He is well known for his television roles in The Sullivans and EastEnders, and his film roles in Time Bandits, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Horsemen.
Gibson was a part of the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s and 80s, beginning his acting career with a role on TV series The Sullivans, before starring in films, such as: Mad Max (1979).
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Gibson began his career with an appearance on the Australian television series The Sullivans.
The Sullivans | Sullivans Creek | The Fighting Sullivans | Sullivans Cove |
He was a writer, script editor, and producer on several Australian television series for Crawford Productions including soap opera The Box in 1976 & 1977, The Sullivans and police procedural drama series Division 4, Bluey (1976) and Homicide.
As a direct result of the Sullivans' deaths (and the deaths of four of the Borgstrom brothers within a few months of each other two years later), the U.S. War Department adopted the Sole Survivor Policy.
The Niland brothers family, which endured the second greatest loss by any one family during the war (made famous by the loosely adapted film Saving Private Ryan), was from the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, New York and their similar loss to the Sullivan family played a role in the decision to place The Sullivans as a museum ship in Buffalo instead of elsewhere.