Jeremy Kewley
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Jeremy Leo Kewley is an Australian actor, based in Melbourne, who made his professional acting debut at the age of 14 in the feature film The Devil's Playground (1976).
While still attending school at Melbourne's Haileybury College
, Kewley was discovered by Fred Schepisi and cast in The Devil's Playground and went on to teenage roles in films such as Mad Dog Morgan
, opposite Dennis Hopper
and Jack Thompson
, and the Bruce Beresford
film The Getting of Wisdom
, as well as television series including Bellbird
, The Sullivans
and Twenty Good Years
.
He moved to Sydney to star in the ill-fated Arcade
(1980), the highly publicized television series in which he played teen heartthrob Robbie Stewart. It was a critical and commercial failure but it gained Kewley a following, and led to a succession of roles both on television and on stage, particularly in comedy.
, Prisoner
, The Young Doctors
, Thunderstone
, Cop Shop
, The Man From Snowy River
, SeaChange
, The Secret Life Of Us
and Neighbours
where he played Dr Adrian Ewart during 1995.
From 1994 to 1995 he appeared in the critically acclaimed ABC-TV
drama series Janus
(1995 Logie Award
Winner for Best Drama Series and Best Actor) where he played the lead role of Crown Prosecutor Vic Manoulis.
In 1997 he began playing the recurring role of local Mount Thomas journalist Tony Timms in Blue Heelers
until the series ended in 2006.
And from 2000 to 2004 he played Detective Senior Sergeant Bryan Gray in the Nine Network
's undercover police series Stingers
(Best Drama Series – 2004 AFI Awards
).
In 2007 he appeared as Frank Parry QC opposite Jack Thompson
and Colin Friels
in the ABC-TV mini-series Bastard Boys
, and began playing the recurring role of Adam Gardiner in the Nine Network's outback drama McLeod's Daughters
.
In 2009/2010 he guest starred in popular Australian series like Bed of Roses
and City Homicide
.
In June 2010 he was cast in the first movie spin-off of Australian series Underbelly
, Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here
, which tells the story of two murdered police officers.
Kewley plays one of the lead roles in the Screentime movie which premiered on Australia's Nine Network
in February 2011.
, Disappearance (2002) a mystery thriller set in Nevada, in which he starred opposite Harry Hamlin
and Susan Dey
, and The X Team (2003) a snow-bound action adventure shot in the New Zealand
Alps for Touchstone Pictures
and Mandalay Pictures
.
He plays the lead role of US film producer Jerry Goldman in Frank & Jerry (2011); stars in These Empty Streets (2011) for director Jarrah Gurrie and for director Dee McLachlan
he appears in Eliminated! (2010).
he appeared in the situation comedy series Bligh and Wedlocked
; for ABC-TV he was a regular in The Gerry Connolly Show sketch comedy series; made a number of appearances on Backberner
; played one of the leads in the 1996 sit-com pilot Darling! and guest starred in episodes of The Adventures of Lano and Woodley
, Pig's Breakfast
, and the 2006 Hamish and Andy mock-current affairs series Real Stories
.
In 2008 he appeared on Rove Live
, and had recurring roles on the ABC-TV sit-com Very Small Business
and the Australian version of the Disney Channel's As The Bell Rings
.
In 2009 he starred in the eight-part comedy series Whatever Happened To That Guy?
for The Comedy Channel
on Foxtel
and played the role of television network CEO Charles Kane in the pilot of the Foxtel comedy series I Can't Believe It's Not Better.
and Candid Camera on Australia to Australia's Brainiest Kid, National Bingo Night
and the Marngrook Footy Show.
He has been the 'warm-up comedian' for the AFL version of The Footy Show
every week since it began in 1994, and as well as the weekly studio-based shows produced out of GTV 9 in Melbourne, he has also been part of all The Footy Show broadcasts live from Perth
, Hobart
, Adelaide
and Sydney; the annual "Grand Final" specials in front of 13,000 people at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena
; the high-rating shows broadcast live from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
, in London in 2001 and 2005; and The Footy Show World Cup Spectacular, broadcast live from the classic Prinzregententheater
in Munich
, Germany, in 2006.
Over the years he has also been the audience warm-up comedian for shows including The X Factor
, 1 vs. 100
, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
, Backberner
, Unreal TV
, Quiz Master, Australia's Brainiest Celebrity Specials, In Melbourne Tonight
, Comedy Inc, Difference Of Opinion
and Temptation.
He is also often employed as the Master of Ceremonies at big television events like the annual Australian Film Institute Awards
.
And he has hosted pilots for his own television game shows including Punchlines
(Seven Network
), Pro-Am Quiz (Nine Network
) and Run For The Money (Network Ten
).
Kewley spent seven years at Nero's Fiddle Theatre Restaurant (1984–1990), five years at French Nickers Theatre Restaurant (1991–1995) and ten years at Hunchbax Theatre Restaurant (1996–2006) performing in shows which he also wrote and directed. He created numerous shows at Hunchbax, including "Good Will Humping", "Forrest Hump", "Bravehump", "Raiders Of The Lost Hump", "Dude, Where's My Hump?, "The Spy Who Humped Me", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Humpy", "The Full Humpy" and "Hump-erectomy," many of which were choreographed by Jodie Greenwood
.
In 2009 he appeared in the premiere of the Australian plays Friday Night, In Town and She's My Baby, and starred in the stage show Call Girl the Musical
.
In 2010 he was cast as 'Glad Hand' in the revival of West Side Story
and (from August 2010 to January 2011) played the role at Melbourne's famous Regent Theatre, Perth's Burswood Theatre, Adelaide's Festival Theatre, and the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane.
In 2011, as part of the 25th Annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival
he starred in the play "It's All Fun and Games (Until Someone Gets Hurt)".
, and produced and co-directed the comedy The Skateboard Saga (1987) which won the 1987 Film Victoria
Trophy; was named Best Short Film at the 1987 Melbourne International Film Festival
; won Best Film at the 1987 Ten Best On 8 Film Festival. With his co-director and co-producer Don Percy, he took the film to Cannes
and New York, and sold it to New World Pictures in Los Angeles.
He has produced over 200 television commercials and from 1989 to 1991 he was one of the writers and presenters and Associate Producer of Network Ten's Candid Camera On Australia and TVNZ's Candid Camera On New Zealand.
In 2003 he wrote, directed and appeared in the short comedy film Image Is Everything
, shot as part of the Celebrity Film-maker Challenge for the Newcastle Shoot Out in NSW.
In 2000 he produced Funny By George: The George Wallace Story for ABC-TV, a one hour documentary that detailed the life and times of George Wallace
– Australia's great vaudeville performer and first comedy "movie star".
In 2001 he co-wrote and produced Young Talent Time Tells All, which became one of the highest rating Network Ten
programs of the year, and in 2003 he created and co-produced a three hour "special edition" DVD titled Young Talent Time: The Collection for Universal Pictures
.
Early life
Born in 1960 to Melbourne lawyers Brian and Gretchen Kewley, he is the second of their three children. His older brother James is a barrister, and his younger sister Jodie is a published author.While still attending school at Melbourne's Haileybury College
Haileybury, Melbourne
Haileybury is an independent school affiliated with the Uniting Church in Australia, located in Berwick, Brighton East and Keysborough, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school incorporates both Haileybury College, an all-boys college and Haileybury Girls' College, an all-girls college...
, Kewley was discovered by Fred Schepisi and cast in The Devil's Playground and went on to teenage roles in films such as Mad Dog Morgan
Mad Dog Morgan
Mad Dog Morgan is a 1976 Australian bushranger film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson and David Gulpilil. It is based upon the life of Dan Morgan...
, opposite Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
and Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson (actor)
Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society...
, and the Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...
film The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since.-Plot introduction:...
, as well as television series including Bellbird
Bellbird (TV series)
Bellbird was an Australian soap opera set in a small Victorian rural township. The series was produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at its Ripponlea TV studios in Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria. The series was produced between 28 August 1967 and December 1977...
, The Sullivans
The Sullivans
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-classMelbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives...
and Twenty Good Years
Twenty Good Years
Twenty Good Years was an NBC situation comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow, Heather Burns and Jake Sandvig that ran from October 11, 2006 until November 1, 2006. The series had also been slated to air on CTV in Canada...
.
He moved to Sydney to star in the ill-fated Arcade
Arcade (TV series)
Arcade is an Australian television soap opera shown in 1980 that became one of the biggest flops in the history of Australian television. It aired on Network Ten with the premiere episode shown on Sunday, 20 January 1980. The series then ran five nights a week, Mondays to Fridays, as a 30 minute...
(1980), the highly publicized television series in which he played teen heartthrob Robbie Stewart. It was a critical and commercial failure but it gained Kewley a following, and led to a succession of roles both on television and on stage, particularly in comedy.
Acting Career – Television
Kewley went on to appear in numerous Australian television series including The Henderson Kids IIThe Henderson Kids
The Henderson Kids was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series....
, Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
, The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March...
, Thunderstone
Thunderstone (TV series)
Thunderstone is a 1999 Australian children's television series produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions set in a post-apocalyptic world after Earth is hit by a comet. The main character Noah is played by Jeffrey Walker...
, Cop Shop
Cop Shop
Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....
, The Man From Snowy River
The Man From Snowy River (TV series)
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in the United States as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.The television...
, SeaChange
SeaChange
SeaChange was a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2001 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong...
, The Secret Life Of Us
The Secret Life of Us
The Secret Life of Us was a television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star Entertainment and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK...
and Neighbours
Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...
where he played Dr Adrian Ewart during 1995.
From 1994 to 1995 he appeared in the critically acclaimed ABC-TV
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
drama series Janus
Janus (TV series)
Janus is an Australian drama television series screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 and 1995. Two series were produced, with a total of 26 episodes....
(1995 Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
Winner for Best Drama Series and Best Actor) where he played the lead role of Crown Prosecutor Vic Manoulis.
In 1997 he began playing the recurring role of local Mount Thomas journalist Tony Timms in Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
until the series ended in 2006.
And from 2000 to 2004 he played Detective Senior Sergeant Bryan Gray in the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
's undercover police series Stingers
Stingers
Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...
(Best Drama Series – 2004 AFI Awards
Australian Film Institute Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...
).
In 2007 he appeared as Frank Parry QC opposite Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson (actor)
Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society...
and Colin Friels
Colin Friels
-Background and training:Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a mill worker and his father a joiner. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows...
in the ABC-TV mini-series Bastard Boys
Bastard Boys
Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.-Plot:...
, and began playing the recurring role of Adam Gardiner in the Nine Network's outback drama McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...
.
In 2009/2010 he guest starred in popular Australian series like Bed of Roses
Bed of Roses (TV series)
Bed of Roses is an Australian comedy / drama television series which first screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 10 May 2008...
and City Homicide
City Homicide
City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 – 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne...
.
In June 2010 he was cast in the first movie spin-off of Australian series Underbelly
Underbelly (series)
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama which originally broadcast on the Nine Network. Each series contains 13 episodes and is based on real-life events including the Melbourne gangland killings between 1995-2004, the Griffith drug trade between 1976-1987, and the Kings Cross scene...
, Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here is an Australian made-for-television movie that aired on February 7, 2011 on the Nine Network. It is the first of three television movies in the Underbelly Files series, the other two being Infiltration and The Man Who Got Away.It tells the true story of...
, which tells the story of two murdered police officers.
Kewley plays one of the lead roles in the Screentime movie which premiered on Australia's Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in February 2011.
Movies
He has starred in motion pictures including Amy (1998) opposite Rachel GriffithsRachel Griffiths
Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian film and television actress who came to prominence in the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in the 1997 film Hilary and Jackie....
, Disappearance (2002) a mystery thriller set in Nevada, in which he starred opposite Harry Hamlin
Harry Hamlin
Harry Robinson Hamlin is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, and as Michael Kuzak in the legal drama series L.A...
and Susan Dey
Susan Dey
Susan Dey is an American actress, known primarily for her roles in film and television. Her more prominent parts came as elder daughter, Laurie Partridge, on the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, and as Grace Van Owen, a California assistant district attorney and judge on the dramatic series, L.A...
, and The X Team (2003) a snow-bound action adventure shot in the New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Alps for Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label and is one of several film labels of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Established in 1984, its releases typically feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone...
and Mandalay Pictures
Mandalay Pictures
Mandalay Pictures is a film studio founded in 1995, part of Mandalay Entertainment Group. It teams up with Sony and Paramount Pictures for most of their films. The founder and CEO is Peter Guber. From 1997 until 2002, Lionsgate Entertainment owned a stake in Mandalay Pictures...
.
He plays the lead role of US film producer Jerry Goldman in Frank & Jerry (2011); stars in These Empty Streets (2011) for director Jarrah Gurrie and for director Dee McLachlan
Dee McLachlan
Dee McLachlan is a film director, producer and writer from Middle Park, Victoria. McLachlan was born Duncan McLachlan in the early 1950s in South Africa...
he appears in Eliminated! (2010).
Comedy
For the Seven NetworkSeven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
he appeared in the situation comedy series Bligh and Wedlocked
Wedlocked
Wedlocked was an Australian sitcom that ran for 11 episodes in 1994 on the Seven Network. It was created by Andrew Knight and Doug MacLeod.Chris Gilchrist, a best-selling author and expert on marriage, is actually single...
; for ABC-TV he was a regular in The Gerry Connolly Show sketch comedy series; made a number of appearances on Backberner
BackBerner
BackBerner was an Australian political satire sketch comedy television series, broadcast on and produced by ABC TV with Crackerjack Productions. The program was hosted by stand up comic Peter Berner and noted Australian character actor Louise Siversen...
; played one of the leads in the 1996 sit-com pilot Darling! and guest starred in episodes of The Adventures of Lano and Woodley
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley is an Australian comedy television show starring the comedic duo of Lano and Woodley , consisting of two series which aired on ABC TV from 1997 to 1999...
, Pig's Breakfast
Pig's Breakfast
Pig's Breakfast is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast in 1999.The story involves two aliens, Meeba and Grob, who have crashed at a television studio on Earth in a galactic school bus. A producer at the station finds them and puts them in a TV show, thinking that the...
, and the 2006 Hamish and Andy mock-current affairs series Real Stories
Real Stories
Real Stories is an Australian satirical television comedy series produced by Carlton Television for Network Ten. It was created by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. The series was first broadcast on 22 August 2006....
.
In 2008 he appeared on Rove Live
Rove Live
Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television talk show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented...
, and had recurring roles on the ABC-TV sit-com Very Small Business
Very Small Business
Very small businesses refers to companies that are at the lower end, in terms of size, to companies that are considered small and medium enterprise. The actual definition of what size companies classify as VSBs varies from region to region, but upper limit is usually considered to be 25–50 employees...
and the Australian version of the Disney Channel's As The Bell Rings
As the Bell Rings (Australia)
As the Bell Rings is a Disney Channel original Interstitial program. The format is a selection of short live-action comedy sequences. It is an Australian adaption of the Disney Channel Italy Original Series Quelli dell'intervallo....
.
In 2009 he starred in the eight-part comedy series Whatever Happened To That Guy?
Whatever Happened to That Guy?
Whatever Happened To That Guy? is an Australian comedy series produced for The Comedy Channel. The series is a self-referential comedy series about the diminishing spotlight of a once-glorious comic, played by Peter Moon.-Synopsis:...
for The Comedy Channel
The Comedy Channel
The Comedy Channel is an Australian subscription television channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television.-History:...
on Foxtel
Foxtel
Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....
and played the role of television network CEO Charles Kane in the pilot of the Foxtel comedy series I Can't Believe It's Not Better.
Audience warm-ups
One of only a handful of television 'audience warm-up comedians' working in Australia, Kewley has worked on dozens of classic Australian television shows from Young Talent TimeYoung Talent Time
Young Talent Time is an Australian television variety program screened on Network Ten, running from 1971 until 1988. The series features a core group of young performers in the vein of The Mickey Mouse Club, and a weekly junior talent quest. The "Young Talent Team" regularly performed popular...
and Candid Camera on Australia to Australia's Brainiest Kid, National Bingo Night
National Bingo Night
National Bingo Night is an American game show hosted by Ed Sanders which premiered on ABC on May 18, 2007 with a six-episode order. Sanders is known for his work on another ABC show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition...
and the Marngrook Footy Show.
He has been the 'warm-up comedian' for the AFL version of The Footy Show
The AFL Footy Show
The Footy Show is a Logie Award winning Australian sports television program, shown on the Nine Network and its affiliates.This show, which is dedicated to the AFL and Australian rules football, made its debut on 24 March 1994 at the same time as the other version which relates to the NRL and rugby...
every week since it began in 1994, and as well as the weekly studio-based shows produced out of GTV 9 in Melbourne, he has also been part of all The Footy Show broadcasts live from Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
, Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
and Sydney; the annual "Grand Final" specials in front of 13,000 people at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena is a tennis stadium that is part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and has been the main venue for the Australian Open in tennis since 1988, replacing the ageing Kooyong Stadium...
; the high-rating shows broadcast live from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663,...
, in London in 2001 and 2005; and The Footy Show World Cup Spectacular, broadcast live from the classic Prinzregententheater
Prinzregententheater
The Prinzregententheater, or Prince Regent's Theatre, is a theatre and opera house located at 12 Prinzregentenplatz in the Bavarian city of Munich, Germany.- Building and History :...
in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Germany, in 2006.
Over the years he has also been the audience warm-up comedian for shows including The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
, 1 vs. 100
1 vs. 100
1 vs. 100 is a game show created by Endemol that is aired in several countries. The game pits one person against 100 others for a chance to win a large cash prize. The game first aired in the Netherlands as Eén tegen 100, sponsored by the Nationale Postcode Loterij .- General format :In all...
, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Australian game show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was an Australian television game show which would offer a maximum cash prize of $1,000,000 for answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty as a team...
, Backberner
BackBerner
BackBerner was an Australian political satire sketch comedy television series, broadcast on and produced by ABC TV with Crackerjack Productions. The program was hosted by stand up comic Peter Berner and noted Australian character actor Louise Siversen...
, Unreal TV
Unreal TV
Unreal TV is an Australian television show showcasing advertisements and weird video footage. It was hosted by Tim Ferguson and lasted from 1999 to 2001....
, Quiz Master, Australia's Brainiest Celebrity Specials, In Melbourne Tonight
In Melbourne Tonight
In Melbourne Tonight, also known as "IMT", was a highly popular nightly variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970....
, Comedy Inc, Difference Of Opinion
Difference of Opinion
Difference of Opinion is an Australian television program that was produced and broadcast by ABC1. It began at the start of 2007, hosted by ex-60 Minutes journalist Jeff McMullen. It is a debating program....
and Temptation.
He is also often employed as the Master of Ceremonies at big television events like the annual Australian Film Institute Awards
Australian Film Institute Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...
.
And he has hosted pilots for his own television game shows including Punchlines
Punchlines
Punchlines was a comedy game show series that was produced by LWT and aired on the ITV network from January 3, 1981 until December 22, 1984...
(Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
), Pro-Am Quiz (Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
) and Run For The Money (Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
).
Theatre
Every week for 23 years Kewley performed live comedy at some of Melbourne's leading theatre restaurants.Kewley spent seven years at Nero's Fiddle Theatre Restaurant (1984–1990), five years at French Nickers Theatre Restaurant (1991–1995) and ten years at Hunchbax Theatre Restaurant (1996–2006) performing in shows which he also wrote and directed. He created numerous shows at Hunchbax, including "Good Will Humping", "Forrest Hump", "Bravehump", "Raiders Of The Lost Hump", "Dude, Where's My Hump?, "The Spy Who Humped Me", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Humpy", "The Full Humpy" and "Hump-erectomy," many of which were choreographed by Jodie Greenwood
Swagman Restaurant
The Swagman Restaurant was a restaurant in Ferntree Gully, Melbourne, Australia, which opened in 1972 and burnt down in 1991. The restaurant was famous in Melbourne for its long-running television commercials, cabaret shows, and smorgasbord....
.
In 2009 he appeared in the premiere of the Australian plays Friday Night, In Town and She's My Baby, and starred in the stage show Call Girl the Musical
Call Girl the Musical
Call Girl the Musical is a musical conceived by Australian TV comedian and writer Tracy Harvey and Doug MacLeod, with musical arrangements from Jack Howard and direction from Bryce Ives. - Background :...
.
In 2010 he was cast as 'Glad Hand' in the revival of West Side Story
West Side Story
West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
and (from August 2010 to January 2011) played the role at Melbourne's famous Regent Theatre, Perth's Burswood Theatre, Adelaide's Festival Theatre, and the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane.
In 2011, as part of the 25th Annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is the third-largest international comedy festival in the world and the largest cultural event in Australia. Established in 1987, it takes place annually in Melbourne over four weeks in April typically opening on or around April Fool's Day...
he starred in the play "It's All Fun and Games (Until Someone Gets Hurt)".
Producer
In 1986 he wrote and produced the short thriller The LakeThe Lake
The Lake was a British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles....
, and produced and co-directed the comedy The Skateboard Saga (1987) which won the 1987 Film Victoria
Film Victoria
Film Victoria is a statutory authority of the State Government of Victorian, Australia that provides strategic leadership and assistance for film, television, and digital media production in the Australian state of Victoria....
Trophy; was named Best Short Film at the 1987 Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival is an acclaimed annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1951, making it one of the oldest in the World....
; won Best Film at the 1987 Ten Best On 8 Film Festival. With his co-director and co-producer Don Percy, he took the film to Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
and New York, and sold it to New World Pictures in Los Angeles.
He has produced over 200 television commercials and from 1989 to 1991 he was one of the writers and presenters and Associate Producer of Network Ten's Candid Camera On Australia and TVNZ's Candid Camera On New Zealand.
In 2003 he wrote, directed and appeared in the short comedy film Image Is Everything
Image Is Everything
Image Is Everything was the first 7" vinyl release by the band 3-Ply and featured their very first recorded songs from early 1995. The band gained some criticism from the release of the record, due to the picture used for the cover, however 3-ply stated that "if you are racist you're probably too...
, shot as part of the Celebrity Film-maker Challenge for the Newcastle Shoot Out in NSW.
In 2000 he produced Funny By George: The George Wallace Story for ABC-TV, a one hour documentary that detailed the life and times of George Wallace
George Wallace (Australian comedian)
George Wallace , was an Australian comedian, vaudevillian and film star. He was one of the most famous and successful Australian comedians on stage and screen in the twentieth century.-History:...
– Australia's great vaudeville performer and first comedy "movie star".
In 2001 he co-wrote and produced Young Talent Time Tells All, which became one of the highest rating Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
programs of the year, and in 2003 he created and co-produced a three hour "special edition" DVD titled Young Talent Time: The Collection for Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
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