Daryl Somers

Daryl Somers

Born: August 6, 1951
in Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Daryl Paul Somers is an Australian television personality and musician, and a triple Gold Logie award-winner. He rose to national fame as the host and executive producer of the long-running comedy-variety program Hey Hey It's Saturday and continued his television celebrity and status as host of the live-performance program Dancing with the Stars.

Somers was honoured in 2004 with the award of a Medal of the Order of Australia, and by Australia Post in 2018 by having his portrait featured on a series of postage stamps.

Movies for Daryl Somers...

Title: The Best of the Best and Worst of Red Faces
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: July 17, 2022
Type: TV
Daryl Somers presents Hey Hey It's Saturday's most popular, funny and weird Red Faces acts of all time. Also discover where some big names got their break, and what it was like to be a judge.
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Hey Hey It’s 100 Years
Title: Hey Hey It’s 100 Years
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Daryl Somers takes a walk down 'Hey Hey' lane, reminiscing about the madness and the mayhem of Australia's most successful and longest running variety show.
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Hey Hey It’s 50 Years
Title: Hey Hey It’s 50 Years
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Hosted by Daryl Somers, the one-off special event Hey Hey It’s 50 Years celebrates the 50th anniversary of the launch of Australia’s longest-running and most-loved variety/comedy show.
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All This Mayhem
Title: All This Mayhem
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 10, 2014
Type: Movie
A searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas' intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.
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The Wiggles: Ukulele Baby!
Title: The Wiggles: Ukulele Baby!
Character: Himself
Released: August 8, 2011
Type: Movie
The Wiggles have set sail on a new adventure with the sweet sound of ukuleles and paln trees in the distance. Set on an island near Wiggle Bay, The Wiggles have launched twenty-one new songs and paddled into a harbour of hits including You Can Play the Ukulele, Hawaiin Boogie and Hula, Hula Baby. There's a band on the island: Peter from Mental as Anything on mandolin, Nicolina on the accordion, George on bouzouki and Murray joins them on the ukulele. Of course, The Wiggles sing about things children love in teh songs When I'm Painting, My Curly Sue Doll and Everybody Loves a Puppy. There are songs about dancing such as Round and Round, Round and Round and Henry's Spinning, and then the usual Wiggle fun in Cluck, Cluck City and How Many You Want? Together with songs about The Wiggles characters, Ukulele Baby! will surely be a family favourite!
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Title: Dancing with the Stars
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: TV
(Australia) Celebrities and their professional dance partners strut their stuff on the dancefloor. Each week, one couple is voted off by the public and a panel of judges. And so it goes week after week until just one star remains.
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Title: Rove
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: TV
Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show. The show won the Logie Award for "Most Popular Light Entertainment Program" five times.
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Silence Of The Hams
Title: Silence Of The Hams
Character: Rick Shaw
Released: July 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Private Investigator Rick Shaw must stop Fu Manchu and his henchmen from sabotaging the Australian Film Industry.
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Title: Hey Hey It's Saturday
Character: Host
Released: October 9, 1971
Type: TV
Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years, debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later become executive producer of the program. The original producer, Gavin Disney, left the program in the 1980s and Somers then jointly formed his own production company, Somers Carroll Productions, with on-screen partner Ernie Carroll, the performer of Somers' puppet sidekick Ossie Ostrich.