John Hargreaves

John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.

Background John William Hargreaves was born on 28 November 1945 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, and educated at Marist College Kogarah. He taught in Mendooran, but moved to Sydney in the 1960s. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1970.

Hargreaves was mainly a film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions. Hargreaves had roles in The Removalists (1975), Don's Party (1976), The Odd Angry Shot (1979), and Malcolm (1986). He played the love interest of Nicole Kidman's character in Emerald City (1988).

In 1994 he became the first actor to receive the Byron Kennedy Award.

Hargreaves contracted HIV about 1994 and died of AIDS-related complications in a hospice in Sydney on 8 January 1996. Pallbearers at Hargreaves's funeral included actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1966 They're a Weird Mob Youth reading paper at train station (uncredited) Feature film 1974 Essington TV movie 1975 Last Rites Bennett TV movie 1975 Sunday Too Far Away Uncredited Feature film 1975 The Removalists Constable Neville Ross Feature film 1976 Mad Dog Morgan Baylis Feature film1976 Don's Party Don Henderson Feature film 1976 Death Cheaters Steve Hall Feature film 1978 A Good Thing Going Phil Harris TV movieLogie Award for Best Actor in a miniseries/telemovie 1978 Long Weekend Peter Feature filmNominated – Sitges Film Festival award for Best Actor 1978 Little Boy Lost Jacko Walls Feature film 1979 The Odd Angry Shot Bung Feature film 1979 Banana Bender Tom Hardy TV movie 1981 The Killing of Angel Street Elliott Feature film 1981 Hoodwink Martin Stang Feature filmNominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1982 Beyond Reasonable Doubt Arthur Allan Thomas Feature film 1983 Careful, He Might Hear You Logan Feature filmAustralian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1984 The Great Gold Swindle Ray Mickelberg TV movie 1984 My First Wife John Feature filmAustralian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1986 Double Sculls Sam Larkin Feature film 1986 Comrades Convict Animated film 1986 Sky Pirates Lt. Harris Feature film 1986 Malcolm Frank Baker Feature filmAustralian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1987 The Place at the Coast Neil McAdam Feature film 1987 Cry Freedom Bruce Haigh Feature film (based on Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh) 1988 Boundaries of the Heart Andy Ford Feature film 1988 Emerald City Colin Rogers Feature filmNominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1990 Sweet Revenge Jim Harris Feature film 1993 Blackfellas Detective Maxwell Feature film 1994 No Worries Clive Ryan Film 1994 Country Life Jack Dickens FilmByron Kennedy AwardNominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1995 Hotel Sorrento Dick Bennett Feature film 1996 Lust and Revenge Gallery Sleaze Feature film

Television Year Title Role Notes 1969 Pastures of the Blue Crane TV series 1972 Over There Robert Kirby TV series 1972 Behind the Legend Tom Roberts TV series 1972–74 Matlock Police Doug Thompson / Peter Smith / Roy Jones TV series, 3 episodes: "Everybody Else Has Everything", "The Last Laugh", "A Weekends Entertainment" 1973 Division 4 Jackson/John TV series, 2 episodes: "Wasteground", "A Wild Wild Rose" 1973 Spyforce Captain/Navigator TV series, 2 episodes: "The Trail", "The Journey" 1974 And the Big Men Fly Achilles Jones TV series 1974–76 Homicide Billy Day / David Taylor / Kevin Watson / Steve Brennan TV series, 4 episodes: "Cowboy Billy Day", "You Hear about the Slasher", "The Egotist", "On The Run" 1975 Silent Number Terry Lucas TV series, 1 episode: "His Own Private War" 1976 Power Without Glory Bill Evans TV miniseries 1976 Bluey Eric Yates TV series, 1 episode: "One Man Band" 1977–80 Young Ramsay Peter Ramsay TV series 1982 Last Breakfast in Paradise 1983 Scales of Justice Constable Borland TV miniseries 1983 The Dismissal Dr. Jim Cairns TV miniseries 1983 Carson's Law TV series 1988 The Heroes Ted Carse TV miniseries 1988 Opération Mozart Harrington TV short 1988 The Alien Years William TV miniseries 1991 Marie Curie, une femme honourable Rutherford TV miniseries 1992 The Leaving of Liverpool Harry TV miniseries 1992 Rome Roméo David Waldberg 1993 G.P. Dr. Oliver Loyd TV series, 1 episode: "Infected" 1995 Blue Murder Chester Porter QC TV miniseries

Below the line credits Without a Clue (1988) – runner

Other credits Second Best (1994) completion guarantee services (The Completion Bond Company Inc) Whore (1991)

Theatre Year Title Role Location 1967 The Choephori (The Libation Bearers) Chorus Member UNSW 1968 Sam, The Highest Jumper of Them All, or the London Comedy New Theatre, Sydney 1968 Postmark Zero New Theatre, Sydney 1968 America Hurrah New Theatre, Sydney 1969 The Night of the Iguana Hank / Herr Fahrenkopf NIDA Theatre 1969 In the Gloaming, Oh My Darling (student graduation play) Mr. Birdsong Jane Street Theatre 1969 Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter Jane Street Theatre 1970 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Old Tote Theatre 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream Old Tote Theatre 1970 Blood Wedding Old Tote Theatre 1970 Biggles Biggles Nimrod Street Theatre 1971 As You Like It Parade Theatre 1971 The Man of Mode Parade Theatre 1971 A Month in the Country Parade Theatre, Canberra Theatre 1971 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Parade Theatre, Canberra Theatre 1971 The National Health or Nurse Norton's Affair Parade Theatre 1971 Lasseter Parade Theatre with Old Tote Theatre 1971 The Au Pair Man Independent Theatre 1972 Jugglers Three Union Hall, Adelaide 1973 Crete and Sergeant Pepper Union Hall, Adelaide 1973 Measure for Measure Union Hall, Adelaide 1975 The Ride Across Lake Constance Nimrod Theatre 1975 The Importance of Being Earnest Sydney Opera House 1977 The Training Run Constable Patrick Reilly Bondi Pavilion 1980 The Sunny South Matt Morley Sydney Opera House 1980 Bent Max Playhouse Adelaide 1981 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Brick Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company 1983 Present Laughter Theatre Royal, Sydney 1990 Love Letters Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Sydney Opera House