Ron Haddrick Death
Ron passed away on February 11, 2020 at the age of 90 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
When did Ron Haddrick die?
February 11, 2020How old was Ron Haddrick when died?
90Where did Ron Haddrick die? What was the location of death?
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ron Haddrick Birthday and Date of Death
Ron Haddrick was born on April 9, 1929 and died on February 11, 2020. Ron was 90 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: April 9, 1929
Date of Death: February 11, 2020
Age at Death: 90
Ron Haddrick - Biography
Ron Haddrick was born on April 9, 1929 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia as Ronald Norman Haddrick. He is an actor, known for Quigley Down Under (1990), Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004) and Dawn! (1979).Trivia (2)Former first class cricketer in the premier Australian cricket competition, the Sheffield Shield. Represented South Australia three times in this competition between 1951 and 1953.He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1974 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the arts.
Haddrick has worked extensively in radio and TV throughout his career, notably for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He made an early television appearance in the 1960 television play Close to the Roof. He had his first starring TV role as Dr. William Redfern in The Outcasts, later appearing as the alien "Adam Suisse" in G K Saunders' pioneering children's science fiction series The Stranger, broadcast on the ABC in 1964–65. In 1969, he voiced Ebenezer Scrooge for an Australian produced A Christmas Carol, giving way to more work along the same lines in the Australian animation field in 1977 with a shorter version of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
In 1960 Haddrick appeared at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in a production of Murder in the Cathedral in Bonython Hall. It marked the start of a long working partnership between Haddrick and Ruth Cracknell AM. In 1970 they performed in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex. It was directed for the Old Tote in Sydney by Tyrone Guthrie and toured widely. In 1973, Haddrick, Ruth Cracknell, Gordon Chater and Garry McDonald appeared at the unpretentious Australian Theatre in Newtown in a miscellany called Aurora Australis. They were in the Old Tote’s production of David Williamson’s What If You Died Tomorrow? in 1974 and it toured Australia and played in London at the Comedy Theatre.
In the late 1970s they were in two Peter Williams productions at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Bedroom Farce and The Gin Game. In 1983 Haddrick and Cracknell played the theatrical Mr and Mrs Crummles in Richard Wherrett’s production of David Edgar’s two-part Dickens marathon, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the Sydney Theatre Company. This played at the Theatre Royal in Sydney and the State Theatre in Melbourne. In 1990 they were reunited in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters for the Sydney Theatre Company.
