Tony Rickards

Tony Rickards is an Australian actor and comedian who has worked across television, film, radio and theater. While studying at the University of Melbourne he became friends with Steve Vizard, and the pair began writing and performing in university revues together, a collaboration that lasted for decades. In the 1980s he took lead roles in a run of films: Robbery (1985), Squizzy Taylor (1982), The Great Gold Swindle (1984) and Mud, Bloody Mud (1985). He also spent eight years as Con Marasco on the radio series Punter to Punter. His television work takes in the dramas Wentworth, Tangle, Winners & Losers and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, the comedy series Kath & Kim, the 2012 movie The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and the miniseries Childhood's End. Film credits include Summer Coda (2010), Castaway (1986) and Holding the Man (2015). On stage he has appeared in Cock for Melbourne Theatre Company and in Every Night Every Night.