The TV icon, who labored on beloved reveals resembling Babylon 5 and Matlock Police, has died in care in Melbourne.
TV legend Kevin Dobson has died on the age of 73 (Picture: Fb)
Movie director Kevin James Dobson has sadly died on the age of 73, his former brokers, Again To Crawford Productions, confirmed. The TV legend, who was married to his first spouse, Noni Hazlehurst, from 1975 to 1978, handed away in Melbourne on Saturday (February 21), after a profession spanning 4 a long time.
Taking to social media, his brokers introduced: “A younger Manchester, UK-born Kevin Dobson began at Crawford’s as a trainee earlier than changing into an assistant movie editor. Kevin labored within the USA, dwelling in Los Angeles for over 30 years. When he got here again to Australia, Kevin lived in Sydney till his sickness took him to Melbourne roughly three months in the past, the place he handed away in care within the suburb of Lilydale.”
The TV star was born in England earlier than shifting Down Beneath at 14 underneath the Ten Pound Poms scheme, which promoted immigration to Australia. His TV profession first started again within the early ‘70s, the place he labored on many Australian productions, resembling Matlock Police, Murder, A Nation Follow and Cop Store.
It didn’t take lengthy earlier than he went on to work on numerous US TV reveals, together with directing a number of episodes of Babylon 5 within the late ’90s. His last work was directing the 2010 Australian film Savages Crossing, which starred Wolf Creek star John Jarratt.
Dobson acquired a lot popularity of his work, and in 1980, he gained a Tv Society of Australia Penguin Award for Greatest TV Play for his directorial work on the sequence Younger Ramsay.
After the devastating information hit the headlines, followers flocked to social media to share their sympathies and fond reminiscences on-line. One particular person wrote: “I had many nice occasions with Kevin. We labored and partied collectively. Unhappy to listen to of his loss of life, though his spirit lives on.”
She defined that she has been “in shock ever since” they divorced, including to Lady’s Day: “John and I had some fantastic occasions collectively – after which we didn’t. That’s true of many relationships. They begin off stuffed with hope and optimism and, alongside the way in which, buried points come to the floor.”
Noni claims she knew her marriage was over when John had “grown shut” to somebody on the Higher Houses and Gardens manufacturing crew. She concluded: “At that second, I knew the wedding was over.”
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