Bill Kerr

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Henry Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014) was a British and Australian film and television actor. He was born into a performing arts family in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He began working as a child actor in depression era Australia, taking his first major role in The Silence of Dean Maitland, one of Australia's first talking films. After serving in the Second World War, Kerr moved to England to further his acting career, and during the 1940s he was regularly featured in the BBC radio series Variety Bandbox. His trademark was his catch phrase "I'm only here for 4 minutes..." In the 1950s, he had a recurring role as an Australian lodger in the BBC radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour. Initially sharper than Hancock's characterisation, it was developed into a more dim-witted character who became the butt of Hancock's jokes. His television appearances in Britain include a 1968 Doctor Who story called The Enemy of the World, with Patrick Troughton, and a long running part in the early 1960s BBC-TV soap, Compact. Bill Kerr had much theatrical success in Britain, playing The Devil in the original West End production of Damn Yankees, directed by Bob Fosse, and Cole. He also worked with Spike Milligan. He appeared in Milligan and John Antrobus's stage play The Bed-Sitting Room, which opened at the Mermaid Theatre on 31 January 1963. A subsequent production opened on 3 May 1967 at the Saville Theatre, and "a cast containing an unusually high proportion of Australian actors including Bill Kerr and David Nettheim." Then in 1972 he co-starred with Anthony Newley in the long running Newley/Bricusse musical, The Good Old Bad Old Days. In 1975, Kerr took the part of Bluey Notts, described as "an Australian bookie's clerk, a crude racialist", in The Melting Pot. This was a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, which was cancelled by the BBC after just one episode had been broadcast. He also appeared in several British films, including The Dam Busters and The Wrong Arm of the Law, before moving back to Australia. Although probably best known as a comic actor, and especially for his appearances in Hancock's Half Hour, he has since played a number of serious roles, notably in Peter Weir's films Gallipoli (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). He also worked on the Australian stage in the 1980s, in musicals such as My Fair Lady, where he received excellent reviews as Alfred Doolittle. In 2001, he appeared in the Australian comedy Let's Get Skase. Kerr also appeared in Glenview High and the 1998 television comedy series Minty. Kerr has also been involved in documentaries, providing the narration for No Survivor - The Mysterious Loss of HMAS Sydney Nine Network Australia (1995), Malice or Mutiny for the ABC Australia 2003 and Animal X Natural Mystery Unit series for Discovery in the US, TV2 Norway and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Kerr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Cape Town, South Africa, 1922-06-10

Died: 2014-08-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Harmony Row	Leonard	0
2	1951	Penny Points to Paradise	Digger Graves	41
3	1952	My Death Is a Mockery	Hansen	50
4	1953	Appointment in London	Bill Brown	62
5	1955	The Night My Number Came Up	Soldier	68
6	1955	The Dam Busters	Flight Lieutenant H. B. Martin, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.	69
7	1956	Port of Escape	Dinty Missouri	54
8	1957	The Shiralee	Shopkeeper (uncredited)	51
9	1959	The Captain's Table	Bill Coke	58
10	1961	Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value	Various	0
11	1962	A Pair of Briefs	Victor - Club Owner	57
12	1962	A Pair of Briefs	Victor	57
13	1963	The Wrong Arm of the Law	Jack Coombes	65
14	1963	Doctor in Distress	Australian Sailor	62
15	1966	Doctor in Clover	Digger	55
16	1966	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Gladiator-in-Training	60
17	1968	Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World	Giles Kent	79
18	1973	Ghost in the Noonday Sun	Giacomo	41
19	1975	Girls Come First	Hugh Jampton	22
20	1976	House of Mortal Sin	Mr. Davey	65
21	1981	Gallipoli	Jack	70
22	1981	Save the Lady	MacDuff	70
23	1982	Deadline	Willliam Ashby	60
24	1982	The Pirate Movie	Major General	49
25	1982	The Year of Living Dangerously	Colonel Henderson	66
26	1983	Great Expectations	(Voice)	20
27	1983	Dusty	Tom Lincoln	60
28	1984	Razorback	Jake Cullen	59
29	1984	The Settlement	Kearney	0
30	1984	Vigil	Birdie	67
31	1985	Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court	Self	0
32	1985	The Coca-Cola Kid	T. George McDowell	54
33	1986	Platypus Cove	Mr. Anderson	0
34	1986	Double Sculls	Curly	0
35	1987	Rob Roy		60
36	1987	The Lighthorsemen	Gen. Sir Harry Chauvel	61
37	1987	Running from the Guns		45
38	1987	Bushfire Moon	Trevor Watson	60
39	1988	Mortuary Academy	Brody	33
40	1989	Kokoda Crescent	Russ	0
41	1991	Sweet Talker	'Uncle' Cec	48
42	1992	Over the Hill	Maurice	42
43	2001	Let's Get Skase	Mitchell Vendieks	60
44	2003	Peter Pan	Fairy Guide	72

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Hancock's Half Hour		75
2	1959	Garry Halliday		0
3	1959	No Hiding Place		37
4	1960	Citizen James		76
5	1962	Compact		30
6	1963	Doctor Who	Giles Kent	79
7	1965	It's Not Me - It's Them!	Len	0
8	1977	Glenview High		0
9	1978	Father, Dear Father	Customs Man	50
10	1983	Return to Eden		70
11	1985	Anzacs	General Monash	67
12	1986	A Fortunate Life	Narrator (voice)	40
13	1990	The New Adventures of Black Beauty	Samuel Burton	80
14	1991	The Private War of Lucinda Smith	Scotty	0
15	1991	The River Kings	Captain Elijah	80
16	1993	Snowy	Stuart McLachlan	60
17	1993	Ship to Shore		20
18	1997	Animal X		0
19	2001	Changi	Older Eddie	65

Bill Kerr

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