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Simon Burke (born 8 October 1961) is an Australian actor. Burke began his acting career as a 13 year-old in the Australian film, The Devil’s Playground for which he was awarded Best Actor at the 1976 Australian Film Institute Awards.
He has since starred in numerous film, television and theatre productions in Australia and the UK. He starred as Captain Georg von Trapp in Rogers and Hammerstein’s production of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium alongside Connie Fisher.
Burke was Federal President of Actors Equity Australia (2004–2008).
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Simon Burke Biography / Wiki
| Name | Simon Burke |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of Birth | 1961-10-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 60 |
| Deathday |
Simon Burke Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Hidden History of Homosexual Australia | Narrator (voice) | 2005-02-27 | A documentary on the impact of gay and lesbian people in Australia…. |
| The One That Got Away | Stan | 1996-02-18 | The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition togeth… |
| The Clinic | Paul | 1983-04-21 | A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic…. |
| The Irishman | Michael Doolan | 1978-02-28 | Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, t… |
| Slate, Wyn & Me | Wyn Jackson | 1987-08-13 | Meandering drama of Brothers Burke and Sacks, who rob a bank, kill a cop and kidnap Thornton, a witness to their crime…. |
| The Devil’s Playground | Tom Allen | 1976-08-12 | A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid disci… |
| Preservation | Mr. Crewe | 2003-06-12 | Gothic horror and erotic farce face a shotgun wedding in “Preservation,” an oddball Aussie pic which is part of a spurt of government funded hour-long… |
| Small Claims: The Reunion | Jon | 2006-04-16 | Chrissy and Jo attend Chrissy’s university reunion. Surrounded by success, Chrissy begins to question her decision to stay at home with the kids. Whe… |
| The Postcard Bandit | Thomas | 2003-06-01 | The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the r… |
| Heroes’ Mountain | Euan Diver | 2002-03-10 | The story of Stuart Diver, the only person to survive the 1997 Thredbo tragedy that came about when a landslide engulfed a ski lodge situated in Austr… |
| Passion | Herman Sandby | 1999-07-01 | Passion concentrates on Grainger’s unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, thou… |
| South Pacific | Harbison | 2001-03-26 | During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. Th… |
| Pitch Black | Greg Owens | 2000-02-18 | When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn’t the only thing they have to fear… |
Simon Burke Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Executive Producer | The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently … | ||
Credit: TMDB
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