 1975 HD

    Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the...

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  • 1988
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    Computer Ghosts

    Computer Ghosts

    2.8 1988 HD

    A security company conjures up fake computer-generated "ghosts" so they can buy abandoned property at below-market value at auctions. However, a...

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  • 1977
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    No Room to Run

    No Room to Run

    4 1977 HD

    Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner....

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  • 1996
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    The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas

    The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas

    5.3 1996 HD

    The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie...

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  • 1987
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    Vietnam

    Vietnam

    8.6 1987 HD

    The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.

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  • 1973
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    Private Collection

    Private Collection

    1 1973 HD

    A wealthy art collector and his wife have their property broken into in this strange, awkward comedy. Little does the thief realize, but the most...

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  • 1977
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    All at Sea

    All at Sea

    5 1977 HD

    A saucy comedy treat from the vaults that stars cast members from "Blankety Blanks", "The Celebrity Game" and "No 96" as a group of misfits...

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  • 1969
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    Riptide

    Riptide

    9 1969 HD

    Riptide is an Australian adventure television

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  • 1996
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    Good News Week

    Good News Week

    8.8 1996 HD

    Good News Week was an Australian satirical panel game show hosted by Paul McDermott that aired from 19 April 1996 to 27 May 2000, and 11 February...

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  • 1987
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    Rafferty's Rules

    Rafferty's Rules

    6 1987 HD

    Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first...

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  • 1968
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    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    5.5 1968 HD

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various...

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