Reg Lye
Biography
Reg Lye was an Australian actor who worked in both Australia and England. Born in Sydney in 1912, he ran his own revue company in the Riverina before joining Sydney's New Theatre, where he acted in plays and directed; his production of Rocket Range took a best play prize in a local competition. He was named best actor at the Orange Drama Festival for playing Henry Gow in Fumed Oak. Among Australia's busiest screen actors of the 1950s, he starred with Chips Rafferty in Eureka Stockade (1949) and King of the Coral Sea (1953). He moved to England in the early 1960s, took a small part in King Rat (1965) and appeared in television series including Z-Cars and Dr. Finlay's Casebook. Returning to Australia, he won an Australian Film Institute best supporting actor award for Sunday Too Far Away (1975), and later appeared in The Killing of Angel Street (1981) and Molly (1983).
75years old at death
- Born Sydney
- Died Windsor
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Reginald Thomas Lye
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 16 years1963 to 1979
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Behind the award
Lye won the Best Actor award at the Orange Drama Festival for playing Henry Gow in Noel Coward's short play Fumed Oak.
Behind the camera
Lye directed Rocket Range for the Forbes Society, and that production went on to win Best Play in a local competition.
A change of course
Lye had his own revue company in the Riverina before he became a member of the New Theatre in Sydney.
Behind the camera
Lye co-adapted the radio play Mr Markham, Antique Dealer for the stage and then played the title role of Mr Markham.
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