
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.
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.
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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Character:Captain Griswald (voice)
Release Date:19/01/2005

Four Jacks
Character:
Release Date:07/08/2001

River Street
Character:Sergeant
Release Date:17/07/1997

Body Melt
Character:Sergeant
Release Date:28/10/1994

Metal Skin
Character:Mr. Graham
Release Date:21/02/1994

Garbo
Character:Bagpipes
Release Date:20/05/1992

What the Moon Saw
Character:Skip
Release Date:26/12/1990

Friday on My Mind
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1990

Sky Pirates
Character:Bartender
Release Date:16/01/1986

Bliss
Character:De Vere
Release Date:04/10/1985

I Live With Me Dad
Character:Griffin
Release Date:01/01/1985

Next of Kin
Character:Harry
Release Date:30/04/1982

The Man from Snowy River
Character:Mountain Man
Release Date:25/03/1982

The Big Killing
Character:Sgt. Basset
Release Date:21/04/1965

The Games
Character:Taxi Driver

Good Guys, Bad Guys
Character:Athol Amoroso

The Man from Snowy River
Character:Mr. Couch

Blue Heelers
Character:

Kelly
Character:Sgt. Terry Blake

All Together Now
Character:

Round the Twist
Character:Bus Driver

The Flying Doctors
Character:Inspector Day

The Flying Doctors
Character:Simpson

Zoo Family
Character:McGregor

Eureka Stockade
Character:Tom Kennedy

Women of the Sun
Character:Joe

Come Midnight Monday
Character:

The Last Outlaw
Character:Superintendant

Water Under the Bridge
Character:Hamish

Prisoner
Character:Jock Stewart

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character:Andrews

Homicide
Character:Nicolo Rogowski