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Tommy Dysart

Tommy Dysart

Actor · Born 1935-12-24 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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Biography

Tommy Dysart (24 December 1935 - 7 June 2022) was a Scottish-born actor, currently resident in Australia. Dysart has been a regular fixture on Australian television for several decades, frequently appearing in guest-starring roles in drama series and comedies, and in character roles in films and miniseries. High-profile early roles included appearances in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Phoenix Five, and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police. In the early 1980s he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and corrupt prison officer Jock Stewart in Prisoner. In the storyline, after being fired from the prison service Stewart admitted to prisoner Judy Bryant that he was the one responsible for murdering her lesbian lover, fellow prisoner Sharon Gilmour. This revelation brought to a close a murder-mystery storyline in the series but launched a long-running story-arc where Bryant repeatedly escaped from prison in a succession of attempts to exact her revenge on Stewart. After this Dysart continued in guest-starring television roles in drama series and situation comedies, and appeared in many feature f…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Man from Snowy River (1982) — Mountain Man
  2. Next of Kin (1982) — Harry
  3. Body Melt (1994) — Sergeant
  4. The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005) — Captain Griswald (voice)
  5. Prisoner (1979) — Jock Stewart
  6. Round the Twist (1990) — Bus Driver
  7. Bliss (1985) — De Vere
  8. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968) — Andrews
  9. Blue Heelers (1993)
  10. The Flying Doctors (1986) — Inspector Day
  11. Sky Pirates (1986) — Bartender
  12. The Man from Snowy River (1994) — Mr. Couch
  13. Metal Skin (1994) — Mr. Graham
  14. The Clinic (1983) — Patient
  15. Strange Fits of Passion (2000) — Taxi Driver
  16. All Together Now (1991)
  17. The Games (1998) — Taxi Driver
  18. Homicide (1964) — Nicolo Rogowski
  19. Good Guys, Bad Guys (1997) — Athol Amoroso
  20. Four Jacks (2001)
  21. River Street (1997) — Sergeant
  22. Zoo Family (1985) — McGregor
  23. The Last Outlaw (1980) — Superintendant
  24. Kelly (1991) — Sgt. Terry Blake
  25. Eureka Stockade (1984) — Tom Kennedy
  26. I Live With Me Dad (1985) — Griffin
  27. What the Moon Saw (1990) — Skip
  28. Garbo (1992) — Bagpipes
  29. Friday on My Mind (1990)
  30. Women of the Sun (1982) — Joe
  31. Water Under the Bridge (1980) — Hamish
  32. The Big Killing (1965) — Sgt. Basset
  33. Come Midnight Monday (1982)