Vincent Ball

Vincent Ball (born 4 December 1923, Wee Waa, New South Wales) is an Australian character actor. He served as a pilot with the Royal Australian Air Force in England, before entering amateur dramatics and repertory. He was given a role as a stand-in in the 1949 film The Blue Lagoon. Joining RADA, he played mostly supporting and uncredited roles in the UK for two decades. Returning to Australia in the 1970s, he performed in a variety of cinema and television roles before retiring in 2003. In April 2015, at the age of 91, he returned to play a WWII veteran in an episode of the Australian soap Home and Away.^[1]

Television

His television credits include: Compact, Home and Away, Man in a Suitcase, The Troubleshooters, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, The Flying Doctors, A Country Practice, Against the Wind, Anzacs, Grass Roots and All Saints and a recurring role on the long-running UK soap opera Crossroads.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Dangerous Voyage (1954)
• A Town Like Alice (1956)
• Face in the Night (1957)
• Robbery Under Arms (1957)
• Blood of the Vampire (1958)
• Sea of Sand (1958)
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
• Danger Within (1959)
• Feet of Clay (1960)
• Dead Lucky (1960)
• Identity Unknown (1960)
• Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)
• A Matter of WHO (1961)
• Carry On Cruising (1962)
• Follow That Camel (1967)
• Where Eagles Dare (1968)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• Not Tonight Darling (1971)
• Clinic Exclusive (1971)
• Lindsay's Boy (1974)
• Breaker Morant (1980)
• The Highest Honour (1982)
• Phar Lap (1983)
• The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
• Hot Ice (1987)
• Sirens (1994)
• Muriel's Wedding (1994)
• Paradise Road (1997)
• The Man Who Sued God (2001)

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