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5 unusual facts about Tommy Dysart


Tommy Dysart

Starting in the 1990s he appeared in a series of well remembered advertisements for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil.

Tommy has enjoyed a long friendship and working relationship with director/writer Frank Howson in the movies Backstage, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, What The Moon Saw, Flynn, Crime Time, The Final Stage, The Lucky Country, and their most recent collaboration is the award winning film Remembering Nigel, which also stars Tommy's wife Joan and son Kole.

The adverts continue and Shannons Insurance also owns several of the Goggomobil cars which feature regularly in their shows.

High-profile early roles included appearances in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Phoenix Five, and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police.

His films included The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996).



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