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John William Hargreaves - Australian Dictionary of Biography
John Hargreaves (actor)
Australian actor
For other people with the same name, see John Hargreaves (disambiguation).
John Hargreaves | |
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| Born | John William Hargreaves (1945-11-28)28 November 1945 Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 8 January 1996(1996-01-08) (aged 50) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor.
He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.[1]
Background
Hargreaves was educated at Marist College Kogarah.[2] He taught in Mendooran, New South Wales, but moved to Sydney in the 1960s. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1970.[3]
Hargreaves was mainly a film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions.
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