Ron Haddrick
| Ron Haddrick AM MBE | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ronald Norman Haddrick 9 April 1929 Adelaide, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1946–present |
| Spouse(s) | [Margaret] Lorraine (née Quigley) |
Ronald Norman Haddrick AM MBE, (born 9 April 1929) is a former Australian cricketer and Australian theatre, television, film and voice actor. In 2012 he received an Equity Lifetime Achievement Award for his long and distinguished career in those media.
Haddrick was born in Adelaide, Australia, the only son of Olive May (née Gibson) and Alexander Norman Haddrick. Haddrick's wife, Lorraine, received the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 for her "outstanding dedication to athletics as a volunteer official for 32 years". They have two children: NIDA graduate Lynette Haddrick and screenwriter and producer Greg Haddrick.
As a sportsman, Haddrick played First Class Cricket during the 1950s and went on to represent South Australia on three occasions in the Sheffield Shield competition.
Haddrick first appeared on the stage in 1946 at the Adelaide Tivoli Theatre. Later, He was invited to join the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now the Royal Shakespeare Company). On his return to Sydney, roles followed with the Trust Players, and when the Old Tote Theatre Company formed, Haddrick played in over forty productions.
Haddrick has worked extensively in radio and TV throughout his career, notably for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He made an early television appearance in the 1960 television play Close to the Roof. He had his first starring TV role as the alien "Adam Suisse" in G K Saunders' pioneering children's science fiction series The Stranger, broadcast on the ABC in 1964-65. In 1969, he voiced Ebenezer Scrooge for an Australian produced A Christmas Carol, giving way to more work along the same lines in the Australian animation field in 1977 with a shorter version of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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