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Martin Kevin Vaughan (born 5 June 1931)〔(IMdB: Martin Vaughan )〕 is an Australian stage, television and film actor. He is perhaps most notable for his lead role in the award-winning 26-part 1976 television series ''Power Without Glory''. ==Career== Vaughan was born in Brisbane, Queensland to a vaudeville comedian father in 1931. Moving to Sydney, New South Wales at age 17, he was employed in a number of occupations including steam presser, tram conductor, postman customs clerk and a bassoon player. After taking theatre production classes, he landed his first stage role in 1963when he was aged 32, and has never been out of work.〔(''North Shore Times'', 24 July 2011 )〕 He moved into television in 1973. In 1975 he won the Hoyts Prize for Best Performance by an Actor at the AFI Awards, for his role of Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes〔(ABC Television, ''Billy Hughes's Family Secret'' )〕 in ''Billy and Percy''. This was a tied result with Jack Thompson's role in ''Sunday Too Far Away''.〔 (His continuing interest in Billy Hughes led some years later to the revelation that Hughes's daughter Helen had died in childbirth in London; in 2004 he presented an ABC program on the story.〔(ABC "Rewind: Billy Hughes's Family Secret" )〕) His big break came in 1976, when he was chosen to play the lead role of John West in the ABC's 26-part television adaptation of Frank Hardy's novel ''Power Without Glory''. In 1977 he won the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor for this role.〔 He has since appeared in such television programs as ''The Dismissal'' (1983 miniseries; as Senator Albert Field),〔 ''Come In Spinner'' (1989-90 miniseries), ''Water Rats'', ''Blue Heelers'', ''All Saints'', ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Salem's Lot'' (2004 miniseries), and ''headLand''.〔 His feature films include ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), (''Letters from Poland'' (1978) ), ''We of the Never Never'' (1982), ''Phar Lap'' (1983), ''The Man Who Sued God'' (2001) and ''Australian Rules''.〔〔 He has also appeared in over 60 stage plays.〔Martin Vaughan〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Vaughan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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