As a kid I didn't think of becoming an actor, there were much more
important things to consider: a life as a missionary for instance; an
explorer, a doctor, an Egyptologist, a diplomat, an army officer, a
magician. Some years later, half way through an Arts/Law course at
Monash University, I realized I could fulfill all these ambitions and
not waste years in tiresome solitude studying in darkened libraries or
being shackled to some thankless apprenticeship... I could become an
actor. The irony that I would spend the next three years of my life
living/ eating/ sleeping basically nothing but the rudiments of my
chosen career was entirely lost on me.
Since completing the 3 yr. course at NIDA I've lived through the First
& Second World Wars, commanded an Australian Navy Patrol Boat, been a
doctor in the Outback, a policeman, a lawyer, a hypnotherapist, an
explorer, an American, a Frenchman, an Englishman, an Elizabethan, a
scientist, a poet, a pirate and plenty of others as well.
