Syd Conabere

Sydney Leicester Conabere (8 July 191815 July 2008) was an Australian actor and puppeter.

He is known for his stints in soap operas Sons and Daughters as Doug Palmer and Neighbours as patriarch Dan Ramsay

Biography Conabere was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray on 8 July 1918 and worked prolifically in the industry starting out as a stage actor with Gregan McMahon in 1938, in particularly he worked with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Melbourne Little Theatre, sharing the stage (and applause) with Irene Mitchell in, for example, Lilian Hellman's The Little Foxes.

Conabere had an extensive career as a character actor from the 1950s to the 2000s, the comedy Please Sir!, and in the crime film Man of Violence.

In the 1980s Conabere reached a wider international audience, making occasional appearances in two long running Australian soap operas, in Neighbours as Dan Ramsay and as Doug Palmer in Sons and Daughters.

Sydney Conabere died in Sydney, Australia on 15 July 2008, aged 90. Murder in the Cathedral (1962, TV movie) Uneasy Paradise (1962, TV movie) – Billy Corruption in the Palace of Justice (1964, TV movie) Everyman (1964, TV movie) – Confession The Physicists (1964, TV movie) Luther (1964, TV movie) Daphne Laureola (1965, TV movie) Plain Jane (1966, TV movie) The Shifting Heart (1968) Man of Violence (1970) – Alec Powell Cool It Carol! (1970) – Lazlo Country Town (1971) – Ted Atkins Petersen (1974) – Annie's Father The Trespassers (1976) – Harry Blue Fire Lady (1977) – Mr. Bartlett The Big Hurt (1986) – O'Neal Heaven Tonight (1990) – Priest Greenkeeping (1992) – Milton

Television Emergency (1959, TV series) – George Rogers Homicide (TV series, 1965–76) Hunter (TV series, 1967, 1968) Australian Playhouse "A Stay at Home" (not aired) Sherlock Holmes (TV series, 1968) Please Sir! (TV series, 1969) Z Cars (TV series, 1970) Division 4 (TV series, 1971–74) Matlock Police (TV series, 1971–76) A Taste for Blue Ribbons (1973, TV series) – John Emmet Sons and Daughters (1982–84, TV series) – Doug Palmer A Country Practice (1983–93, TV series) – Reg Brundle / Alec Hales / Eddie Marshall Neighbours (1986–88, TV series) – Dan Ramsay Poor Man's Orange (TV miniseries, 1987) The Harp in the South (TV miniseries, 1987) E Street (1992, TV series) – Grandpa Windsor Home and Away (1994, TV series) – Gerry Heartbreak High (1996, TV series) – Jack Shaw All Saints (1998–02, TV Series) – William Belden / Maurie Taylor (final appearance)