Tommy Dysart

Tommy Dysart

Tommy Dysart (24 December 1935 - 7 June 2022) was a Scottish-born actor, currently resident in Australia. Dysart has been a regular fixture on Australian television for several decades, frequently appearing in guest-starring roles in drama series and comedies, and in character roles in films and miniseries. High-profile early roles included appearances in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Phoenix Five, and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police. In the early 1980s he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and corrupt prison officer Jock Stewart in Prisoner. In the storyline, after being fired from the prison service Stewart admitted to prisoner Judy Bryant that he was the one responsible for murdering her lesbian lover, fellow prisoner Sharon Gilmour. This revelation brought to a close a murder-mystery storyline in the series but launched a long-running story-arc where Bryant repeatedly escaped from prison in a succession of attempts to exact her revenge on Stewart. After this Dysart continued in guest-starring television roles in drama series and situation comedies, and appeared in many feature films. His films included The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996). Television roles of the 1990s included appearances in All Together Now, The Games, State Coroner, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air and Neighbours. He also provided the voice for Captain Griswald in Anthony Lucas' animated short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005). Starting in the 1990s he appeared in a series of well remembered advertisements for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil. He was also known for playing a recurring character of a Mafia-boss like butcher in advertisements for Don's Smallgoods. In the early 2000s he continued his Goggomobil persona advertising Shannons Insurance. The concept played on the role of a person searching for the car parts as any car enthusiast would. Telstra challenged this in the Supreme Court and Shannons withdrew the advertisements, but continued with Dysart and the accent (which Dysart insisted was his own and could not change). The adverts continue and Shannons Insurance also owns several of the Goggomobil cars which feature regularly in their shows. Tommy has enjoyed a long friendship and working relationship with director/writer Frank Howson in the movies Backstage, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, What The Moon Saw, Flynn, Crime Time, The Final Stage, The Lucky Country, and their most recent collaboration is the award winning film Remembering Nigel, which also stars Tommy's wife Joan and son Kole. He was married to Australian actress Joan Brockenshire.

  • Title: Tommy Dysart
  • Popularity: 1.156
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1935-12-24
  • Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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  • Also Known As: Tom Dysaght, Tom Dysart, Thomas Dysart
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Tommy Dysart Movies

  • 1982
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    The Man from Snowy River

    The Man from Snowy River

    6.9 1982 HD

    Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands...

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  • 2005
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    The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

    The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

    7 2005 HD

    Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial...

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  • 1986
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    Sky Pirates

    Sky Pirates

    5 1986 HD

    Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial...

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  • 2001
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    Four Jacks

    Four Jacks

    4 2001 HD

    Four guys plot revenge on the businessman who ripped them off.

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  • 1985
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    I Live With Me Dad

    I Live With Me Dad

    1 1985 HD

    Peter Hehir plays full-time loser Sid McCall, professional vagrant and alcoholic on the skids. Haydon Samuels is his young son Christopher who lives...

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  • 1990
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    What the Moon Saw

    What the Moon Saw

    1 1990 HD

    Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn...

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  • 1997
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    River Street

    River Street

    1 1997 HD

    Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the...

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  • 1965
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    The Big Killing

    The Big Killing

    1 1965 HD

    Peter Ashbury is a young man who lives on Palm Beach, Sydney, with an expensive wife Mary and house he cannot afford. Their neighbours and close...

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  • 1982
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    Next of Kin

    Next of Kin

    6.3 1982 HD

    After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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  • 1994
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    Metal Skin

    Metal Skin

    5.9 1994 HD

    Psycho Joe loves one thing: fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol...

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  • 1994
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    Body Melt

    Body Melt

    5.204 1994 HD

    Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body...

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  • 1985
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    Bliss

    Bliss

    6.5 1985 HD

    An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother,...

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  • 1992
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    Garbo

    Garbo

    1 1992 HD

    Comedy about two Australian garbage collectors starring Los Trios Ringbarkus.

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  • 1993
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    Blue Heelers

    Blue Heelers

    6.6 1993 HD

    Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional...

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  • 1991
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    All Together Now

    All Together Now

    6.4 1991 HD

    All Together Now was an Australian sitcom that was broadcast on Nine Network between 1991 and 1993. The premise involved an ageing rocker trying to...

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  • 1982
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    Come Midnight Monday

    Come Midnight Monday

    1 1982 HD

    Come Midnight Monday is a 1982 Australian childrens TV series.

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  • 1979
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    Prisoner: Cell Block H

    Prisoner: Cell Block H

    7.6 1979 HD

    Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.071 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.071 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 1998
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    The Games

    The Games

    7 1998 HD

    The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC...

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  • 1994
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    The Man from Snowy River

    The Man from Snowy River

    6.6 1994 HD

    The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo...

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  • 1985
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    Zoo Family

    Zoo Family

    7 1985 HD

    Follows a family who live at Melbourne Zoo in Victoria, Australia. Doctor David Mitchell is the zoo's veterinarian. His children Nick and Susie love...

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  • 1980
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    The Last Outlaw

    The Last Outlaw

    5 1980 HD

    An unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask of armour. But beyond the armour, behind the eyes was...

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  • 1964
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    4.3 1964 HD

    Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various...

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  • 1991
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    Kelly

    Kelly

    10 1991 HD

    Kelly is a Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 1991. The series was produced by Jonathan M. Shiff...

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  • 1984
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    Eureka Stockade

    Eureka Stockade

    3 1984 HD

    Eureka Stockade is a 1984 Australian miniseries based on the battle of Eureka Stockade. It reunited the producer, writer, director and star of A Town...

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  • 1968
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    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    5.5 1968 HD

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various...

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  • 1982
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    Women of the Sun

    Women of the Sun

    1 1982 HD

    Follows the lives and struggles of four generations Australian Aboriginal women from the 1820s to the 1980s.

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  • 1980
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    Water Under the Bridge

    Water Under the Bridge

    1 1980 HD

    Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.

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  • 1997
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    Good Guys, Bad Guys

    Good Guys, Bad Guys

    6.5 1997 HD

    Good Guys, Bad Guys was an Australian crime TV series that screened on the Nine Network between 1997 and 1998, with a telemovie and twenty-six...

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