Ruth Winifred Cracknell AM (6 July 1925 – 13 May 2002) was an Australian character and comic actress, comedienne and author, her career encompassing all...
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Corporation (ABC) from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris. It featured many Australian...
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during the 1960s and 1970s Richard Cracknell (born 1929), English rugby league footballer of the 1950s Ruth Cracknell (1925–2002), Australian theatre and...
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original sitcom Mother and Son, which starred Garry McDonald as Arthur and Ruth Cracknell as Maggie, and ran from 1984 to 1994 on the ABC. The rebooted series...
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American actress Ruth Clayton (1925–2003), British medical researcher Ruthie Cohen (1930–2008), American character actress Ruth Cracknell (1925–2002), Australian...
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directed by Jim Sharman. Ruth Cracknell was nominated in 1979 for an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her part. Ruth Cracknell as Doris Bannister...
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in Silent Witness in the episode "Reputations" as the character DI Ruth Cracknell, the drama Floodlights and The Railway Children Return. "Trio Land Meaty...
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Rogers Robyn Nevin as Kate Chris Haywood as Mike Nicole Kidman as Helen Ruth Cracknell as Elaine Dennis Miller as Malcolm Ella Scott as Penny Haydon Samuels...
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Ron Haddrick (section Haddrick and Cracknell)
in many Shakespearean roles and often performed with theatre actress Ruth Cracknell. At the time of his Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement Award playwright...
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as "Angela Punch") Steve Dodd as Tabidgi Peter Carroll as McCready Ruth Cracknell as Mrs. Heather Newby Don Crosby as Newby Elizabeth Alexander as Petra...
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Harris asked Chater to play the role of Mendoza and also cast the young Ruth Cracknell. The production was well-received but it was terminated in the middle...
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Howard Rubie and starring John Ewart, Sancho Gracia, Eric Oldfield and Ruth Cracknell. It was written by Ron McLean for Reg Grundy Productions. A plane transporting...
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nonconformist. The film stars Ruth Cracknell and Toni Collette as Lilian and her younger self, respectively, alongside Barry Otto. Cracknell had been a Shakespearean...
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Australian comic character actors have included John Meillon, Leo McKern, Ruth Cracknell, Geoffrey Rush and Toni Collette. Sardonic political satire like that...
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the Dancer is a 1977 film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Ruth Cracknell and Elizabeth Crosby. Mrs Bilson is treated as a simple minded invalid...
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working with the company have included Patrick White, Neil Armfield, Ruth Cracknell, Andrew Bovell, Judy Davis, Gale Edwards, Mel Gibson, Geoffrey Rush...
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awarded by the Australia Council and the cast included Ron Haddrick, Ruth Cracknell, John Gaden, Drew Forsythe and Arthur Dignam. Thereafter, Hagan performed...
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Media. p. 3. Retrieved 17 July 2011. Bradley, Michael (14 May 2002). "Ruth Cracknell dies at 76". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 17...
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Company 1983 The Way of the World Petulant Sydney Theatre Company with Ruth Cracknell & Drew Forsythe 1983 Gossip from the Forest Sydney Theatre Company 1986...
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society have lived or were educated in Chatswood. These include: actor Ruth Cracknell opera singer Yvonne Kenny artist Arthur Murch poet Banjo Patterson poet...
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during its extended run. The cast included John Ewart, Gloria Dawn, Ruth Cracknell and Reg Livermore. The play was written by John McKellar. The expression...
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the girlfriend of Arthur Beare (Garry McDonald), whose mother Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) tries to drive off. Gentle also appeared in A Country Practice, G.P...
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edited version, with music by Ed Welch, issued on RCA records. In 1990, Ruth Cracknell narrated an edited version, with music again by Welch, issued by EMI...
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musician (d. 2020) Harry Butler, naturalist and conservationist (d. 2015) Ruth Cracknell, theatre, film and television actress (d. 2002) Bart Cummings, racehorse...
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Arthur Beare in the television series Mother and Son, starring alongside Ruth Cracknell over six seasons from 1984 until 1994. He won several Logie Awards for...
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Rose is a 1994 Australian film directed by Bill Bennett and starring Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, and Max Cullen. It is about the relationship between...
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cast and a female writer and director, which was rare for the time. Ruth Cracknell as Betty Jeffrey June Salter Margaret Christensen as Sister Delforce...
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1993 to 2005. Benita Collings – Play School presenter[citation needed] Ruth Cracknell – actress Ceridwen Dovey – author Jill Hellyer – author and poet Nathalie...
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role of "Liz Beare", the daughter-in-law of "Maggie Beare" (played by Ruth Cracknell) in the Mother and Son series that ran from 1984 to 1994. She also starred...
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Touch (November, 1949) Big City Body and Soul (February 1949) – with Ruth Cracknell The Maltese Falcon (July 1949) Doctor Paul (1949) The Saxby Millions...
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