John Lesley
LESLEY, John. (19*-) Actor. **
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Biography
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Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He starred in the Brickhill-Burke production of Alan Aykbourn’s trilogy, The Norman Conquests, separately titled Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden, at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1979 together with Jana Cilliers, Sandra Duncan, Dorothy-Ann Gould, Eckard Rabe and Bill Flynn under direction of Brian Rawlinson. He starred in The Bed, directed and adapted by Jimmy Logan, together with Melody O'Brian, Bruce Millar and Diane Appleby at the Academy in 1980. He starred in PACT’s production of Sheridan’s The Rivals together with John Hussey, Wilson Dunster, James White, Pamela Gien and Pauline Bailey directed by Michael Atkinson at the State Theatre in March 1983. He starred in Anyone for Denis? together with Erica Rogers which Keith Grenville directed for the Baxter Theatre at the Academy in 1983. He has appeared in Another Country and in Dry Rot. He starred in We’ll Meet Again at the Sound Stage in October 1989.
He was featured as the dotty bamk manager in Scotty Smith in television.
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1980/81
Tucker, 1997.
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