Jon Ewing
Jon Douglas Ewing (6 October 1936 – 14 March 2014) was an Australian actor and director best known for his stage work.
Life and career[]
Ewing was born in Paddington, New South Wales and attended Sydney Boys High School. He studied under Hayes Gordon and in 1958 helped to establish the Ensemble Theatre.[1]
He played Albin in the 1985 original Australian cast of La Cage aux Folles, for which he received a Green Room Award. Other stage roles include Camelot, Cabaret, Tarantara! Tarantara!, The Threepenny Opera, Candide, The Venetian Twins, Sweeney Todd, Nicholas Nickleby and The Phantom of The Opera.[1]
His screen roles include The Last Bastion and Bliss (for which he was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role).
He appeared on TV in Waterloo Station, Homicide, A Country Practice, The Mavis Bramston Show and Consider Your Verdict.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Jon Ewing: Actor who could light up the stage mourned". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
- ^ Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, p. 158, at Google Books
External links[]
- 1936 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century Australian male actors