Австралиялық актердің өмірі мен мансабы: Эрик Дисхарт (1935-2022)

Australian actor (1935–2022)

High profile early roles included appearances in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Phoenix Five, and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and Cop Shop. Dysart appeared briefly in the series Prisoner in the early 1980s, where he played what is perhaps his best known acting role, that of vicious and cold prison officer Jock Stewart. In the storyline, after being fired from the prison service Stewart admitted to prisoner Judy Bryant that he was the one responsible for murdering her lesbian lover, fellow prisoner Sharon Gilmour. This revelation brought to a close a murder mystery storyline in the series but launched a long running story arc where Bryant repeatedly escaped from prison in a succession of attempts to exact her revenge on Stewart. After this, Dysart continued in guest starring television roles in drama series and situation comedies, and appeared in many feature films. His films included The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996). Television roles of the 1990s included appearances in All Together Now, The Games, State Coroner, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air and Neighbours. He also provided the voice for Captain Griswald in Anthony Lucas' animated short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005).

In the 1990s he appeared in a well remembered television commercial advertisement for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil, ("G, O, G, G, O No! No! Not the Dart"). He was also known for playing a recurring character of a Mafia boss like butcher in advertisements for Don Smallgoods. In the early 2000s he continued his Goggomobil persona advertising Shannons Insurance. The concept played on the role of a person searching for the car parts as any car enthusiast would. Telstra challenged this in the Supreme Court and Shannons withdrew the advertisements, but continued with Dysart and the accent (which Dysart insisted was his own and could not change). The adverts continue and Shannons Insurance also owns several of the Goggomobil cars which feature regularly in their shows. Dysart and Joan Brockenshire appeared in Karl von Möller's 2019 documentary "D'art".

Year Title Role Notes 1965 Moby Dick Rehearsed TV movie 1965 The Big Killing Sergeant Bassett TV movie 1969 It Takes All Kinds Seaman Feature film 1972 The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui TV movie 1982 The Man from Snowy River Mountain Man Feature film 1982 Next of Kin Harry Feature film 1982 The Clinic Patient Feature film 1985 Bliss De Vere Feature film 1985 I Live with Me Dad Griffin Feature film 1986 Sky Pirates Bartender Feature film 1986 The Big Hurt Schwartz Feature film 1987 Ground Zero British Veteran Feature film 1988 Backstage Head Waiter Reception Feature film 1988 Georgia Bystander Feature film 1990 What the Moon Saw Skip Feature film 1992 Garbo Bagpipes Feature film 1992 Come Rain or Shine Feature film (starred with son Kole Dysart) 1993 Flynn (aka My Forgotten Man) Macintosh Feature film 1993 Body Melt Sergeant Feature film 1994 Metal Skin Mr Graham Feature film 1995 The Final Stage Stinky Radford Feature film 1995 Mushrooms Wilson Feature film 1996 River Street Sergeant Feature film 1999 Strange Fits of Passion Taxi Driver Feature film 2000 Wee Jimmy Grandad Short film 2001 Four Jacks Lance Feature film 2002 The Real Thing Husband Feature film 2005 The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello Captain Otto H. Griswald (voice) Animated short film 2009 Remembering Nigel Tommy Dysart Short film (starred with son Kole Dysart) 2009 Crazy in the Night Jock Short film 2011 Hands. Hands Old Man Short film 2018 A Thin Life The Man Feature film 2019 D'art Self Documentary film 2021 Frankly A Life in the Circus Self Feature film

Dysart enjoyed a long personal and professional relationship with director and writer Frank Howson. They worked together on the films Backstage, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, What the Moon Saw, Flynn, Crime Time, The Final Stage, Lucky Country, and the award winning short film Remembering Nigel, which also featured Dysart's wife and son Kole. Dysart was married to actress Joan Brockenshire. On 18 February 2022, Dysart suffered a stroke and was taken to the Alfred Hospital. He died on 7 June 2022 in Melbourne, Victoria at the age of 86.