Ray Meagher

Ray Meagher

Born: July 4, 1944
in Roma, Queensland, Australia
Raymond Francis Meagher OAM (born 4 July 1944) is an Australian actor, who has appeared in Australian film and television since the mid-1970s. He is notable as the longest continuing performer in an Australian television role, portraying Alf Stewart on Home and Away, having played the role since the first episode in 1988. Meagher won a Gold Logie Award for his role in Home and Away in 2010 and currently played the role of Alf for over 35 years.

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Movies for Ray Meagher...

Being Gavin
Title: Being Gavin
Character: Doug
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Gavin hides from the courage to tell the truth, until someone he loves forces his hand.
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Title: Live from Studio Five
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: TV
Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness news and celebrity gossip, after originally covering stories from a popular news agenda. It aired its final edition on 4 February 2011 and was replaced by OK! TV in February 2011 which lasted just nine months on air before itself being axed.
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Summer Bay Slaughter
Title: Summer Bay Slaughter
Released: June 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A three-part series of dubbed black comedy shorts by Mr. Doodleburger.
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Luigi’s Ladies
Title: Luigi’s Ladies
Character: Lance
Released: May 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef … their friendship is put to the test! But, rest assured, these resilient women-of-the-world will pull through and enjoy many more entrées together at Luigi’s!
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Title: The True Believers
Character: Tom Burke
Released: June 28, 1988
Type: TV
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
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Title: The Shiralee
Character: Polkadot
Released: June 26, 1988
Type: TV
Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
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Title: Home and Away
Character: Alf Stewart
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: TV
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
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Dark Age
Title: Dark Age
Character: Rex Garret
Released: May 21, 1987
Type: Movie
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
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Vietnam
Title: Vietnam
Character: Colonel Reid
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Title: The Great Bookie Robbery
Character: Bob Temple
Released: November 15, 1986
Type: TV
On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in untraceable cash.The robbery had been so brilliantly planned and executed that police were left without a single clue–and so strict was the robbers’ code of silence that not even the underworld was aware of their identities.
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Short Changed
Title: Short Changed
Character: Marshall
Released: November 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Described as "an Aboriginal Kramer vs Kramer," this is the moving account of an Aboriginal political activist fighting his white ex-wife for joint custody of their son.
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The Blue Lightning
Title: The Blue Lightning
Character: Hale
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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Title: A Fortunate Life
Character: Bad Bob
Released: April 27, 1986
Type: TV
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
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Bootleg
Title: Bootleg
Released: May 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Russell Leech
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.
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The Fire in the Stone
Title: The Fire in the Stone
Character: Dosh
Released: September 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Teenager Ernie lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of Coober Pedy in outback South Australia. When his cache of precious opals is stolen, Ernie and his best friend are determined to find the thief.
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Mail Order Bride
Title: Mail Order Bride
Character: Kevin
Released: September 2, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman from Manilla moves to a NSW country town to marry a typical Australian man, we then experience culture shock from both sides.
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Title: Surprise, Surprise
Character: Self
Released: May 6, 1984
Type: TV
Surprise, Surprise is a British television programme originally hosted by Cilla Black and produced by London Weekend Television for ITV. It ran for 14 series from 6 May 1984 to 5 September 1997, after which four annual specials were produced between 1998 to 2001. In 2012, the show returned after a 11-year hiatus. The revived version is produced by ITV Studios and presented by Holly Willoughby. The show is currently in its second series.
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Joe Thompson
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted professional hitman who travels the world to take out notorious bad guys. When he's forced to take in his orphaned French nephew, he leaves the boy to his estate caretaker Harry who must protect him from harm.
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Mystery at Castle House
Title: Mystery at Castle House
Character: Stakovich
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A trio of kids have many exciting adventures while exploring a spooky mansion in the hope of finding their missing friends.
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Hoodwink
Title: Hoodwink
Released: November 5, 1981
Type: Movie
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
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Breaker Morant
Title: Breaker Morant
Character: Sar. Maj. Drummond
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
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My Brilliant Career
Title: My Brilliant Career
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
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The Odd Angry Shot
Title: The Odd Angry Shot
Character: Range Corporal
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
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Money Movers
Title: Money Movers
Character: Guard
Released: October 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Title: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Character: Dud Edmonds
Released: June 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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Do I Have to Kill My Child?
Title: Do I Have to Kill My Child?
Character: Des
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: Movie
A disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and aware that she's not coping after the birth of her third child, she sends desperate cries for help. But her mother, husband, neighbour and clinic sister do not recognise the seriousness of the situation until the baby ends up in hospital with a fractured skull. A heart-wrenching film that illustrates the experiences of many women who suffer from post-natal depression.
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Title: Number 96
Released: March 13, 1972
Type: TV
Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production company, produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects. The premise, original story outlines, and the original characters were devised by David Sale who also wrote the scripts for the first episodes and continued as script editor for much of the show's run. The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977. Number 96 was so popular it spawned a feature film version, filmed in December 1973. Number 96 was known for its sex scenes and nudity, somewhat risque at the time, and for its comedy characters. The series was the first Australian soap opera to feature an openly gay character.