Frank Gallacher

Frank Gallacher (7 April 1943 – 23 February 2009) was a Scottish-Australian actor.

Early life Gallacher was born in Glasgow in 1943. In 1962, aged 19, he was working in London when his parents and younger sister decided to emigrate to Australia. Gallacher declined to join them, preferring to remain in London, but emigrated to Brisbane a year later where he worked as a schoolteacher. He spent three years in Papua New Guinea teaching English. On his return to Brisbane, he joined an amateur theatre company, which eventually gained him admission to the Queensland Theatre Company.

Career In 1977, Gallacher was in Melbourne, performing in David Williamson's play The Club, and he remained with the Melbourne Theatre Company from then on. In 2005, he played Lear in the MTC production of King Lear.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1979 The John Sullivan Story Stipra TV film 1981 The Homicide Squad Det Sgt Jerry Harris TV film 1982 Heatwave Dick Molnar Feature film 1983 Goodbye Paradise Keith Feature film 1988 Raw Silk Johnson TV film 1989 The Humpty Dumpty Man Gerry Shadlow TV film 1991 Proof Vet Feature film 1991 Deadly Mick Thornton Feature film 1993 Hammers Over the Anvil Mr. Thomas the Preacher Feature film 1992 A Royal Commission into the Australian Economy Malcolm Turnbull TV film 1993 Kill or Be Killed Gary Feature film 1994 Dallas Doll Stephen Sommers Feature film 1996 Mr. Reliable Don Ferguson Feature film 1996 Cody: Fall from Grace Duncan White TV film 1997 Amy Dr Urquhart Feature film 1997 One Way Ticket Macca TV film 1998 Dark City Chief Inspector Stromboli Feature film 2000 Muggers Det. Sgt. Kernahan Feature film 2001 Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story Schenk TV movie 2001 Like It Is Doc Keenan Short film 2002 Black and White Justice Reed Feature film 2002 Till Human Voices Wake Us Maurie Lewis Feature film 2003 Ain't Got No Jazz David Mann Short film 2003 Peter Pan Alsatian Fogarty (Pirate Crew) Feature film 2004 One Perfect Day Malcolm Feature film 2006 Stepfather of the Bride Ian Feature film 2007 Curtin Jack Beasley TV film 2007 December Boys Father Scully Feature film

Television Year Title Role Notes 1967 Bellbird TV series 1973 Boney Barman TV series, 1 episode 1973 Number 96 Hank TV series, 1 episode 1973 Seven Little Australians Postman TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1974 Division 4 Glen Evans / Joe Bianchi TV series, 2 episodes 1974 Matlock Police Martin Ross-Smith TV series, 1 episode 1974 Silent Number Barney TV series, 1 episode 1975 Ben Hall 'Goobang' Mick Connolly TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1975 Homicide Sydney Green TV series, 1 episode 1975-76 Shannon's Mob Michael Jamieson TV series, 13 episodes 1976 Rush James McNeilly TV series, 1 episode 1976 Bluey Jules TV series, 1 episode 1976 The Outsiders Sgt Peter Blakely TV series, 1 episode 1976 The Lost Islands Quig, Quad's henchman TV series, 24 episodes 1978 Against the Wind Will Price TV miniseries, 11 episodes 1979 Prisoner Paul Bentley TV series, 2 episodes 1979 Twenty Good Years Geoff Wilson TV series, 1 episode 1980 Locusts and Wild Honey Jan TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1980 Young Ramsay Dave Foster TV series, 1 episode 1980 Secret Valley Dan McCormack TV series, 1 episode 1980 The Coast Town Kids Len Wolding TV pilot 1980 Water Under the Bridge Luigi Mazzini TV miniseries, 1 episode 1980 The Last Outlaw Detective Ward TV miniseries, 4 episodes 1978-81 Cop Shop Robert Harris / Stephen Morris / Vitoria Rossi / Robert Clements / Vince Reed / John Maynard TV series, 9 episodes 1981 Bellamy Flanagan TV miniseries, 1 episode 1982 Winner Take All Mangione TV miniseries, 10 episodes 1983 Carson's Law Dr Hellman TV series, 2 episodes 1983 All the Rivers Run Mac TV miniseries, 6 episodes 1983 Under Capricorn Quaife TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1984 Waterfront Paddy Ryan TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1984 A Country Practice Reggie Russell TV series, 2 episodes 1984 Banjo's Australia Reader TV special 1986 A Fortunate Life Bill Oliver TV ministry, 1 episode 1986 The Flying Doctors Harry Morgan TV series, 1 episode 1986 The Great Bookie Robbery Inspector Castleway TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1987 The Shiralee Beauty TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1988 Rafferty's Rules Louis D'Oering TV series, 1 episode 1991 Boys from the Bush Gavin TV series, 1 episode 1991 Brides of Christ Irish Dean TV miniseries, 1 episode 1992 Cluedo Detective Sergeant Bogong TV series, 21 episodes 1993 Seven Deadly Sins Elliot TV series, 1 episode 1995 The Damnation of Harvey McHugh Sergeant Dale TV miniseries, 1 episode 1995 Janus Haines TV series, 1 episode 1995 Snowy River: The McGregor Saga Grady Hocking TV series, 1 episode 1996 The Bite Larry Schofield TV series, 2 episodes 1998 The Violent Earth Father Moissan TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1998 Driven Crazy Morris TV series, 1 episode 1998 Small Tales and True Professor Francis Goodrich TV series, 1 episode 1994-2001 Blue Heelers Don 'Pop' Watson / Geoff Garrick TV series, 3 episodes 2000-04 Stingers William Franks / Jack Conrad TV series, 2 episodes 2001 Horace and Tina Horace TV series, 26 episodes 2002 Marshall Law Frank Dellabosca TV miniseries, 8 episodes 2004 Fergus McPhail MacCorkindale TV series, 1 episode 2005 MDA Dr. Rupert Carr TV series, 4 episodes 2006 Two Twisted Pierce Bristow TV series 2007 All Saints Bruce Campion TV series, 1 episode 2009 Tangle Pat Mahady TV series, season 1, 7 episodes

Stage

As actor Year Title Role Notes 1970 Wait Until Dark SGIO Theatre 1971 The Wind in the Sassafras Trees SGIO Theatre 1971 The Legend of King O'Malley New South Wales, Playhouse Canberra, Queensland, SGIO Theatre 1972 Lock Up Your Daughters SGIO Theatre 1972 Assault with a Deadly Weapon SGIO Theatre 1972 The Schoolmistress SGIO Theatre 1972 Twelfth Night Sir Toby Belch SGIO Theatre 1972 The Ruling Class SGIO Theatre 1972 Rooted Attic Theatre, Toowoomba 1973 Goldilocks and the Four Bears R. Certificate Ensemble Theatre 1973–74 A Hard God Nimrod Street Theatre, Playhouse Canberra 1974 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Roo SGIO Theatre 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Randle McMurphy SGIO Theatre 1975–76 An Evening with Robert Burns SGIO Theatre, Playhouse Adelaide 1976 The Last of the Knucklemen Mad Dog Playhouse Adelaide, Maitland Town Hall, Port Pirie Town Hall, Whyalla Institute, Port Lincoln Civic Hall, Cowell Institute, Port Augusta College, Woomera Village Theatre, Peterborough Town Hall, Gladstone Hall, Clare Town Hall 1976 Cowboys #2 Playhouse Adelaide 1976 Old King Cole Faz Playhouse Adelaide 1977 Revenge Adam Hepple Sheridan Theatre, Adelaide 1977 The Club Ted Russell Street Theatre with Melbourne Theatre Company 1977 Cop Out Linton Doyle Russell Street Theatre 1979 Thérèse Raquin Laurent ABC Radio Melbourne 1979 Paradise Disdained Commisar ABC Radio Melbourne 1978 Mixed Doubles Stables Theatre 1979 Resting Place Stables Theatre 1979 Night Stables Theatre 1979 The Lawyer Stables Theatre 1979 The Vicar Stables Theatre 1979 Dirty Linen McTeazle, M.P. Playbox Theatre, Melbourne 1979 America Hurrah Stables Theatre 1980 The Seagull Trigorin Monash University 1980 Piaf Leplee Comedy Theatre, Melbourne 1983 Antony and Cleopatra Mark Antony Playbox Theatre, Melbourne 1984 A Fortunate Life Playhouse, Melbourne 1984 Pax Americana Playhouse, Melbourne 1984 The Curse of the Werewolf Playhouse, Melbourne 1985 Visions Russell Street Theatre 1985 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus / Oberon Sidney Myer Music Bowl 1985 Glengarry Glen Ross Russell Street Theatre 1985 Benefactors Russell Street Theatre 1987 Shimada Russell Street Theatre 1987 Twelfth Night Orsino Playhouse, Melbourne 1987–88 The Rivers of China Gurdjieff Wharf Theatre, Playhouse, Melbourne 1987 The Three Musketeers Athos Playhouse, Melbourne 1988 Tristram Shandy – Gent Dr Slop / Samson / German Scholar Russell Street Theatre with Melbourne Theatre Company 1988 Serious Money Russell Street Theatre, Wharf Theatre 1988 The Proposal Russell Street Theatre 1988 A Respectable Wedding Russell Street Theatre 1989 Mother Courage Bridge Theatre, Coniston 1989 Macbeth Playhouse, Melbourne 1989 Dreams in an Empty City Playhouse, Melbourne 1989 Burn This Pale Russell Street Theatre 1990 The Tempest Playhouse, Melbourne 1990 A Christmas Carol Russell Street Theatre 1991 The Crucible Playhouse, Melbourne 1991 Uncle Vanya Russell Street Theatre 1991 The Cherry Orchard University of Wollongong 1992 Othello Playhouse, Melbourne 1992 A View from the Bridge Eddie Carbone Playhouse, Melbourne with Melbourne Theatre Company 1992–93 Death and the Maiden Roberto Wharf Theatre, Russell Street Theatre, Playhouse Theatre Perth, Space Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House 1994 Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Edward Russell Street Theatre, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Monash University with Melbourne Theatre Company 1994 The Lady from the Sea Russell Street Theatre 1994 A Flea in Her Ear Playhouse, Melbourne 1995 Arcadia Playhouse, Melbourne 1996 Skylight Cremorne Theatre, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Monash University, Space Theatre, Adelaide, The Capital - Bendigo's Performing Arts Centre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre 1996 Miss Bosnia General Jaz Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Monash University, Canberra Theatre, The Capital - Bendigo's Performing Arts Centre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Gold Coast Arts Centre with Melbourne Theatre Company 1997 Dealer's Choice Fairfax Studio, Melbourne 1997 Wait Until Dark Roat Playhouse, Melbourne with Melbourne Theatre Company 1998 A Doll's House Fairfax Studio, Melbourne 1998 The Piccadilly Bushman Mick O'Shea Malthouse Theatre 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley Herbert Greenleaf Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with Melbourne Theatre Company 1999 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Arturo Playhouse, Melbourne 2000 Death of a Salesman Willy Loman Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with Melbourne Theatre Company 2001 Holy Day Wakefield Dunstan Playhouse, Malthouse Theatre 2002 The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union Belvoir Street Theatre 2002 Proof Robert Playhouse, Melbourne with Melbourne Theatre Company 2003–04 Frozen Ralph Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Wharf 1 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company 2003 The Lieutenant of Inishmore Donny Belvoir Street Theatre 2004 A Number Space Theatre, Adelaide, Brisbane Powerhouse 2005 King Lear Lear Malthouse Theatre with Melbourne Theatre Company 2008 The Soldier's Tale Sacred Heart Chapel, Melbourne

As director Year Title Role Notes 1986 Glengarry Glen Ross Director Sydney Opera House 1989 The Chocolate Frog and The Old Familiar Juice Director Church Theatre, Hawthorn 1991 A Royal Commission into the Australian Economy Director Universal Theatre, Space Theatre, Adelaide 1991 Sunday Lunch Director Russell Street Theatre 1998 I Do! I Do! Director Capers Cabaret, Hawthorn

Personal life Gallacher was married to wife Belinda, and had two children, Conor and Brigid, and a sister Eileen.

Death Gallacher died suddenly and unexpectedly in a Melbourne hospital on 23 February 2009, at the age of 65.