Martin Vaughan

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Martin Vaughan (born 5 June 1931)[1] is an Australian stage, television and film actor. He is perhaps most notable for his lead role in the award-winning 26-part 1976 television series Power Without Glory.

Career

Martin Kevin Vaughan was born in Brisbane, Queensland to a vaudeville comedian father. Moving to Sydney, New South Wales at age 14, he was employed initially as a bassoon player. After taking theatre production classes, he landed his first stage role in 1964, when he was aged 33, and was never out of work.[2]

He moved into television in 1973. In 1975 he won the Hoyts Prize for Best Performance by an Actor at the AFI Awards, for his role of Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes[3] in Billy and Percy. This was a tied result with Jack Thompson's role in Sunday Too Far Away.[1] (His continuing interest in Billy Hughes led some years later to the revelation that Hughes's daughter Helen had died in childbirth in London; in 2004 he presented an ABC program on the story.[4])

His big break came in 1976, when he was chosen to play the lead role of John West in the ABC's 26-part television adaptation of Frank Hardy's novel Power Without Glory. In 1977 he won the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor for this role.[1] He has since appeared in such television programs as The Dismissal (1983 miniseries; as Senator Albert Field),[1] Come In Spinner (1989-90 miniseries), Water Rats, Blue Heelers, All Saints, The Flying Doctors, Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries), and headLand.[2] His feature films include Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Letters from Poland (1978), We of the Never Never (1982), Phar Lap (1983) and The Man Who Sued God (2001).[1][2]

Later years

Vaughan completed a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Film at the age of 60, at the University of New South Wales.[2] He is now mainly retired, but occasionally agrees to take part in theatre roles that interest him, such as "Brian" in The Seed.

Award nominations

In 1983 he was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role, for Phar Lap (as Phar Lap's trainer Harry Telford), and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Winds of Jarrah.[1] In 2007, he received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for best supporting actor in The Seed.[2]

Select Credits

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IMdB: Martin Vaughan
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 North Shore Times, 24 July 2011
  3. ↑ ABC Television, Billy Hughes's Family Secret
  4. ↑ ABC "Rewind: Billy Hughes's Family Secret"
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