Terence Donovan (actor)

Terence Donovan (born 28 October 1942), also known as Terry Donovan, is an English-born Australian actor and the father of fellow actor and entertainer Jason Donovan. He has had major roles in many Australian TV drama series, including Division 4, Cop Shop, Prisoner, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours.

Television roles

Donovan began his acting career in 1966, where he had a guest role in Bat Out of Hell. In 1969, he played Senior Detective Mick Peters in Division 4, a popular Australian show at the time. In 1976, he played in a popular mini series adaptation of the novel Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy. From 1979 to 1981, he starred in Cop Shop. Between 1981 and 1984, he had minor roles in Australian television programs, and acted in the film The Man from Snowy River in 1982, playing Henry Craig. In 1985, he had roles in Prisoner and Sons and Daughters. From 1986 to 1989, he had more minor television roles. In 1990, he played Doug Willis in Neighbours until 1994, and made a brief appearance in 2005, when he reprised his role for the show's 20th anniversary special.

Stage roles

He played the title role of Harry 'Breaker' Morant in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978. In the UK in the mid-1990s Donovan played Captain Hook in a successful UK tour of a musical version of Peter Pan alongside co-stars Nicola Stapleton, famous for her role in Eastenders and a young Laurence Mark Wythe (who has since gone on to become a successful composer and lyricist in musical theatre). In 2007 Donovan performed the role of Boswell in the Magnormos production of Mary Bryant.

External links

• Terence Donovan at the Internet Movie Database
• Screenshots of Donovan on Neighbours