Mark Mitchell (actor)

Australian actor and comedian
the actor

Mark Mitchell (born 29 September 1954) is an Australian actor, comedian and contemporary artist, best known for his roles in the sketch comedy series The Comedy Company, most especially his character of Greek Australian fruit store proprieter Con the Fruiterer.

Mark Mitchell was born in Melbourne. He studied English and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and then completed a Diploma of Education at State College of Victoria Rusden Campus (now part of Deakin University). He taught secondary school (Ararat high school) English for five years before becoming an advertising copy writer and then a professional actor.

Mitchell starred in the pioneering sketch comedy show The Eleventh Hour, a predecessor to his hit sketch show The Comedy Company. His best known character is Con Dickaletus aka 'Con the Fruiterer' whom he created after being served by two Greek Australian stall holders at Glenferrie Markets in 1984. The character became known nationally from regular appearances in The Comedy Company, for which he also created the character of Con's wife, Marika. He has made many guest appearances on Australian television series such as SeaChange, Neighbours, Something in the Air, Blue Heelers, Prisoner, Special Squad, Willing and Abel, Dogwoman and Upper Middle Bogan. He has also starred in children's television programs such as Round the Twist, Lift Off and The Genie From Down Under. He played the part of Chief Quimby in the 2003 film Inspector Gadget 2. He has also lent his voice to the children's animated series Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers and The Flamin' Thongs. Mitchell voices commercial radio advertising campaigns, playing a dim witted fool who interviews various people about radio advertising, with amusing consequences resulting from his character's lack of understanding the interviewees. He portrayed fictional museum exhibit figure "Max Muck" for some of the video reel and photos used and depicted in the exhibit "The Muck Bunker Constipation Experience" at Scienceworks Museum in Melbourne housed in the Spotswood Pumping Station. He has had supporting lead roles in various US movies made in Australia including The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas and The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, and voiced the character of 'Buck Cluck' for the Australian release of Chicken Little. He has also portrayed David Lange in the 1994 New Zealand tv mini series Fallout.

Title Year Role Type Wills & Burke 1985 Carpenter Feature film Ground Zero 1987 Detective Feature film With Love to the Person Next to Me 1987 Salesman in Taxi Feature film Evil Angels (aka A Cry in the Dark) 1988 School Teacher Feature film The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas 1996 Santa TV movie Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking 2000 Prologue Narrator (voice) TV movie On the Beach 2000 Reg TV movie Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend 2000 Prologue Narrator (voice) TV movie Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes 2001 Sante's Lawyer TV movie Abschied in den Tod 2001 Chief Inspector Peck TV movie Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman 2001 Prologue Narrator (voice) TV movie Inspector Gadget 2 2003 Chief Quimby Feature film Loot 2004 Billy Angel TV movie Chicken Little 2005 Buck Cluck (voice Australian release only) Feature film The Fourth Pillar 2009 Dr. Francis Staedler Paper Planes 2009 Mr. White TV movie Spirit of the Game 2016 President Bingham Feature film

Title Year Role Type Carson's Law 1984 Worker at protest TV series The Fast Lane 1985 Derek TV series Trapp, Winkle and Box 1985 Various TV series A Thousand Skies 1985 Hotel Receptionist in San Francisco TV miniseries Anzacs 1985 Young Dying German TV miniseries The Eleventh Hour 1985 Various characters (including Bert Newton) TV series Prisoner 1984 86 Peter Waterson / Steve Formby / Restaurateur TV series Sword of Honour 1986 Sergeant Olsen TV miniseries The Petrov Affair 1987 West TV miniseries Willing and Abel 1987 Sergeant Dobson TV series The Comedy Company 1988 Con the Fruiterer / Stuart Parkington Loafe / Marika Dikaletis (Con's Wife) TV series Larger than Life 1990 Various Characters TV series The Big Time 1990 Mark TV series Good Vibrations 1992 W. C. Fields TV miniseries Lift Off 1992 Mr. Fish TV series E Street 1992 Uncle Wally TV series Paradise Beach 1993 Shirley Barnett TV series Fallout 1995 David Lange TV miniseries The Genie from Down Under 1996 Otto von Meister TV series Con's Bewdiful Holiday Videos 1997 Con the Fruiterer / Marika TV series The Genie From Down Under 2 1998 Otto von Meister / Mrs Simpson TV series Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers 1998 Voice Animated TV series Something in the Air 2000 Neville McGregor TV series SeaChange 2000 Morton Tregonnine TV series Round the Twist 1992–2001 Mr. Gribble TV series The Wonderful World of Disney 2001 Griff TV series Blonde 2001 Texas Oilman TV miniseries Farscape 2001 Mu Quillus TV series Blue Heelers 2004 Arnold Robinson TV series Eagle and Evans 2005 Ron Salisbury TV series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King 2006 Blondie TV miniseries The Nation 2007 Con the Fruiterer TV series Neighbours 2010 Magistrate Paul O'Regan TV series Sleuth 101 2010 Ramsay McGordon TV series Taj 2011 Ben This Week Live 2013 Guest TV series The Flamin' Thongs 2014 Trevor Thong (voice) Animated TV series Upper Middle Bogan 2014 Dr. Mortimer TV series Movement 2016 Casting Agent Dave TV series The Wizards of Aus 2016 Senator Quinn TV series Jack Irish 2016 Radio Host TV series The Doctor Blake Mysteries 2016 Harvey Treloar TV series True Story with Hamish & Andy 2018 Dr. Beatson TV series American Eggs 2018 Driver TV series Feedback Narrator / Charles Bukowski TV series New Gold Mountain 2021 Linus Cummins TV miniseries