Acting and Voiceover

 

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Since the early 1990s the direction of Hugh's professional career veered away from theatre and televion roles into the fascinating and challenging world of "the voiceover guy".

Over the last twenty years, Hugh has compiled quite a body of work as a television and documentary series narrator, as well as providing many voices for radio and television commercials.

 

Projects have included:

 

 

  • From 2000 to the present, the Seven Network have continued to use Hugh's clear and insightful reading of text as their narrator for  many of their factual and documentary programmes.
  • Some of these include -
    "Popstars" , "The Body Specialists", "Most Shocking", "Most Daring", "World Around Us", "Dog Squad", "Highway Patrol" 

During 2007 - 2009  Hugh was offered the role of Narrator for "Milly & Molly", a 13 part Animated Children's Television series based on the popular childrens' books. The second series was completed in 2009.

2009 saw the completion of post production on the second series of "The Video Diaries" - "Stonehenge or Bust" (Hear it on my podcast) and publication of a poetry book and CD "The Cafe Village by the Sea"

In 2005 / 2006 Hugh was chosen to read four books for ABC Audio, released in ABC shops.

"Great Australian Racing Stories",
"Great Australian Fly-Fshing Stories",
"Cobbers - Stories of Galllipoli 1915"
"What do you do with them on Sundays?"

In early 2004, Hugh was able to draw on his  experience as a character actor, when entertaining audiences as one of the original cast of "Under Mulga Wood" - an Australian "Imitation" of Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood", which toured parts of NSW.

  • Also in early 2004, Hugh worked with musician Peter Winkler and singer Jeannie Lewis on a production of "The Cat who walked by Himself", an adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story.
    Hugh was responsible for the narration and the voices of all the other characters, except the Woman, obviously!
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Acting Biography

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THEATRE
Good Sometime (Short & Sweet 2002, Newtown Theatre)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Pilgrim Theatre 
Antony and Cleopatra (Domain Theatre)
Statements after an arrest under the Immorality Act  (1986 Belvoir Street Downstairs) 
Theatre in Education (1986 Brown's Lane Theatre Company)
Theatresports (1986 Belvoir Street 
Cityscape (1982 Sydney Festival event) Hyde Park
The Bacchae by Euripides (1981 Playbox Theatre, Melbourne 
Five Funny Folk Tales  (1979, 1980 Victorian Arts Council Regional Tours) 
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 New Theatre 
Was He Anyone?  (1974 New Theatre 
Rose Tattoo (1974 New Theatre 
The Hostage (1973 Cronulla Arts Theatre)


PANTOMIMES - Self-written, directed and produced
Jacqui & The Beanstalk - (Bondi Pavilion 1984)
Sometimes Friends  - (Westmead Hospital 1983)
Santa's Magic Belt  - (Westmead Hospital 1982)
Sugar-gummed Fairy  - (Westmead Hospital 1981)


TELEVISION

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ABC TV)

Rage – “Middle Aged”
Minder
Paper Man
Act of Betrayal
G.P
Alien Years
The Money or The Gun
The Last Resort
Relative Merits


COMMERCIAL NETWORKS - AUSTRALIA

A Country Practice
Miraculous Mellops
Home and Away 
Cop Shop
The Sullivans
Skyways
Rafferty's Rules


 
TV COMMERCIALS – 100%

NOVA - Melbourne
NRMA Insurance
Water Board
Lotto - Father's Day
Westpac
C.C's - Whaling
Toyota
Sorbent
SCC - Big Blue
BBC Hardware
Spinners
Midas Mufflers
Codral
Red Rooster
Red Tulip

INDUSTRY TRAINING FILMS - CORPORATE & COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Arnott's
BHP
Sydney Water
James Hardie Industries
Rehabilitation (NSW Gov)
Home & Community Care (NSW Gov)
Custody (NSW Law Society)
Let's Get Fresh (Fruit Industry )
AMP
Westpac
Qantas
Singapore Airlines
Department of Social Security
Commonwealth Employment Service
Society of St Vincent de Paul
Prudential Insurance
Pharmacy Industry

RADIO PLAYS AND COMEDY
  
"The Video Diaries" Series 1 and 2
Co-written and co-produced by Peter Sumner (2007, 2008)
"Gary K. Mankavich, Spiritual Detective"
with Max Thrower and Philip Muscatello ABC Radio 1995, 1998 

"Beef Wellington" (ABC Radio National 1995)
"Dial Up" (ABC Radio National 1995)



TV & RADIO COMMERCIALS - VOICEOVERS

Clients include:
Toyota
Finish
AGL
Optus
Westfield
Peugeot
StGeorge   
Chrysler
Suzuki
Foxtel      
Mitsubishi
OPSM
ACP
RTA
Caltex
Orange  
2DAY FM
2MMM
2WS
2UE
2CH
2GB
NOVA
96.9
C91.3

 

FILM, DOCUMENTARY AND CORPORATE  VOICEOVERS

Highway Patrol 2008 - 2011
Dog Squad
Most Shocking
Most Daring
Popstars  2000 -2002
Australian Defence Forces
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria
Pacifica series for Discovery channel
Wildlife of the River Valley
Negotiation Skills ( CD-ROM)
Sydney Futures Exchange
Abattoir Terminology
CSIRO
Yokohama Tyres
Sebel Furniture
Pearl Industry

Last Updated (Sunday, 28 August 2011 21:22)

 
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