Simon Burke
Simon Burke (born 8 October 1961) is an Australian actor. Burke began his acting career as a 13 year-old in the Australian film, The Devil's Playground for which he was awarded Best Actor at the 1976 Australian Film Institute Awards. He has since starred in numerous film, television and theatre productions in Australia and the UK. He starred as Captain Georg von Trapp in Rogers and Hammerstein's production of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium alongside Connie Fisher. Burke was Federal President of Actors Equity Australia (2004–2014) and currently a Vice President of the International Federation of Actors (FIA). Simon Burke is also well remembered for his long term stint as a presenter on the childrens television series Play School from 1988-2007 then 2013 and again in 2020.
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South Pacific
as HarbisonDuring World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and...
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The Devil's Playground
as Tom AllenA powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind...
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The Postcard Bandit
as ThomasThe story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent...
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Passion
as Herman SandbyPassion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual...
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The One That Got Away
as StanThe existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order...
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Slate, Wyn & Me
as Wyn JacksonMeandering drama of Brothers Burke and Sacks, who rob a bank, kill a cop and kidnap Thornton, a...
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Heroes' Mountain
as Euan DiverThe story of Stuart Diver, the only person to survive the 1997 Thredbo tragedy that came about...
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The Irishman
as Michael DoolanPaddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is...
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The Clinic
as PaulA comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.
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The Hidden History of Homosexual Australia
as Narrator (voice)A documentary on the impact of gay and lesbian people in Australia.
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The Alice
as PatrickAlice Springs is the scene of an enchanting date with destiny. Great planetary forces are at...
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The Flying Doctors
as Daryl StokesThe Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...
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Hustle
as NickA motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Wentworth
as Himself - HostBea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must...
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Nicholas MortimerOur lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting...
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Rescue: Special Ops
as Warren ThompsonRescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine...
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Thank God You're Here
as uncreditedEach episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by...
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Deep Water
as Simon MawbreyDetectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where...
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Young Lions
as Rob WatsonYoung Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in...
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Brides of Christ
as Jack DelahuntyDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to...
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Heroes II: The Return
as Capt. EllisHeroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War...
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Devil's Playground
as Tom AllenThe year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s...
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The Alice
as PatrickThe Alice was an Australian drama television series created by Justin Monjo and Robyn Sinclair....
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Always Afternoon
as TomAlways Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a...
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Crazy Fun Park
as MarkA shy teen wants desperately to fit in and enjoy his high school years if only his dead best...
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After the Deluge
as MichaelFollows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby...
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Scales of Justice
as Constable WebberScales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael...
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