";s:4:"text";s:6557:" ... Australian swimmer, Olympic athlete, world championship silver medallist, American swimming coach. Photograph: AllstarBill Hunter at Bill Heslop, the father of the bride, with Toni Collette in the title role in Muriel's Wedding, 1994. "Hunter's 1992 marriage to the former TV presenter Rhoda Roberts ended in divorce.• William John Bourke Hunter, actor, born 27 February 1940; died 21 May 2011Australian actor known for his roles in Strictly Ballroom and Muriel's WeddingBill Hunter at Bill Heslop, the father of the bride, with Toni Collette in the title role in Muriel's Wedding, 1994. BILL HUNTER: It was in 1984 on the set of The Hit. His next marriage was to actress On 15 May 2011, Hunter was admitted to Caritas Christi hospice in A memorial service for Hunter was held at Melbourne's A painting of Hunter by artist Jason Benjamin won the Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 36: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). That upsets the purists, but never mind, they don't work as much as I do. The experience of watching the Hollywood stars perform gave him the idea that "any mug can do that".Therefore, while still in his 20s, Hunter moved to London and studied at Rada, which led to his joining the newly founded repertory company at the Nottingham Playhouse under John Neville's artistic direction in 1963. Hunter, given his first chance to display nuance in his performances, played a decent bloke coming to terms with his prejudices. William John "Bill" Hunter was an Australian actor of film, stage and television, who was also prominent as a voice-over artist.... Jump to. Sporting a neat moustache, Hunter played Major Barton, reluctantly and painfully having to send his young troops into an unwinnable battle. The water is cool and fresh, and the day is beautiful. However, he got the job of swimming double for Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins in the nuclear disaster movie On the Beach (1959), most of which was shot in Victoria. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
Set in post-second world war Sydney, it starred Hunter, managing to make an obsessive, driven man sympathetic, as a fiercely proud newsreel cameraman who takes all sorts of risks to get his stories, only to find his trade gradually being replaced by television.Equally sympathetic was his role in Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981). Bill Hunter at Bill Heslop, the father of the bride, with Toni Collette in the title role in Muriel's Wedding, 1994. During his teens, Hunter was a champion swimmer, and briefly held a world record for the 100 yards freestyle until his record was broken by John Devitt in the very next heat ten minutes later. Anyone who says there's any more to it than that, is full of bullshit. Australian actor. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; all unstructured text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. It was Noyce's belief in Hunter as more than just a heavy that led to Newsfront (1978), among the films of the Australian film renaissance. In Death of a Soldier (1986), Hunter, as a hard-nosed detective, determined to nail a GI for the murder of several women, conveyed the tensions between the local police and the US army represented by James Coburn.In Strictly Ballroom, Hunter wore an ill-fitting blond toupee to play the machiavellian president of the Australian Ballroom Dancing Federation, who is against any innovation ("There are no new steps"). 18 admitted they were married –one male and female suspect were married to each other; 31 have criminal arrest histories – 9 of whom are registered felons – and one of whom has 86 previous charges in the Tampa Bay area. An excellent swimmer, Hunter was at one point considered for Australia's Olympic squad, but a bout of meningitis ended his competitive swimming career. Hunter was born in Ballarat, a son of William and Francie Hunter.
Seemingly gruff and impenetrable, he could convey the tenderness beneath the exterior. Among his early film roles was a sadistic officer in Mad Dog Morgan (1976), starring Dennis Hopper as the notorious 19th-century Australian outlaw; and the lead in Noyce's Backroads (1977), an aimless drifter who links up with an Aborigine in a car trip across New South Wales. Sections of this page. 1 Bill Hunter (actor) Feb 27, 1940 Ballarat. The grey-bearded Hunter, wearing a headband, played it beautifully straight amid the wildly camp goings-on, especially in the scenes when he forms a close relationship with Bernadette (Terence Stamp). It is a craft, but there's no art involved. Life and work. In one of his last interviews, Hunter modestly summed up his approach to acting: "As long as the director told me where to stand and what to say, I was happy. 11 … "Hunter's first marriage was to Robbie Anderson from 1963 to 1973, with whom he had a son, named James Hunter. Photograph: Allstar Hunter had appeared with Stamp in Stephen Frears's The Hit (1984).Despite his great success, Hunter was declared bankrupt in 1996 after running up debts of more than A$440,000. He continued to be in demand on TV and film, one of his last appearances being in Luhrmann's epic Australia (2008) – it would have been unthinkable if Hunter, who defined a certain kind of "Ozness", had not been included in the huge cast.Hunter's final film was the yet-to-be-released horseracing drama The Cup (2011) in which he played the horse trainer Bart Cummings. "The Swimmer" is the story of a man who begins at the dawn of a new day to swim in the backyard pool of some friends. Hunter was a son of William and Francie Hunter. Anyone who says there is any more to it than that is full of shit. His role as the corrupt politician and philandering father of the bride in Muriel's Wedding consolidated this.In contrast to these pompous bullies, delivered with comic relish, there was a refreshing reversal of type in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in which he portrayed a sensitive, warm-hearted nonconformist mechanic, who latches on to a quartet of outrageous drag queens touring the Australian outback. For many Australians, the screen persona of the character actor Bill Hunter, who has died of cancer aged 71, was the archetypal "ocker", an uncultivated Australian working man who enjoys beer, "barbies", Aussie rules football and V8 supercars.