Anthony Hawkins
| Anthony Hawkins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 30, 1932 England |
| Died | September 23, 2013 (aged 80) Kyneton, Victoria |
| Occupation | Television actor |
| Years active | 1974-2003 |
Anthony Hawkins (30 September 1932 - 23 September 2013), was an English born, Australian based television actor. He was best known for his roles as Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Smith in the police procedural Special Squad (1984) and Frank diAngelo on The Saddle Club. He also had a recurring role in Prisoner as Bob Morris from 1980 to 1982.
He trained as an actor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama following a brief stint working as a policeman in England.
He was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978.
He also appeared in the play "The Happy Apple", staged at St Martins Theatre in Melbourne in the early 1970s. He toured the United States with "Alfie", played in "Birds on the Wing" in Melbourne, and "Bandwagon" in Hobart.
Early TV work was in the United Kingdom and included an appearance as a police constable in the television series No Hiding Place in 1959. He also acted in Scotland Yard. His TV work in Australia included Ryan and Perryman on Parade, and frequent appearances on police dramas including Matlock Police, Division 4, Homicide. In 1978, he made his film debut in a minor role in Brian De Palma's The Fury. During the next two years, he starred in the television miniseries Against the Wind and The Last Outlaw and appeared in police series Bluey (1976) before appearing in the soap opera Prisoner. Introduced as Bob Morris, the father of inmate Tracey Morris (Sue Devine), he eventually became a recurring character after the on-screen marriage of Bob Morris to Meg Jackson (Elspeth Ballantyne). He stayed with the series on an irregular basis until 1982, when he was written out entirely. That same year he made a cameo appearance with a number of his fellow Prisoner co-stars in the film Kitty and the Bagman.
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