Jonathan Sweet

Sweet's career on Australian television began when he landed a co-starring role as Neal Winton in 1969 adventure TV series Riptide,^[1] an Australian production starring American actor Ty Hardin as Moss Andrews, the owner of a charter boat. He also played the part of Stephen Quinney in the ABC series Bellbird.^[2][3]

In 1969 Sweet left Australia to pursue acting overseas in Britain, Europe, Canada and Argentina. His overseas credits during that time include war drama series Pathfinders (1972), sci-fi series Moonbase 3 (1973) and drama anthology series Play for Today.

He returned to Australia in 1980 and appeared in long-running soap opera The Restless Years and short-lived series Sporting Chance (1981).^[4]

In 1982, Sweet got his big break playing the title role in miniseries Jonah, the story of an old hunchback living in Sydney at the turn of the century, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Stone.^[5]

Sweet played Kenneth Oakley in legal series Carson's Law in 1984 for 5 episodes. He was then cast in the 1985 war miniseries Anzacs,^{[citation needed]} portraying Private Bill Harris, a former British soldier who had absconded from Afghanistan to Australia.

He also had guest roles in series such as Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Secret Valley, Five Mile Creek, Cop Shop, Prisoner, Special Squad, A Country Practice, Rafferty's Rules and Mission: Impossible.

Sweet's film credits include period crime drama Squizzy Taylor (1982), western film Quigley Down Under (1990) alongside Tom Selleck and the television movies The Highest Honour (1982), Queen of the Road (1984) and Robbery (1985) inspired by the real life Great Bookie Robbery committed in Melbourne, on 21 April 1976. His most recent film credit was action film Fink! (2005) in which he appeared alongside Sam Worthington.