Personal Info
Birth date
1952-10-22 (72 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
Also known as
Τζον Χάουαρντ
John Howard
Biography
Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).
Filmography
Blue Heelers
6.6
Overview:
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7.464
Overview:
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.Mad Max: Fury Road
7.627
Overview:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.Pacific Blue
5.4
Overview:
Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes. Often compared as "Baywatch on bikes," the series enjoyed a popular run among the Network's viewers, and was popular in France, Israel, Sweden, Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, South America, Canada, Denmark, Poland, and other foreign markets.Water Rats
6.6
Overview:
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.The Flying Doctors
6.3
Overview:
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.All Saints
6.2
Overview:
Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.The Merger
5.8
Overview:
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.Colin from Accounts
7.428
Overview:
Ashley and Gordon are two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog. Flawed, funny people choosing each other and being brave enough to show their true self, scars and all, as they navigate life together.Bump
7.5
Overview:
An unexpected pregnancy complicates the lives of two families. The series centers around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby.In a Savage Land
5.2
Overview:
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.Blackrock
5.5
Overview:
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.The Highest Honour
5.8
Overview:
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.Evil Angels
6.732
Overview:
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.Jindabyne
5.5
Overview:
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.The Job
6.6
Overview:
Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He's struggling to balance a challenging personal life with a job that leaves him wondering on a daily basis if he is the last sane person in New York. His unconventional approach to his job makes him a great cop, even on the most trying days. The only thing he can't figure out is why, if he's the only sane guy around, everyone's always looking at him like he's crazy.Young Einstein
5.227
Overview:
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.Last Cab to Darwin
6.8
Overview:
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.SeaChange
7.8
Overview:
SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong. The director was Michael Carson. Filming was based at Barwon Heads, Victoria and St Leonards, Victoria, both locations being on the Bellarine Peninsula. A number of streets in the St Leonards Sea Change Estate have since been named to acknowledge some of the characters of the series. Many scenes were also filmed in Williamstown, including the exterior of the Williamstown Life Saving Club, which became the court house of Pearl Bay.Always Greener
NYR
Overview:
Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the 'Big Smoke'. Always Greener is the story of two families who actually dare to give it a go.Riley
5.2
Overview:
The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.Capone
5.9
Overview:
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.Janet King
6.8
Overview:
Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.The Girl from Tomorrow
7.1
Overview:
Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.The Man Who Sued God
6.4
Overview:
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.Japanese Story
6.4
Overview:
Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.Never Tell Me Never
5
Overview:
This is the true story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.The Games
7
Overview:
The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.Acting
2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga as The People Eater
2023Riley as Sports Broadcaster
2022Colin from Accounts (1 Episode) as Brian Crapp
2021Bump (1 Episode) as Hippy Baby Boomer
2019A Matter Of Principle as Unknown
2018The Merger as Bull Barlow
2018Frontier as Unknown
2017Get Krack!n (1 Episode) as Bill Langham
2017The Warriors (8 Episodes) as Bill Shepherd
2015Last Cab to Darwin as Simmo
2015Mad Max: Fury Road as The People Eater
2014Grace Under Water as Ken
2014Soul Mates (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2014Janet King (8 Episodes) as Steven Blakely
2006Jindabyne as Carl
2004Jessica (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2004A Man's Gotta Do as Eddy
2003Japanese Story as Richards
2003Take Away as Burgies CEO
2002The Road from Coorain as Angus
2001The Man Who Sued God as Edward Piggott
2001Always Greener (50 Episodes) as John Taylor
2001The Job (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999In a Savage Land as Rev Macgregor
1998The Games (1 Episode) as John Howard
1998SeaChange (47 Episodes) as Bob Jelly
1998Never Tell Me Never as Uncle Darryl
1998All Saints (239, 2 Episode) as Frank Campion, Jonathan Healy
1997Blackrock as Len Kirby
1996Dating the Enemy as Davis
1996Pacific Blue (1 Episode) as Dwayne Farrell
1996Water Rats (2 Episodes) as D/S Sven Larsen
1993Blue Heelers (1 Episode) as Michael Fielding
1993Joh's Jury as Hedley
1992The Girl from Tomorrow (24 Episodes) as Silverthorn
1988Young Einstein as Preston Preston
1988Evil Angels as Lyle Morris
1988Around the World in Eighty Ways as Dr. Proctor
1986The Flying Doctors (1 Episode) as Mike Stone
1984Strikebound as Bashed Scab
1984Razorback as Danny
1983Bush Christmas as Sly
1983Gary's Story as Gary
1982The Highest Honour as Captain R. C. Page
1981A Town Like Alice (1 Episode) as Donald Paget
1980Water Under the Bridge (9 Episodes) as Archie
1980The Club as Geoff Hayward
1975Capone as Warden J. Johnston
Visual Effects
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