Shane Porteous
| Shane Porteous | |
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| Born |
John Shane Porteous 17 August 1942 Coleraine, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Queensland University |
| Occupation | Television actor Scriptwriter (Silver Logie Award Recipient) |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Known for | A Country Practice |
| Spouse(s) | Jenny |
| Children | 3 |
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John Shane Porteous (born 17 August 1942) is an Australian television character actor, TV screenplay scriptwriter, theatre actor, animation layout artist and animation voice artist. As a scriptwriter, he is sometimes credited as "John Hanlon". He remains best known for his long running role in A Country Practice as town doctor Dr Terence Elliot.
Shane Porteous was born in 1942, to pilot Stanley Porteous and his wife.
Porteous is best known for playing original character Dr Terence Elliott in the television drama series A Country Practice during its twelve-year run on the Seven Network (1981-93), a role for which he won the Silver Logie award in 1992. He has also won AWGIE Awards for his various scriptwriting projects.
Other TV credits include Catch Kandy, Homicide, Matlock Police, Certain Women 1973-76, The Box in 1974, Number 96 in 1977, Glenview High, The Restless Years, Neighbours, Home and Away, Blue Heelers and Heartbreak High.
He has also written scripts for several television series, including Neighbours and Home and Away, sometimes under the name "John Hanlon".
Porteous has performed in many stage plays, among them Hamlet, Death of a Salesman (1970), the Sydney Theatre Company's production of King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing. In June 2010 he completed a touring performance of Codgers with Ron Haddrick among others.
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