RIP Alan Hopgood

 

Alan Hopgood dead, 87, passes away after long battle with cancer

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March 20, 2022

 

Alan Hopgood has been in the industry for over forty years as an actor and playwright. In January 2005, Hopgood was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his work in the performing arts as an actor, playwright and producer, and for his efforts to raise awareness of men’s health issues in the community. He has worked on many film and television projects in his native Australia.

Alan Hopgood AM (born 29 September 1934) is an Australian actor and writer. Hopegood also wrote a number of screenplays for film and television, including the comedy Alvin Purple (1973), the highest-grossing Australian film of the early 1970s.

Hopegood was an actor with the Melbourne Theatre Company for ten years and was an early soap star of Belbird, in which he played the town doctor for six years. He also starred in the later soap opera “The Prisoner” (for which he also wrote many episodes) as Wally Wallace and Neighbors as Jack Lassiter (he reprised the role in August 2013).

His films as an actor include My Brilliant Career (1979), The Blue Lagoon (1980), The Road Game (1981), Evil Angel (1988) and The Man in the Snow (1988).

 

HOPGOOD, Alan (Alan John Hopgood)

Born: 9/29/1934, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Died: 3/19/2022, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

Alan Hopgood’s westerns – writer, narrator, actor:

Ned Kelly (TV) – 1959

Lola Montez – 1962 (Smith)

Dick Down Under -1975 [writer]

The Trial of Ned Kelly (TV) – 1977 [narrator]

Return to Snowy River – 1988 (Simmons)

Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (TV) – 1995 (Gil Tyson)