Where Are They Now? - Kingswood Country (1980) Discussion

Well i don't know about the rest of the cast, but the actress who played Greta is my auntie and she lives in Sydney.

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[–] gut-6 18 years ago

It's funny, for some reason I always thought Greta was played by Gretel Killeen. Perhaps it was because of the similarity of Greta/Gretel/Laurel and scottishness of both Gretel's & Laurel's surname and vague physical resemblance. I was quite surprised to look it up after 20 years and find how much my mind was playing tricks on me.

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[–] IanGorton 18 years ago

Was she also in the Men AT Work - Down Under Video as the gypsy? If not it looks like her

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[–] flatulatte 18 years ago

Lex marinos AKA bruno "the Bl**dy wog" is co-hosting the show Strictly dancing on the ABC

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[–] jut666 17 years ago

And he is also part of the Brains Trust at times on Einstein Factor.Ross Higgins (Ted) was actually the guy who did the voices in the Rice Bubbles commercials YEARS ago....

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[–] IanGorton 17 years ago

He's also hosting Late Night Legends on ABC 2

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[–] jewelpandora 17 years ago

I met ross higgins when i was working at an advertising agency in the early 80's. He did voice overs for commercials. he was a really nice man with a lovely speaking voice. Not anything like ted bullpit. He was also very tall. I would luv to know what he's doing these days.

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[–] samamo_86 17 years ago

My mom thought it was Gretal Killein too! I told her it wasn't but she didn't believe me til I looked up IMDB.

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[–] IanGorton 17 years ago

Well I've hear that Ross Higgins is semi-retired now. But I sware it's his voice in the Mortein ads (Doing Louis The Fly)

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[–] [email protected] 17 years ago

I saw the legend Ross Higgins at a service station in Lane Cove about a year ago. He looked quite frail but I guess most of us will at some stage!

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[–] APDallas 17 years ago

My brother interviewed Lex Marinos (Bruno) a month or so ago in Burnie, Tasmania. Lex is acting in a play at the moment and touring Tassie.

Lex said he lives in Sydney (don't know which suburb) and Judy Farr (Thelma) and Maggie Dence (Merle) live nearby.

Greta went to London and lived there for a decade or so, doing theatre I think.

My brother was a very happy man, chatted w/ Lex for 30 minutes mainly about Kingswood Country, and got one of his box sets autographed.

Lex said the great man Ross Higgins (Teddles) isn't very well these days.

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[–] IanGorton 17 years ago

Speaking of Where are they now. The cast were on the TV show of the same name tonight. Anybody else see it?

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[–] SPfromOZ 16 years ago

Lex is also currently teaching a Theatre class at TAFE, I'm one of his students, thought I'd check out the show for a laugh!

He teaches the History module, very interesting guy, funny too!

His wife is the course director, and teaches the Acting Module

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[–] willjohn 13 years ago

Ross Higgins will be 80 next year. Colin McEwan, who played Ted's brother Bob, died in 2005.

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[–] willjohn 11 years ago

Ross was born in June 1931, so he is over 80 now.

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[–] edhesk 17 years ago

I don't know about Louie The Fly, but Ross Higgins did a lot of TV advertising, notably being the voice of Mr Sheen. He also sings and whistles, and it is his whistling that provides the melody of the theme music to Kingswood Country.

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[–] youngma-1 17 years ago

According to Ross Higgins' IMDb Page, he was the voice of louie the fly on the mortein ads.

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[–] agburns007 17 years ago

Unfortunately I missed the reunion special the other week, but I'd have loved to have seen it. How was it? Seeing all the original cast reunited would've been awesome.

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[–] IanGorton 14 years ago

it's on YouTube

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[–] jem-33 10 years ago

On YouTube there is a segment of Where Are They Now Australia? from 2007, which may answer some of your questions. Its address is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYfYeGGpJU

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[–] ginnyjinxedandhanshotritafirst 10 years ago

Lex Marinos was my comedy and theatre history teacher in an acting course I did at TAFE. His wife was running the course.

Like Killian Jones, I believe in good form. But like Capt Hook, I also believe in having fun.

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