Ron Graham

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 and featured in the film Gallipoli.

Personal life 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.

Filmography

Film

Television YearTitleRoleNotes1961 Whiplash Alfred TV series 1967 Contrabandits Detective Sergeant Thomson TV series 1967 Love and War TV miniseries, episode: War 3: Sergeant Musgrave's Dance1969 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 miniseries1982 MPSIB Max Birch TV series 1983 Waterloo Station DS Jack Edwards TV series 1983 Silent Reach Father Vakldera TV miniseries1985 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