Syd Conabere

Conabere was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray on 8 July 1918 and worked prolifically in the industry starting out as a stage actor with Gregan McMahon in 1938, in particularly he worked with the Melbourne Theatre Company^[1][3] and Melbourne Little Theatre, sharing the stage (and applause) with Irene Mitchell in, for example, Lilian Hellman's The Little Foxes.^[4]

Conabere had an extensive career as a character actor from the 1950s to the 2000s,^[1] regularly appearing in popular Australian television serials, including Emergency, Matlock Police and Homicide. He worked for a short period in the United Kingdom, appearing in the drama serials Z Cars and Sherlock Holmes,^[5] the comedy Please Sir!, and in the crime film Man of Violence.^[6]

In the 1980s Conabere reached a wider international audience, making occasional appearances in two long running Australian soap operas, in Neighbours as Dan Ramsay^[7] and as Doug Palmer in Sons and Daughters.^[8][9]

Sydney Conabere died in Sydney, Australia on 15 July 2008, aged 90.^[1]