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Max Osbiston
Born
Maxwell Hamilton Osbiston

7 August 1914
Sydney, Australia
Died12 March 1981 (aged 66)
EducationYanco Agricultural High School, North Sydney Boys High School
OccupationActor
FamilyAlan Brigstocke Osbiston (cousin)

Maxwell Hamilton Osbiston (7 August 1914 – 12 March 1981) was an Australian actor, active in radio, stage, film and television.

Early life

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Osbiston was born in Sydney, the son of Frank[1] and Iolanthe Osbiston (née Margoliouth) of Cremorne, New South Wales.

He spent three years at the Agricultural School at Yanco, followed by North Sydney High School. He left school during the Great Depression, and with difficulty found employment delivering bread, and spent some time panning for gold in the Central West. On his return to Sydney he found employment as a traveler for a firm selling dentists' supplies, and remained in this business for four years.[2]

Career

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Osbiston had been attracted to the stage from schooldays, and in 1935 joined Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre, appearing in The Late Christopher Bean (Emlyn Williams) in October 1935, The Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov) in September 1936, Hassan (James Elroy Flecker) in March 1937, and Boy Meets Girl (Samuel and Bella Spewack) in November 1937.

During much of this time he was also acting in radio plays for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and in January 1938 he was signed to a one-year contract.[2] His most enduring, though minor, role was in Blue Hills as Dr Peter Frobisher. He was one of three (with Patricia Crocker and Queenie Ashton) who took part in both the first and last episodes (28 February 1949 and 30 September 1976).[3] He had roles in hundreds of radio dramas.

His professional stage career started with a small part in Of Mice and Men at the Minerva, which did not go unnoticed, and followed with French Without Tears at the same theatre, for which he received the highest accolades. Both plays were produced by Harvey Adams.[4]

Osbiston served with the RAAF during WWII, but details are hard to find, though he may have attained the rank of flight lieutenant.[5]

He was the romantic male lead in the film The Phantom Stockman.[6]

Selected appearances

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1941 The Power and the Glory Flight Leader [7][8]
1953 The Phantom Stockman Frank McLeod [9]
1954 His Majesty O'Keefe
1960 The Sundowners Farm Couple [10]
1961 Bungala Boys Reg Phelan
1978 Little Boy Lost Inspector James

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1959 Act of Violence TV play
1960 Thunder on Sycamore Street TV play
The Square Ring Watty TV play
The Life and Death of King Richard II Lord Willoughby TV movie
1961 Whiplash Gillespie / Garth Blake 2 episodes
The Outcasts Edward Eagar Miniseries, 1 episode
1962 Consider Your Verdict Kevin Tressell 1 episode
1963 Time Out Robert O’Hara Burke 1 episode
1965 The Magic Boomerang George Duffy 1 episode
The Stranger Telescope Technician Miniseries, 2 episodes
1966 Australian Playhouse Episode 7: "Getting Along with the Government"
1966–1973 Homicide Various roles 14 episodes
1968 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Dr Morton 1 episode
1968; 1969 Hunter Foster / Mason 2 episodes
1969–1973 Division 4 Jim Roberts / Nobby King / Det. Insp. Roche / Robinson / Maurie Brown / Bullock / Warren Nash / William Harris 8 episodes
1970 The Long Arm Charlie Hall 1 episode
1971 Dynasty Thomson 1 episode
The Godfathers 1 episode
1971–1975 Matlock Police Ralph Donaldson / Marshall / The District Inspector / Charles Wilson / Father Dawson / Harold Mason / Danny Hunt / Bull Ballard / Mr Robinson 9 episodes
1972 Spyforce Sir Roland Jensen 1 episode
1972–1973 Around the World in Eighty Days Mr Fix (voice) Animated series, 16 episodes [11]
1973 Boney McDonald Snr 1 episode
Ryan Lynch 1 episode
1974 27A Frederick Parsons TV movie
Our Man in the Company Bruce 1 episode
Silent Number 1 episode
Escape from Singapore TV docudrama movie
1974; 1975 Behind the Legend Anthology series, 2 episodes
1975 Last Rites TV movie
Ben Hall Buchanan Miniseries, 2 episodes
Shannon's Mob Samuels 1 episode
1972–1975 Number 96 Charles / Sergeant Murphy 3 episodes
1976 Secret Doors TV movie
Arena Parsons TV movie
The Bushranger TV movie
1977 Chopper Squad Rodney Coombs 1 episode
Moby-Dick TV movie
1978 Glenview High Inspector 1 episode
Little Boy Lost Inspector James TV movie
Case for the Defence Proudfoot 9 episodes [12]
1979 A Place in the World Miniseries, 1 episode
Cop Shop Fred Daniels / Supt Reg Lane 3 episodes
1980 Spring & Fall Doctor Anthology series, 1 episode

Theatre

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1934 Macbeth Criterion Theatre, Sydney [13]
1935 The Late Christopher Bean Independent Theatre, Sydney
1936 The Three Sisters
1937 Hassan
Boy Meets Girl
1940 Of Mice and Men Minerva Theatre, Sydney [4]
French Without Tears [4]
1941 Susan and God Clyde Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne with J. C. Williamson's
1958 Curly on the Rack Harry Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney [14]
1963–1964 The Private Ear / The Public Eye Phillip St Theatre, Sydney [15]
1965; 1977 The Business of Good Government. A Modern Nativity Play Scots Church, Sydney with Q Theatre [16]
1969 Canterbury Tales Chaucer Comedy Theatre, Melbourne with J. C. Williamson's [17][18]
1973–1974 What If You Died Tomorrow? Sydney Opera House, Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney, Canberra Theatre, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Comedy Theatre, London
1974 That Championship Season UNSW Parade Theatre, Sydney
1977 The Magistrate Sydney Opera House [19]

Radio

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1937 As Ye Sow Gilbert ABC Radio series [20]
Fly by Night Edward Blaine ABC Radio series [13]
1937–1953 Dad and Dave from Snake Gully Dave 4BK / 4AK series
Pre-1938 Heroisms All Around Us [20]
1938 The Three Diggers Jim 2BL series [21]
1940 French Without Tears 2GB series [22]
1940s–1950s Drama of Medicine Grace Gibson Productions series on 2UW [23]
1942 The Blackburns Take Over Jeffrey Blackburn
1945–1954 The Air Adventures of Biggles Algy AWA series on 2GB [23]
1946 Invisible Circus Bradley McGhee ABC Radio series [24]
1947 Crime and Punishment Macquarie Network series
1949–1976 Blue Hills Dr Peter Frobisher ABC Radio series [3]
1950s Dragnet Grace Gibson Productions series on 2GB [23]
My Heart's Desire AWA series on 4IP [23]
Timber Ridge AWA series on 3XY / 3TR [23]
1950s–1960s Diamonds of Death Mark Sherwood [23]
Life in the Balance ARP series [23]
1952 The Explorers 2BL / ABC Radio series
1954 The Dam Busters Mick Martin 2UE series [25]
c1954– Stairway to Fame ARC series [23]
1956 The White Rabbit Hutchison Australasian Radio Productions / Grace Gibson Productions series on 2UE [26]
The Clock Fred / The Sergeant Grace Gibson Productions series on 3XY, episode 33: "Behind the Mask", episode 35: "Flaming Frances" [27]
1957 Carter Brown Mysteries Grace Gibson Productions series, episode: "Curves for a Coroner" [28]
1957–1960 Big Sister Perry Macquarie / Artransa series, season 2 [23]
1958 Phantom Time Narrator (introduction) Fidelity series [23] [29]
1960s No Rainbow in the Sky Jack Morrison AWA series [23]
1965 The Square Ring Proudfoot
1970s Without Shame Grimes Grace Gibson Productions series on 3LK [23]
c.1972 I Christopher Macaulay Grace Gibson Productions series [23]
Adopted Son Bruce Conway Grace Gibson Productions series [23]
Beyond the Rainbow Jack Morrison AWA series [23]
The Broken Circle Howard Cartwright Fidelity series [23]
Radio Cab Fidelity series [23]
Walk a Crooked Mile Pomeroy Donovan Joyce series [23][30]

Personal life

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Osbiston married Beulah 'Babs' Mayhew of Ermington, New South Wales sometime around early 1939. They had appeared together as a couple in the radio series As Ye Sow,[20] and continued to work on the same shows wherever possible, Mrs Osbiston continuing to appear as 'Babs Mayhew'.

Max Osbiston was a cousin of film editor Alan Brigstocke Osbiston (7 May 1914 – 1971) — see chart below.

Family

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Three children of Samuel Osbiston of Ryburgh, Norfolk, England found their way to Australia. Several descendants were prominent in banking, mining and the arts in Sydney:

  • Frank Frederic Osbiston (c. 1843 – 23 April 1902) mine manager; worked in America,[31] died at Coolgardie, Western Australia.[32]
  • Robert Osbiston of Campbelltown (c. 1846 – 16 November 1898) economist,[33] secretary of the Bankers Institute, married Sarah Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Finch on 23 December 1871 in Chelsea, London.
  • (Robert) Newton Osbiston (c. 1872 – 24 February 1902) married Susan Jane "Susie" Allison on 7 February 1900. She married again, to Arthur Smith of Cheviot Hills Station, Drake, New South Wales
  • Frances Allison Osbiston ( – ) married Alexander Wyatt Martin on 19 February 1927
  • Ann Osbiston (1874–1964)
  • Francis "Frank" Osbiston (16 September 1876 – 16 May 1953). He married Iolanthe Yolande Lindsay Margoliouth of New Zealand on 23 December 1911, lived at Cremorne.
  • Francis Robert "Bob" Osbiston (25 January 1913 – ) served as war correspondent for the Sydney Truth and Daily Mirror. He married Winifred Joan Collins, daughter of painter and broadcaster Albert Collins, on 30 April 1938 and had two children. They divorced in 1946.[34] She married again, to Neville Ballard Lewis on 16 February 1948.
  • Maxwell Hamilton Osbiston (7 August 1914 – 12 March 1981) married Beulah "Babs" Mayhew (died 2004) early in 1939.
  • daughter (18 July 1944 – )
  • Karen Osbiston (c. 1946 – )
  • Judith Lindsay Osbiston (5 September 1917 – ) married John Rorke, lived in Arcadia, New South Wales.
  • David John Osbiston (5 October 1918 – 18 September 1996)
  • Michael Osbiston ( – ) youngest son of Frank,[1] was another actor.[35] (Check SMH 26 May 1962 p.68)
  • Charles Alan Osbiston (c. 1881–c. 1957) married Emily Florence Brigstocke on 6 July 1912
  • William Osbiston (c. July 1883 – 16 November 1939) served with 1st AIF

References

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