Personal Info
Birth date
1943-11-23 (81 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Also known as
-Tony Bonner
Biography
Tony Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, later moving on to lead roles in the dramas Cop Shop and Skyways.
Filmography
Homicide
4.3
Overview:
Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Power Without Glory
5
Overview:
Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as a multi-millionaire some sixty years later.The Persuaders!
7.6
Overview:
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.E Street
6
Overview:
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.Carson's Law
5
Overview:
Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1983-1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson. The episodes revolved around the cases taken on by Jennifer, and the various personal intrigues of her family. The series' premiere was billed as a 90-minute "movie-length" episode on 24 January 1983, with another two-hour episode in the same timeslot the following night, before settling into its twice-weekly 60-minute (with ads) format the following week. Carson's Law was noted for its quality scripts and period production values, however although the programme was very popular in Melbourne where the series was based and filmed, it did not succeed in Sydney. It was cancelled in 1984 after 184 episodes with the final episode airing on ATV-10 on 1 December 1984.Bluey
6
Overview:
At Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, Sgt. "Bluey" Hills, unable to work within the existing police squads, oversees Department B. They're assigned cases other departments could not readily solve by conventional means, with Hills applying his unconventional methods to bring about their resolution. Bluey's investigations are supported by newly assigned Gary Dawson, long-time cohort Monica Rourke, and undercover officer Reg Truscott, who spends his time ostensibly working as a small-time burglar, and supplying Bluey with information on the activities of local criminals.Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
5.6
Overview:
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.Cop Shop
6
Overview:
Cop Shop is a long running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for eight seasons between 1977 and 1984. It comprised 582 one hour episodes.The Last Frontier
7
Overview:
Following a whirlwind courtship, a single mother from Los Angeles marries an Australian cattle rancher. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children but dies before they arrive, leaving his widow to deal with a debt-ridden ranch and land-grabbing neighbors.The Evil Touch
5.5
Overview:
The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where each episode had a self-contained story and a new set of characters. Each episode feature a new cast of guest actors, although several guest stars appeared in more than one episode, playing different characters. Each story is a thriller or horror story of some variety, ranging from tales of the occult and the supernatural, science fiction horror stories, to more standard murder schemes and whodunits. Most stories feature a twist ending.Shit Creek
NYR
Overview:
When a small time crook clocks out after a freak accident in a Sydney pub, it's left to his two sons to pick up his debt to the mob. They have six weeks to cough up a 100 grand or they'll find themselves without their favourite appendages.Anzacs
6.7
Overview:
Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war.Quigley Down Under
6.681
Overview:
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.The Man from Snowy River
6.927
Overview:
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 to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.The Lighthorsemen
6.1
Overview:
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.Eyewitness
6.2
Overview:
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?Hurricane Smith
4.412
Overview:
An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.You Can't Win 'Em All
5.8
Overview:
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
5.2
Overview:
Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady spy. Relying on his wits and her tantalizing skill at belly dancing, the daring duo works desperately to defuse the explosives placed in the city's vital water wells by the occupying Turks. The story culminates in a spectacular cavalry charge by the gallant soldiers of the Australian Lighthorsemen Regiment, whose very survival hinges on the success of Indy's mission.Money Movers
6.2
Overview:
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.Landfall
4
Overview:
A young couple in tropical Australia is trapped in their home by three fugitives carrying a mysterious icebox containing unknown contents, and they must rely on their wits and cunning to survive as a severe tropical cyclone looms.William Kelly's War
5.818
Overview:
When WW1 breaks out, farm boys, Billy (Josh Davis) and Jack Kelly (Mathew John Davis), along with their cousin, Paddy (Lachie Hume), sign up, and are shipped out to serve in Europe. With Billy a dead-eye shot with a rifle, the boys are soon set up as a sniper team, mowing down Germans and Turks like nobody’s business. They become heroes, but back home, the family farm is being circled by a gang of cattle thieves, meaning that even when the war ends, the blood is set to keep flowing.Creatures the World Forgot
5.038
Overview:
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.They're a Weird Mob
6
Overview:
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.The Highest Honour
5.7
Overview:
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.Inn of the Damned
4.2
Overview:
A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out.Liquid Bridge
2.5
Overview:
Nick McCallum is mechanic who trades in his wrench for a surfboard, going against the wishes of his father– a former surfing legend who lost his ability to walk after a horrible accident on the water.The Alternative
2
Overview:
Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.Acting
TBAIsland in the Stars as Squire Huntingfeld
2020Naked World as Unknown
2017Landfall as Trevor
2015Shit Creek (8 Episodes) as Diamond Jack
2014William Kelly's War as Mr. Kelly
2008Punishment as Unknown
2003Liquid Bridge as Bob McCallum
2003Money Shot as Roger Hammond
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert as Bouchier
1998Shadows of Paradise as Andy Little
1996Academy as Jack Steele
1992Hurricane Smith as Howard Fenton
1992Dead Sleep as Dr. Jonthan Heckett
1990Quigley Down Under as Dobkin
1989E Street (4 Episodes) as Roger Tate
1987The Lighthorsemen as Col. Murray Bourchier
1986The Last Frontier (2 Episodes) as Tom Hannon
1985Anzacs (6 Episodes) as Harold Armstrong
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as First Secretary Henry Claymore
1983Carson's Law (25 Episodes) as Chris Dalton
1982The Highest Honour as Lieutenant W.G. Carey
1982The Man from Snowy River as Kane
1980Hard Knocks as Unknown
1979Skyways (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1978Money Movers as Leo Bassett
1978Image of Death as Carl
1977The Mango Tree as Captain Hinkler
1977Cop Shop (26 Episodes) as Detective Snr Con. Don McKenna
1977The Alternative as Peter
1976Bluey (1 Episode) as James Conder
1976Power Without Glory (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1975Inn of the Damned as Trooper Moore
1973The Evil Touch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971The Persuaders! (1 Episode) as Jon
1971Creatures the World Forgot as Toomak
1970You Can't Win 'Em All as Reese
1970Eyewitness as Tom Jones
1969Skippy and the Intruders as Jerry King
1968Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (91 Episodes) as Jerry King
1966They're a Weird Mob as Lifesaver
1964Homicide (1 Episode) as Denny Connell