John Meillon

John Meillon

Born: May 1, 1934
Died: August 11, 1989
in Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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John Meillon  (1 May 1934 – 11 August 1989) was an legendary Australian actor, most widely known outside Australia for his role as Walter Reilly in the films Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II. He also voiced Victoria Bitter beer commercials until his death.

Meillon was born in Mosman, Sydney. He began his acting career at the age of eleven in the ABC's radio serial "Stumpy", and made his first stage appearance the following year. He joined the Shakespeare Touring Company when he was sixteen. Like many actors of his generation from 1959 to 1965 he worked in England.

He had a recurring role in the TV series My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?. He featured in two episodes of "Skippy" in 1968 and 1969 appearing as "Nimble Norris". In 1976 he won the AFI Award for Best Actor for his role of 'Casey' in the film The Fourth Wish (1976).

With his rich baritone, Meillon was used extensively in voice over work- the most famous being his work as the "you can get it any old how" Victoria Bitter narrator.

He married Australian actress June Salter in 1958. They were divorced in 1971. They had one son, John Meillon, Jr. He then married actress Bunny Gibson ("Rita the Eta Eater") on 5 April 1972: they also had a son.

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Title: Over There
Released: November 13, 2005
Type: TV
Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.
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Tripe
Title: Tripe
Character: Father
Released: January 28, 1989
Type: Movie
A black comedy about a family terrorised by their father who feeds his family tripe at every meal, every day. Eventually, the kids revolt, but it isn't long before the eldest son steps into his father's shoes.
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Outback Bound
Title: Outback Bound
Character: Nobby
Released: October 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A girl from Beverly Hills tries to find her fathers opal mine in the Australian outback.
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Crocodile Dundee II
Title: Crocodile Dundee II
Character: Walter Reilly
Released: May 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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The Everlasting Secret Family
Title: The Everlasting Secret Family
Character: The Judge
Released: March 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
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Bullseye
Title: Bullseye
Character: Merritt
Released: June 1, 1987
Type: Movie
In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
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Frenchman's Farm
Title: Frenchman's Farm
Character: Bill Dolan
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal, but unable to convince anyone of her story, she investigates the crime herself.
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Crocodile Dundee
Title: Crocodile Dundee
Character: Walter Reilly
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.
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The Blue Lightning
Title: The Blue Lightning
Character: Dr. William Giles
Released: May 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a super-criminal with an army of killers operating in the Australian outback.
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King Solomon's Mines
Title: King Solomon's Mines
Character: Captain John Good (voice)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Deep within a remote mountain somewhere in Africa lies the fold and endless riches of the legendary King Solomon. Many have tried to find the treasure - but none have succeeded! Now, Alan Quartermaine's determined to locate the bounty, but first he must battle the wilds of Africa and the ferocious Kukuwana trive - who are intent on keeping the treasure for themselves! It's an expedition in excitement and adventure that will have your whole family on the edge of their seats!
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Porthos
Released: December 31, 1985
Type: Movie
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.
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The Dunera Boys
Title: The Dunera Boys
Character: Brig. Templeton
Released: October 3, 1985
Type: Movie
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
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The Camel Boy
Title: The Camel Boy
Character: (voice)
Released: May 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Young Ali and his camel-driver grandfather Moussa take part in an expedition through the Australian Outback. Faced with prejudice, Moussa's knowledge and the hardiness of his camels in the punishing conditions quickly prove vital to both the success of the expedition and the survival of its members.
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The Wild Duck
Title: The Wild Duck
Character: Old Ackland
Released: March 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.
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Title: Scales of Justice
Character: Barnes
Released: September 20, 1983
Type: TV
Scales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael Jenkins. It was one of the most controversial Australian mini-series ever produced, examining corruption in all levels of law enforcement.
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The Dismissal
Title: The Dismissal
Character: Sir John Kerr
Released: March 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
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Heatwave
Title: Heatwave
Character: Freddy Dwyer
Released: March 8, 1982
Type: Movie
During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of Sydney.
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Shimmering Light
Title: Shimmering Light
Character: Eric Stuart
Released: December 12, 1978
Type: Movie
1978 Australian television film about an American surfer who travels to Australia in search of the perfect wave. It was one of six TV movies made in Australia by Transatlantic Enterprises.
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Born to Run
Title: Born to Run
Character: Delaney
Released: October 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Journey to the land down under for a warm, thrilling story of a once proud racehorse stableowner, his adventurous grandson, and their dream to revive the golden days of horse racing glory.
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The Picture Show Man
Title: The Picture Show Man
Character: Maurice 'Pop' Pym
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
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The Fourth Wish
Title: The Fourth Wish
Character: Casey
Released: July 16, 1976
Type: Movie
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
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Ride a Wild Pony
Title: Ride a Wild Pony
Character: Charles E. Quayle
Released: November 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner's herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an inseparable team, until one day the pony suddenly disappears. Soon after, the ranch owner's handicapped daughter Josie has a wild pony especially trained to pull her cart. But Scott is convinced that Josie's pony is actually his, which leads to a court battle that divides their small Australian town. One child must ultimately lose the pony when true ownership is decided.
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Sidecar Racers
Title: Sidecar Racers
Character: Ocker
Released: April 30, 1975
Type: Movie
You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in thrill-a-minute action. Burning the track like its never been burned before!
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The Cars That Ate Paris
Title: The Cars That Ate Paris
Character: The Mayor
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.
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The Dove
Title: The Dove
Character: Tim
Released: June 16, 1974
Type: Movie
16-year-old Robin Lee Graham aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23-foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey, he meets and falls in love with Patti Ratteree, who is also traveling around the world. As Robin sails around the world to many beautiful locales, he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.
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Title: The Evil Touch
Released: June 19, 1973
Type: TV
The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where each episode had a self-contained story and a new set of characters. Each episode feature a new cast of guest actors, although several guest stars appeared in more than one episode, playing different characters. Each story is a thriller or horror story of some variety, ranging from tales of the occult and the supernatural, science fiction horror stories, to more standard murder schemes and whodunits. Most stories feature a twist ending.
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Sunstruck
Title: Sunstruck
Released: December 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney
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Wake in Fright
Title: Wake in Fright
Character: Charlie
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
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Walkabout
Title: Walkabout
Character: Man
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
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Title: Riptide
Character: Luke Russell
Released: February 6, 1969
Type: TV
Riptide is an Australian adventure television
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: 'Nimble' Norris
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Nimble Norris
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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Title: My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: TV
My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? was a popular Australian situation comedy series produced by ATN7 from 1966 to 1968. The situation involved a young couple, Wally and Rita Stiller, living in Balmain with Rita's father Dominic McGooley. Also in the regular cast was Stewart Ginn, and later Noeline Brown joined. The comedy of the series came from the clash of two generations living under one roof, a situation possibly suggested by UK comedies Steptoe and Son and Till Death Us Do Part. Many episodes were written by Ralph Peterson. When Chater left the series in 1968 the remaining cast was spun off into a new series titled Rita and Wally but it was found that the character of Dominic was integral to the comedy of the situation and the series ended a few months later. The series had a run of 88 episodes under the McGooley title. Rita and Wally ran for 23 episodes. The program was rated number 24 in 2005 television special 50 Years 50 Shows which counted-down Australia's greatest television programs.
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They're a Weird Mob
Title: They're a Weird Mob
Character: Dennis
Released: August 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.
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Dead Man's Chest
Title: Dead Man's Chest
Character: Johnnie Gordon
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
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Guns at Batasi
Title: Guns at Batasi
Character: Aussie
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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633 Squadron
Title: 633 Squadron
Character: Flight Lieutenant Gillibrand
Released: April 6, 1964
Type: Movie
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
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The Running Man
Title: The Running Man
Character: Jim Jerome
Released: October 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Cairo
Title: Cairo
Character: willy
Released: July 17, 1963
Type: Movie
An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
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Billy Budd
Title: Billy Budd
Character: Neil Kincaid, Maintopman
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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Death Trap
Title: Death Trap
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death.
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Title: Man of the World
Released: September 29, 1962
Type: TV
Man of the World was an ATV drama series, distributed by ITC Entertainment. The show ran in the United Kingdom in 1962 and 1963 for 20 one-hour episodes in monochrome. The series stars Craig Stevens as Michael Strait, a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung place as Iraq, Indo-China, and Algiers. Tracy Reed co-stars in the first season.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: RAdm. Alan G. Kirk (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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The Valiant
Title: The Valiant
Character: Bedford
Released: June 13, 1962
Type: Movie
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
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Watch It, Sailor!
Title: Watch It, Sailor!
Character: Albert Tufnell
Released: August 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
Title: The Long and the Short and the Tall
Character: Pte. Smith
Released: February 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface
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Offbeat
Title: Offbeat
Character: Johnny Hemick
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
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The Sundowners
Title: The Sundowners
Character: Bluey Brown
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
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On the Beach
Title: On the Beach
Character: Ralph Swain
Released: December 16, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Henry Soames
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Rope
Title: Rope
Released: August 21, 1957
Type: Movie
Australian television adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play.