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John Clayton (Australian actor)

For the Victorian British actor, see John Clayton (British actor).

John Clayton
Born
John Clayton

7 April 1940
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died25 September 2003 (aged 63)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)Actor, producer
Years active1940-2003
Known forHome and Away as Danny King
Police Rescue as Inspector Bill Adams

John Clayton (7 April 1940 – 25 September 2003) was an Australian television and film character actor, primarily in drama series and soap operas.

Clayton's most prominenr roles included that of Inspector Bill Adams on Police Rescue and Maurie Barnard on Echo Point. He also had recurring roles on Big Sky as Roland 'Riley' Watson, and on Grass Roots as Harry Bond.

He notably featured on Home And Away, where he played the brief role of the brother of Pippa Fletcher - wheelchair-using former cricketer Danny King in 1988.

Clayton also acted in theatre productions.[1]

Filmography

Film

Title Year Role Type
1974 Mother's Day Feature film
1975 Sidecar Racers Dave Ferguson Feature film
1975 Games for Parents and Other Children TV movie
1976 Me & Mr Thorne Det Sgt Merv Jackson TV movie
1977 High Rolling Arnold Feature film
1978 The Irishman Sam Brookes Feature film
1978 Newsfront Cliff Feature film
1979 Dawn! Syd Feature film
1980 Palm Beach Eric Tailor Feature film
1980 The Girl Who Met Simone De Beauvoir in Paris Short film
1980 Maybe This Time Estate Agent Feature film
1980 Consolation Prize Bus Stop Cowboy Short film
1982 Freedom CES Officer Feature film
1982 Far East Tony Alsop Feature film
1982 Ginger Meggs Mr Wentworth Feature film
1982 Goodbye Paradise Todd Feature film
1983 Midnite Spares Vincent Feature film
1983 With Prejudice Burke (uncredited) Feature film
1983 Who Killed Baby Azaria? Inspector Gilroy TV movie
1984 Man of Letters Bill the Chairman TV movie
1984 Silver City Employment Officer Feature film
1985 After Hours Lawyer Short film
1985 Unfinished Business Geoff Feature film
1987 Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train Football Coach Feature film
1987 High Tide Col Feature film
1987 Perhaps Love Ben TV movie
1988 The Everlasting Secret Family Mayor Feature film
1988 Sebastian and the Sparrow Country Cop Feature film
1988 Breaking Loose: Summer City II Neville Feature film
1988 Boundaries of the Heart Sergeant Riley Feature film
1988 To Make a Killing Graham Price Feature film
1988 Out of the Body Sergeant Whittaker Feature film
1989 Cappuccino Max Feature film
1991 Strangers Agent TV movie
1992 The Time Game Detective Wills TV movie
1992 The Last Man Hanged Father John Brosnan TV movie
1993 Shotgun Wedding Superintendent Church Feature film
1993 Joh's Jury Judge John Helman TV movie
1994 Police Rescue Inspector Bill Adams TV movie
1997 976-WISH Volleyball Jock Short film
2001 My Husband, My Killer Jim Rope TV movie
2003 Subterano Bruce Feature film

Television

Title Year Role Type
1972-73 Matlock Police Glen Roberts /Zeke Jones TV series, 2 episodes
1973 Ryan Hunt / Harry TV series, 2 episodes
1973 Stacey's Gym TV miniseries
1974 Marion Tom Carruthers TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1974 This Love Affair TV seriee, 1 episode
1971-74 Homicide Det. Const. Deegan / Dave Parsons / Sid Bennett TV series, 3 episodes
1974 Flash Nick from Jindavick Ned Kelly TV series, 1 episode
1972-75 Division 4 5 characters TV series, 5 episodes
1975 Shannon's Mob Joe TV series, 1 episode
1976 Luke's Kingdom Charlton TV miniseries, 1 episode
1976 Rush Black Jack Jessop TV series, 1 episode
1976 Bluey Bert Thompson TV series, 1 episode
1977 The Outsiders Reg McPherson TV series, 1 episode
1978 Chopper Squad Sam TV series, 1 episode
1978 The Young Doctors Det Sgt Casey TV series, 1 episode
1979 Doctor Down Under Mr Frears TV series, 1 episode
1989 Water Under the Bridge Rev Scott TV miniseries, 1 episode
1981 Menotti Tate TV series, 1 episode
1983 The Dismissal Barry Cohen TV miniseries
1984 City West TV series, 1 episode
1984 The Last Bastion Arthur Fadden TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1984 Bodyline Mr Bradman TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1985 Winners Wal TV series, 1 episode
1986 Return to Eden Priest TV series, 1 episode
1986 Alice to Nowhere Sgt Wallace TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1986-87 The Challenge Ben Lexcen TV miniseries, 6 episodes
1987 The Harp in the South Jim TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1982-87 A Country Practice Allan Crosby / Vince Glover TV series, 4 episodes
1987-88 The Flying Doctors Vince Patterson TV series, 3 episodes
1988 Joe Wilson Dick TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1988-89 Rafferty's Rules Harry Grant / Briggs TV series, 2 episodes
1988-99 Home and Away Danny King / Reverend TV series, 8 episodes
1989 Cassidy Harry TV series, 2 episodes
1991 G.P. Jack Lockwood TV series, 1 episode
1989-91 E Street Sergeant Roy Harrison / Jock Gilmore TV series, 7 episodes
1989-96 Police Rescue Inspector Bill Adams TV series, 61 episodea
1992 Tracks of Glory Mr Campbell TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1995 Echo Point Maurie Barnard TV series, 130 episodes
1996 One West Waikiki Detective Dennis Allen TV series, 1 episode
1997 Water Rats Ronald Barnsley TV series, 1 episode
1994-97 Heartbreak High Don Summers TV series, 9 episodes
1997 Big Sky Roland 'Riley' Watson TV series, 16 episodes
1998 Blue Heelers Owen Douglas TV series, 1 episode
1998 Bullpitt! Judge TV series, 1 episode
1998 Wildside Neville Grey TV series, 2 episodes
1998 The Day of the Roses Murray Farquhar TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1999 Farscape Verell TV series, 1 episode
1999-2001 All Saints Clive Cooper / Tony Wilson TV series, 3 episodes
2000-03 Grass Roots Harry Bond TV series, 18 episodes

Theatre

As actor

Title Year Role Type
1940 Family Affairs Student Theatre, Brisbane
1948 Carmen St Peters Boys', Urchin's Chorus Tivoli Theatre, Adelaide
1965 A Unicorn for Christmas Independent Theatre, Sydney
1966 Chips with Everything Independent Theatre, Sydney
1967 Saint Joan Union Hall, Adelaide
1967 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs Flinders University
1968 The Man on the Left is Joe Bigger from Topeka La Mama
1971 Norm and Ahmed Norm Phillip Street Theatre
1971 The Recruiting Officer Southern Highlands Festival Theatre
1971 A Streetcar Named Desire Southern Highlands Festival Theatre
1971 Doctor Faustus Southern Highlands Festival Theatre
1971 The Roy Murphy Show Nimrod Street Theatre
1971 Customs and Excise Nimrod Street Theatre
1971-72 The Chocolate Frog AMP Theatrette, Sydney, Russell Street Theatre
1972 Cash Jones Theatre Royal, Hobart
1972 Major Barbara Peter Shirley / Bilton Theatre Royal, Hobart
1972 Richard II Duke of Aumerle Theatre Royal, Hobart
1972 The Old Familiar Juice Russell Street Theatre
1972 A Touch of the Poet Russell Street Theatre
1972-73 Tom Russell Street Theatre
1973 Jugglers Three Playbox Theatre, Melbourne
1975 Too Old for Spring AMP Theatrette, Sydney, Playhouse Canberra
1975 The Seahorse UNSW Parade Theatre
1976 A Streetcar Named Desire Harold Mitchell Sydney Opera House
1976 The Last of the Knucklemen Pansy Playhouse Adelaide, Maitland Town Hall, Port Pirie Town Hall, Whyalla Institute, Port Lincoln Civic Hall, Cowell Institute, Port Augusta College Theatre, Woomera Village Theatre, Peterborough Town Hall, Gladstone Hall, Clare Town Hall
1976 Cowboys #2 Playhouse Adelaide
1977 The Training Run Constable Jack Kelly Bondi Pavilion
1977 Fifth Australian National Playwrights' Conference Canberra
1977 Don't Piddle Against the Wind, Mate Frank Bourke Jane Street Theatre
1977 Jack Tom Nimrod Upstairs
1978 Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage Jane Street Theatre
1978 As You Like It Duke Senior / Duke Frederick Jane Street Theatre
1978 Giants Nimrod Downstairs
1978 There were Giants in Those Days Superman Nimrod Downstairs
1978 The Job Sandy Nimrod Downstairs
1979 You Never Can Tell Fergus Crampton SGIO Theatre
1979 Breaker Morant Lord Kitchener SGIO Theatre
1979 On Our Selection Terance Maloney Jane Street Theatre, Nimrod Upstairs
1979 Waiting for Godot Pozzo Jane Street Theatre
1980 The Con Man Archie Parnell Wollongong
1980 Happy Family Mark Ensemble Theatre
1980 Piaf Family Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
1980 A Very Good Year Stables Theatre
1981 Hamlet Marcellus / Captain / Sailor Sydney Opera House
1981 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Doctor Waugh Sydney Opera House
1981 Flexitime Jim Phillip Street Theatre
1982 The Cake Man Circus Style Performer UNSW Parade Theatre, Universal Theatre Melbourne
1984 An Act of Settlement Sydney Opera House
1984 The Season at Sarsaparilla Playhouse Adelaide
1985 Sons of Cain Laurie Byrne Playhouse, Melbourne, Theatre Royal, Sydney
1989 Top Silk Seymour Centre, Melbourne Athenaeum, Canberra Theatre, Playhouse lAdelaide
1989 Lost Weekend Cremorne Theatre
1993 The Removalists Lennox Theatre, Parramatta
1993 Lumps Q Theatre, Penrith
1995 The Last Yankee Ensemble Theatre
1996 Resurrected Lennox Theatre, Parramatta
1996 Rough Justice Ensemble Theatre

As director

Title Year Role Type
1968 La Streega Director La Mama

References

  1. ^ "John Clayton".


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