John Stanton

John Stanton is an Australian actor whose stage, television and film work has run for about sixty years. Born in Brisbane, he moved to Melbourne to further his career and played Peter Handcock in the first public performance of Breaker Morant in 1978, took the lead in Macbeth, appeared in 1979 in the first staging outside Britain of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, and played Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in 2013. On television he began with a stint in Bellbird and guest roles in Crawford Productions police dramas, became a regular as Detective Pat Kelly in Homicide, led The Box and Bellamy, and won a Logie Award for his Malcolm Fraser in The Dismissal. He had a recurring role in McLeod's Daughters and appeared in The Doctor Blake Mysteries. His films include Tai-Pan (1986) and Rent-a-Cop (1987), and he announced the Sydney 2000 Olympic Opening Ceremony.