Jimmy Little

Born: 1937-03-01

Description taken from English Wikipedia. James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 1937 – 2 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher, who was a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe and was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, New South Wales. Little started his professional career in 1951, as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, which spanned six decades. For many years he was the main Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. His music was influenced by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis and American country music artist Jim Reeves. His gospel song "Royal Telephone" (1963) sold over 75,000 copies, and his most popular album, Messenger, peaked at No. 26 in 1999 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, Little was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and won an ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album. On Australia Day (26 January) 2004, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia with the citation, "For service to the entertainment industry as a singer, recording artist and songwriter and to the community through reconciliation and as an ambassador for Indigenous culture". As an actor, he appeared in the films Shadow of the Boomerang (1960) and Until the End of the World (1991), in the theatre production Black Cockatoos and in the opera Black River. As a teacher, from 1985, he worked at the Eora Centre in Redfern and from 2000 was a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney's Koori Centre.


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Until the End of the World

as Peter
Released: 1991-09-12

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers,...

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Hey, Rookie

as Bert Pfeiffer
Released: 1944-04-06

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The Sleeping City

as Police Det. Travers (uncredited)
Released: 1950-09-20

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Fright

as Joe the Bartender
Released: 1956-09-01

A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile,...

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Taxi

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1953-01-21

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.

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Eadie Was a Lady

as Jim Tuttle
Released: 1945-01-24

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Shadow of the Boomerang

as Johnny
Released: 1961-08-07

An American brother and sister move to Australia to manage a cattle station, but the brother's...

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Somewhere in the Darkness

as The Bushman
Released: 1999-01-25

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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

as Singer
Released: 1990-12-31

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The Bob Hope Show

as Self
First aired: 1950-04-09

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self / MSgt. Francis Grover
First aired: 1948-06-20

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The Phil Silvers Show

as MSgt. Francis Grover
First aired: 1955-09-20

The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, was a sitcom which ran on CBS...

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