Neil Melville

Neil Melville is an Australian actor. He was born in Sydney, but spent most of his childhood in Apollo Bay, Victoria.

Melville graduated from Adelaide's Flinders University with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama, and performed in a number of university productions, including, most notably, the world premiere of Jack Hibberd's The Les Darcy Show (1974).

After graduating from university, Melville spent a year writing and performing for children with the Little Patch Theatre. While with this group, he wrote the vaudeville-documentary, Australian Born, Australian Bred. He has worked extensively as a character actor, appearing in numerous Australian theatre, film and television productions.

Melville has served as actor and director-in-residence at the University of Melbourne and worked as Executive Producer on ex-wife Debra Byrne's album, Heaven Down Here.

Melville is now married to Bo, and lives in Apollo Bay.

Partial theatre productions

• The Fantastics
• Othello
• Coriolanus
• Macbeth
• The Naked Vicar Show
• Evita
• Oklahoma
• On Our Selection
• This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
• The Magic Guritar
• The Les Darcy Show
• Blue Window
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
• The Life of Galileo
• The Ramayana
• Les Misérables
• Odysey of a Prostitute

Partial television credits

• The Fast Lane
• The Flying Doctors
• The Henderson Kids
• Correlli
• Alice to Nowhere
• Dusty
• Phoenix
• Rafferty's Rules
• Prisoner
• A Country Practice
• Embassy
• Snowy
• The Man from Snowy River
• Ocean Girl
• Blue Heelers
• McLeod's Daughters
• The Secret Life of Us
• The Saddle Club
• Something in the Air
• Law of the Land
• Stingers
• Carson's Law

Filmography

• Brilliant Lies
• Bushfire Moon,
• Feathers
• In Pursuit of Honor
• Miracle Down Under
• Good Vibrations
• The Feds: Terror
• Halifax f.p: Playing God
• Halifax f.p: Isn't It Romantic

References

• Stratton, David. “Brilliant Lies.” Variety i2 (13–19 May 1996): 68
• Turner, G., Cunningham, S., The Australian TV Book, Allen and Unwin, NSW, 2000. ISBN 1-86508-014-4
• Byrne Return Awaited
• Additional Neil Melville credits
• Brilliant Lies
• Neil and Bo Melville at Apollo Bay
• Neil Melville at the Internet Movie Database

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