Charles Tingwell
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Charles William (Bud) Tingwell AM |
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| Born |
Charles William Tingwell 3 January 1923 Coogee, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 15 May 2009 (aged 86) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Cause of death | Prostate cancer |
| Education | Sydney Grammar School |
| Occupation | Actor, radio announcer, pilot |
| Years active | 1941–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | Audrey May Wilson (m. 1951; d. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | William Harvey and Enid (née Green) Tingwell |
| Awards |
Logie Hall of Fame Inductee (1994) Raymond Longford Award (1998) Member of the Order of Australia (1999) Australian Film Walk of Fame Inductee (2008) |
Charles William "Bud" Tingwell AM (3 January 1923 – 15 May 2009) was an Australian film, television, theatre and radio actor. One of the veterans of Australian film, he acted in his first motion picture in 1946 and went on to appear in more than 100 films and numerous TV programmes in both the United Kingdom and Australia.
Tingwell was born in the Sydney suburb of Coogee, the son of William Harvey Tingwell and Enid (née Green). As an adolescent, his father encouraged him to be an accountant, but Tingwell failed the entrance exam. While still at school, he became a cadet at Sydney radio station 2CH, soon becoming the youngest radio announcer in Australia.
In 1941, aged 18, Tingwell volunteered for war service overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, personnel from Commonwealth air forces formed part of a joint training and assignment system. Consequently, Tingwell trained as a pilot in Canada during 1942. Despite damaging a Harvard training aircraft in August, he later qualified as a pilot and was commissioned as a pilot officer that December. He was posted to the Mediterranean Theatre and underwent operational training with No. 74 Operational Training Unit RAF, in British Palestine, and qualified to fly the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire.
On his reasons for going to war (2002):
Later, he was posted to a photo reconnaissance unit, No. 680 Squadron RAF, and flew 75 sorties in Mosquitos and Spitfires during the North African Campaign and the Allied invasion of Sicily. Other aircraft that Tingwell was qualified to fly included the Bristol Blenheim, Martin Baltimore, Bristol Beaufighter and Airspeed Oxford. He was promoted to flying officer in June 1943 and flight lieutenant in December 1944.
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