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Ronald Norman Haddrick MBE AM (9 April 1929 – 11 February 2020) was an Australian actor, narrator and South Australian cricketer. In 2012, he received the Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement Award for his long and distinguished career in media, spanning some seventy years both locally and also in Britain.
Ron Haddrick (1929-2020) was an Australian actor who appeared in films, TV shows, and theatre. He also played cricket for South Australia and performed in Shakespeare plays in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
May 16, 2020 · Accomplished actor Ron Haddrick was the star of The Stranger, which hit TV screens in 1964. In an impressive career spanning more than 65 years, on radio, stage and screen, he regarded his performance as Adam Suisse, a mysterious visitor from space, as one of his finest and most important roles.
Ron Haddrick was born on April 9, 1929 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He was an actor, known for Quigley Down Under (1990), Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens (1972) and Water Rats (1996). He died on February 11, 2020 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- April 9, 1929
- February 11, 2020
Mar 2, 2020 · Ron Haddrick turned away from a promising cricketing career when he was offered the chance to join what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon by actor/director Anthony Quayle.
Feb 26, 2020 · Ron Haddrick was one of Australia’s gentlemen actors whose 60-plus year career spanned radio plays in Adelaide, Shakespeare in Britain alongside Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and John Gielgud, and theatre in Australia with John Bell and Ruth Cracknell.
A collection of handwritten notes on theatrical memories of Ron Haddrick, an Australian actor and writer who was Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1985. The notes are part of the Special Collections at UNSW Canberra and are open for access and copying.
