Terry Norris

Veteran Australian character actor Terry Norris, best known for Cop Shop, Bellbird and Jack Irish, has died.

“I had the biggest ethnic group in the state and the biggest unemployment and drug problem. “We’ve struck a chord with a lot of viewers. In 1982 he detoured from acting to a 10 year term as a member of the Victorian Labor government, which he says emerged from union work for Actors Equity. “We did a radio play from Melbourne every week, so that was a little bit of jam on the bread, and at that same time you were doing a stage show or theatre restaurant, and two long-running soap operas. Condolences to Julia and his family and many friends. All I’ve got to do is sit there and say the words! “A lot of performers you worked with in those days spent their entire lives in ‘rep’ and I didn’t want to finish up in a bloody bed sitting-room somewhere, down on my bean end, never going to get any further. I can never ever remember a moment in that show when anyone showed any temperament.” “It was a show that never took itself seriously. We got married between a matinee & evening performance of the show we were doing. I was never, ever out of work. England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, even the bloody Channel Islands I played,” he said in one of his