Ronald Graham (born Lionel Alfred Hosmer, 17 December 1926 – 2 April 2020) was a British-Australian character actor who appeared in many theatre and television roles from 1956 until retiring in 2003. He is best known for his roles in telemovies and guest roles in serials including many shows made by Crawford Productions and roles in popular serials Certain Women, A Country Practice and Home and Away. He was a regular in the short lived police-oriented soap opera Waterloo Station (1983) and featured in the film Gallipoli.

Ron Graham
Born
Lionel Alfred Hosmer

(1926-12-17)17 December 1926
Aldershot, England
Died2 April 2020(2020-04-02) (aged 93)
NationalityEnglish
Australian
OccupationCharacter actor
Years activeTheatre 1956–2000,[1] Television and film 1961–2003
SpouseAleda Klara Johnsen
ChildrenMarcus Graham

Personal life

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Ron Graham was born Lionel Alfred Hosmer, the second son of 3 boys to William Alfred Hosmer (1896-1953) and Doris Agatha (nee Green) (1897-1978) in Aldershot, UK. In 1928, the family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lionel joined the British Army and in July 1948, his parents and two brothers emigrated to Australia from the United Kingdom. Lionel demobbed from the Army in 1949 and then migrated to Australia, settling in Perth. He changed his name by deed poll to Ron Graham. He first married in the early 1960s to Judith Schonell, a dancer with the West Australian State Ballet. Their son Marcus Graham is a well-known Australian stage, television and film actor and director. Ron later partnered with Aleda Klara Johnsen. He died in Windsor, New South Wales on 2 April 2020 at the age of 93.[2]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1961 The Merchant of Venice Basanio TV movie
1969 The Intruders Peter Yordan Film
1970 The Curious Female Doorman
1981 Gallipoli Wallace Hamilton Feature film
1982 Fluteman Frank Timms Feature film
1984 Silver City Director Feature film
1986 Whose Baby Jack Galbsally TV movie
1996 Acri Norris
1998 13 Gantry Row Loan's Manager TV movie
1999 Time and Tide Harry TV movie
2000 Portrait of a Suspect American Police Detective TV movie
2003 BlackJack Murder Archive Brian Kirsten TV movie

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1961 Whiplash Alfred TV series
1967 Contrabandits Detective Sergeant Thomson TV series
1967 Love and War TV miniseries, episode: War 3: Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
1969 Riptide Chris Bolan TV series
1971 Mrs. Finnegan Joe Fagan TV series
1969–71 Dynasty John Mason TV series
1972 Boney Mike Taylor TV series
1972 The Spoiler Dave Sharpe TV series
1971–72 Spyforce Ron (pilot) (uncredited) TV series
1973 A Taste for Blue Ribbons TV series
1973 Ryan Sergeant Nelson TV series
1971–73 Matlock Police 4 roles:
-Brian Woods
-Ron Grey
-Sam Winter
-Leo "Bullfrog" Bennett
TV series
1968–73 Homicide 5 roles:
-Allan Farrow
-Sgt. Ron Lane
-Don Carlisle
-David Warner
-Bill Young
TV series
1969–74 Division 4 4 roles:
-Chris Granger
-Len Abbott
-John Moore
-Laurie Cornell
TV series
1973–76 Certain Women Alan Stone TV series
1978 Young Ramsay Bruce Watt TV series
1977–78 Glenview High Frank Faulkner TV series
1978 Cass TV series
1978 Cop Shop 2 roles
-Ralph Curran
-Peter Curran
TV series
1979 Ride on Stranger Darcey Jones TV series
1981 Kingswood Country Mr. GMH TV series
1981 Bellamy Trotter TV series
1981 Sporting Chance TV series
1982 1915 Army Sergeant TV miniseries
1982 M.P.S.I.B Max Birch TV series
1983 Waterloo Station DS Jack Edwards TV series
1983 Silent Reach Father Vakldera TV miniseries
1985 Winners Abattoir Manager TV series
1986 Alice to Nowhere Denzil Leary TV miniseries
1988 Rafferty's Rules Frank White TV series
1989 Mission: Impossible Challis TV series
1981–92 A Country Practice 5 roles:
-Andy McKay
-Harry Martin
-Bill Jones
-Tom Spencer
-Bill Morrison
TV series
1994 Time Trax Casey TV series
1994 Heartbreak High Detective Monaghan TV series
1995 Blue Murder Senior Officer TV miniseries
1991–96 G.P. 2 roles:
-Angus Sutton (1991)
-Jim Stewart (1996)
TV series
1997 Home and Away Murray Watson TV series
1997 Big Sky Tom TV series
2001 Outriders Mr. Murray TV series
2003 Snobs Mr. Ford TV series

References

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  1. ^ "RonGraham". AusStage.
  2. ^ "GRAHAM, Ronald". The Weekly Times. The Daily Telegraph. 4 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
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