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Ian Smith is a Actor Australien born on 19 june 1938 at Melbourne (Australie)

Ian Smith

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Nationality Australie
Birth 19 june 1938 (86 years) at Melbourne (Australie)

Ian Smith (born 19 June 1938) is an Australian soap opera character actor, television producer (associate) and television screenwriter, best known today for his long-running itinerant role as the caring, kindly coffee shop owner Harold Bishop in the soap opera Neighbours, since 1987, when the series was taken over by Network Ten.

Biography

Smith was 54 when his mother Connie Smith, realising she had twenty-four hours to live, finally admitted to him that he had been adopted. After her death, Smith went in search of his natural mother Peg Kline, whom he finally found. According to Kline's story, Smith was conceived when she was fourteen, the product of rape, and was put up for adoption. Kline eventually married and had two children from this marriage. She never told anyone besides her husband about her first son until she was contacted by Smith via a letter.

She contacted his wife Gail Smith, who mentioned that her husband was a prominent Neighbours actor, to which Kline replied, "I've never seen Neighbours in my life". Smith and Kline were reunited and he has built a strong relationship with his mother and two half-brothers, although Smith says that he doesn't feel a mother–son relationship. He calls Kline "one of my best friends". Peg Kline died in May 2005 after a battle with cancer.
Smith was believed to have first told the story to the public in an exclusive interview on the biographical documentary series Australian Story on March 2005. However, he had actually revealed much of this in a BBC interview some years before.

Usually with

Lesley Baker
Lesley Baker
(2 films)
Tony Barry
Tony Barry
(1 films)
Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan
(1 films)
Cliff Green
Cliff Green
(1 films)
Frank Howson
Frank Howson
(1 films)
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Filmography of Ian Smith (4 films)

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Body Melt
Body Melt (1994)
, 1h21
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Cyberpunk films
Actors Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Vincent Gil, Matthew Newton, Lesley Baker
Roles Dr. Carrera
Rating53% 2.650692.650692.650692.650692.65069
The film is about the residents of the small town of Pebbles Court who are the unknowing test subjects for a new variety of "Vimuville" dietary supplement pills that arrive for free in their mailboxes. The pills are designed to produce the ultimate healthy human, but have unexpected side effects including hallucinations and mutations. Despite the attempts made to warn the townsfolk from a previous test subject, who is now undergoing rapid cellular decay, he arrives too late, and crashes his car and is killed by tentacles growing out of his throat. The pills are consumed by the residents, and produce liquefying flesh, elongated tongues, exploding stomachs, exploding penises, imploding heads, monstrous births, tentacles growing out of the face, living mucus, sentient placentas, and other gruesome mutations. Ultimately more and more of the residents of the Pebbles Court mutate or die horrific deaths, until almost every character has been dispatched.
I Can Jump Puddles, 48minutes
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Tony Barry, Lesley Baker, Olivia Brown, Debra Lawrance, Lisa Aldenhoven
Roles Mr. Slade
Rating80% 4.0478654.0478654.0478654.0478654.047865
Based on Alan Marshall's three-part autobiography I Can Jump Puddles (1955), This is the Grass (1962) and In Mine Own Heart (1963), the film tells of Marshall's childhood growing up in rural Victoria during the turn of the century. Contracting polio soon after attending school, the story retells the obstacles he faced as a child in trying to overcome his disability. As an adult, he later encounters prejudice from his debilitating disease while looking for work in Melbourne.