Benita Collings, the Glossary
Benita Collings (born 1940) is an Australian theatre, television and film character actress and children's television presenter best known for her role on ABC TV's Play School.[1]
Table of Contents
73 relations: A Country Practice, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), Absurd Person Singular, AllMovie, Andrew McFarlane (Australian actor), Australia's Got Talent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Burke's Backyard, Computer Ghosts, Contrabandits, Danger Down Under (film), Division 4, Doctor in the House (franchise), Don Spencer, Doris Fitton, Eddie Perfect, Ensemble Theatre, Epic (1984 film), Geoff Harvey, Glynn Nicholas, Good Morning Australia (1992 TV program), Have You Been Paying Attention?, Hayes Gordon, Homicide (Australian TV series), IMDb, Independent Theatre, Janet King (TV series), John Hamblin, John Wood (actor, born 1946), Jon Ewing, Justine Clarke, Kindred Spirits (1984 film), Knowing (film), Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Lex Marinos, Matlock Police, National Museum of Australia, Neil Simon, Nicolas Cage, Our Man in the Company, Penny Cook, People's Choice Awards (Australia), Pizza (TV series), Play School (Australian TV series), Quality of Mercy (TV series), Rafferty's Rules, Return to Eden, Ronne Arnold, Scattergood: Friend of All, Secret Valley, ... Expand index (23 more) »
A Country Practice
A Country Practice is an Australian television soap opera/serial which was broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 22 November 1993, and subsequently on Network Ten from 13 April 1994 to 5 November 1994.
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ABC TV (Australian TV channel)
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network.
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Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular is a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn.
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AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.
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Andrew McFarlane (Australian actor)
Andrew McFarlane is an Australian actor with many stage, television, and film credits. Benita Collings and Andrew McFarlane (Australian actor) are Australian children's television presenters.
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Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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Burke's Backyard
Burke's Backyard was an Australian gardening and lifestyle series presented by horticulturist Don Burke, broadcast on both radio and television.
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Computer Ghosts
Computer Ghosts is a 1987 Australian film.
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Contrabandits
Contrabandits is a 1967 Australian TV series about the work of the customs department.
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Danger Down Under (film)
Danger Down Under is a 1988 TV movie by director Russ Mayberry.
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Division 4
Division 4 is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
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Doctor in the House (franchise)
Doctor in the House is the American collective name for seven separate British and Australian television comedy series inspired by a series of cinema films, which in turn were based on and inspired by a series of books by Richard Gordon, about the misadventures of a group of medical students — and their later misadventures as doctors.
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Don Spencer
Donald Richard Spencer (born 22 March 1937) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and former children's television presenter. Benita Collings and Don Spencer are Australian children's television presenters.
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Doris Fitton
Dame Doratea Alice Lucy Walkden Fitton, (3 November 18972 April 1985) was an Australian pioneering theatre entrepreneur, actress of stage and film and theatrical director and producer who established with 19 other actors The Independent Theatre Ltd. in North Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, which operated for forty-seven years. Benita Collings and Doris Fitton are Australian film actresses.
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Eddie Perfect
Eddie Perfect (born 17 December 1977) is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, comedian, writer and actor. Benita Collings and Eddie Perfect are Australian children's television presenters.
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Ensemble Theatre
The Ensemble Theatre is an Australian theatre company and theatre, situated in the Sydney suburb of Kirribilli, New South Wales.
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Epic (1984 film)
Epic (also known as Epic: Days of the Dinosaur) is a 1984 Australian animated feature by Yoram Gross, who later called it "a rather Australian film – I can't say very successful, a little bit too much experimental film, too much abstract story.".
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Geoff Harvey
Geoffrey John Harvey (6 August 1935 – 30 March 2019) was an English-Australian musician, pianist, conductor, musical director and television personality who worked at the Australian Nine Network for 38 years.
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Glynn Nicholas
Glynn Nicholas (born 1952) is an Australian actor, comedian, director, writer, and producer.
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Good Morning Australia (1992 TV program)
Good Morning Australia (or GMA), also known as GMA with Bert Newton, originally titled The Morning Show, was an Australian breakfast television variety program on Network Ten hosted by Bert Newton between 20 January 1992 and 16 December 2005 featuring regular segments and celebrity guests.
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Have You Been Paying Attention?
Have You Been Paying Attention? (abbreviated on social media as HYBPA? and stylised on-screen as Have you been paying attention? in sentence case) is an Australian panel game television quiz show on Network 10.
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Hayes Gordon
Hayes Gordon (25 February 192019 October 1999) was an American-born actor, theatre entrepreneur, theatre producer and director and acting teacher with a considerable career in Australia.
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Homicide (Australian TV series)
Homicide was a landmark Australian television police procedural drama series broadcast on the Seven Network and produced by Crawford Productions.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Independent Theatre
Independent Theatre, formerly known as The Independent Theatre Ltd., was an Australian dramatic society founded in 1930 by Dame Doris Fitton in Sydney, Australia.
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Janet King (TV series)
Janet King is an Australian television drama program which began airing on ABC1 from 27 February 2014.
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John Hamblin
John Reginald Hamblin (18 March 1935 – 21 September 2022), known affectionately as "Funny John" or "Naughty John", was a British-born Australian children's television presenter and actor of stage and screen who appeared in theatre productions, soap operas and made-for-TV films. Benita Collings and John Hamblin are Australian children's television presenters.
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John Wood (actor, born 1946)
John Wood (born 14 July 1946) is an Australian television Gold Logie Award-winning actor and scriptwriter.
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Jon Ewing
Jon Douglas Ewing (6 October 1936 – 14 March 2014) was an Australian actor and director best known for his stage work.
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Justine Clarke
Justine Clarke is an Australian actress, singer, author and television host. Benita Collings and Justine Clarke are Australian children's television presenters, Australian television actresses and Australian women television presenters.
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Kindred Spirits (1984 film)
Kindred Spirits is a 1984 Australian film about a young girl who has a psychic experience at Bondi Beach.
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Knowing (film)
Knowing (stylized as KNOW1NG) is a 2009 American science fiction thriller film directed and co-produced by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage.
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a comedy by Neil Simon.
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Lex Marinos
Alexander Francis Marinos (born 1 February 1949) is an Australian actor.
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Matlock Police
Matlock Police is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for The 0-10 Network (now known as Network 10) between 1971 and 1976.
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National Museum of Australia
The National Museum of Australia (NMA), in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation.
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Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author.
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known by his stage name Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer.
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Our Man in the Company
Our Man in the Company is an Australian comedy series which screened on the ABC in 1973 and 1974.
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Penny Cook
Penelope Cook (13 July 1957 – 26 December 2018) was an Australian actress, stage director, TV presenter and writer. Benita Collings and Penny Cook are Australian film actresses.
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People's Choice Awards (Australia)
The Australian People's Choice Awards was an Australian version of the American awards show, People's Choice Awards, staged in 1998 and 1999.
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Pizza (TV series)
Fat Pizza (simply known as Pizza, titled Fat Pizza: Back In Business from season six onwards) is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech.
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Play School (Australian TV series)
Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the educational department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), based on the original British version created by Joy Whitby, with many of the presenters former school teachers, whilst others being a mix of well known stage and screen actors and musicians.
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Quality of Mercy (TV series)
Quality of Mercy is a 1975 Australian TV series, which took the format of an anthology of television plays.
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Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules is an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1991 on the Seven Network.
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Return to Eden
Return to Eden is an Australian television drama series starring Rebecca Gilling, James Reyne, Wendy Hughes and James Smillie.
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Ronne Arnold
Ronne Arnold (1938 – 13 February 2020), also credited as Ronnie Arnold, was an African American performer, whose Australian-based career spanning some seven decades encompassed various genres.
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Scattergood: Friend of All
Scattergood: Friend of All is an Australian television sitcom which first screened on the ABC in 1975.
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Secret Valley
Secret Valley is an Australian children's television adventure series first shown on the ABC in 1980.
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Silent Number (TV series)
Silent Number is an Australian TV series about a police doctor played by Grigor Taylor.
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Simon Burke
Simon Gareth Burke (born 8 October 1961) is an Australian actor, active in films, television and theatre. Benita Collings and Simon Burke are Australian children's television presenters.
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Sleeping Beauty (2011 film)
Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 Australian erotic drama film written and directed by Julia Leigh in her directorial debut.
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Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series)
Sons and Daughters is an Australian Logie Award-winning soap opera/drama serial, broadcast by the Seven Network between January 1982 and December 1987 and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.
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Spyforce
Spyforce is an Australian television series that aired from 1971 to 1973 on Nine Network.
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Studio 10
Studio 10 was an Australian morning talk show on Network 10 which aired from 4 November 2013 to 22 December 2023.
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Sunstruck
Sunstruck, also known by the alternative title of Education of Stanley Evans, is a 1972 British–Australian comedy film directed by James Gilbert and starring Harry Secombe, Maggie Fitzgibbon and John Meillon.
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The Comedy Game
The Comedy Game is an Australian television comedy anthology series that aired in 1971 and 1973 on ABC.
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The Daily Edition
The Daily Edition was an Australian afternoon entertainment show on the Seven Network which was first broadcast on 17 June 2013 and ended on 26 June 2020.
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The Eye of the Storm (2011 film)
The Eye of the Storm is an Australian drama film directed by Fred Schepisi.
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The Godfathers (TV series)
The Godfathers is an Australian comedy drama television series which aired on the Nine Network from 1971 to 1972.
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The Morning Show (TV program)
The Morning Show is an Australian morning talk show broadcast on the Seven Network and currently hosted by Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.
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The New Adventures of Blinky Bill
The New Adventures of Blinky Bill is an Australian-live action series that featured actors, interacting with puppets that ran on ABC Television from 1984 to 1987.
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The Private World of Miss Prim
The Private World of Miss Prim is an Australian television sitcom which first screened on the Nine Network in 1966.
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The Restless Years
The Restless Years is an Australian soap opera which followed the lives of several Sydney school-leavers and the drama and relationships faced by young adults.
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The Right Thing (film)
The Right Thing is a 1963 comedy Australian television play, that was produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.
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The Rovers (TV series)
The Rovers was an Australian ocean-based family adventure television show originally screened from 21 August 1969 until 12 June 1970 and was broadcast on the 0-Ten network, the precursor of Network Ten.
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The Sullivans
The Sullivans is an Australian period drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 15 November 1976 until 10 March 1983.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Tree (2010 film)
The Tree is a French-Australian 2010 film co-produced between Australia and France.
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The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors is an Australian early-evening soap opera originally broadcast on the Nine Network and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, it aired from Monday 8 November 1976 until Wednesday 30 March 1983.
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Today Extra is an Australian morning talk show, with an infotainment base, hosted by David Campbell and Sylvia Jeffreys.
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Today Tonight
Today Tonight was an Australian current affairs television program produced by the Seven Network.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benita_Collings
Also known as Benita Collins.
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