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Actor Henri Szeps, known for playing Robert Beare in Mother and Son, has died aged 81. Szeps revealed he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease during an appearance with his son on the ABC in 2021, and had spent the past two years living in a residential care facility. His son Amos confirmed his death on social media, sharing a poem that his father had written in 1973 after the birth of his first son. “As many of you know,...

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After making his screen debut in Foxtel.s Deadline Gallipoli, Nida graduate Joel Jackson will play the title role in the Seven Network.s Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.

Sara West has been cast as Liza Minnelli, to whom Allen was married, with Sigrid Thornton as Judy Garland, Rebecca Gibney as Peter.s mother Marion Woolnough and Henri Szeps as New York-based talent agent Dee Anthony.

The two-part drama scripted by Justin Monjo and Michael Miller and directed by Shawn Seet starts production next week. The producers are Rory Callaghan and Kerrie Mainwaring.

As If reported last week, Foxtel executives were so impressed with Jackson.s portrayal of war correspondent Charles Bean in Deadline Gallipoli they made a financial arrangement with the actor.s agent Mark Morrissey of Morrissey Management to ensure that if he took jobs in other shows, none would go to air before...

Parramatta's Riverside theatre was the first stop on a short Nsw tour for new Australian film Bathing Franky, starring veterans Henri Szeps and Maria Venuti as well as newcomer Shaun Goss.   The film follows ex-con Stevie (Goss) who picks up a meals-on-wheels job before meeting Rodney (Szeps), an eccentric performer who is forced to look after his incapacitated mother Franky (Venuti), the idea of which had its grounding in real life, writer Michael Winchester says of his debut screenplay.