John Wood John Wood i(A8897 works by)
Born: Established: 1946 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 2 y separately published work icon How I Clawed My Way to the Middle John Wood , Melbourne : Penguin , 2020 20399237 2020 single work autobiography 'The long awaited autobiography of one of Australia's best loved actors.

'‘Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!’ I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke – had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got.

'John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of high school, an employment officer told him, ‘You have the mind of an artist and the body of a labourer.’ And so John continued to pursue his acting dreams in amateur theatre, sustaining himself by working jobs as a bricklayer, a railway clerk and even in the same abattoir as his father.

'When he won a scholarship to NIDA, in Sydney, it moved John into a new and at times baffling world, full of extraordinary characters. It was the start of a decades-long acting career, most famously on shows such as Rafferty’s Rules and Blue Heelers, where his charm made him beloved in households across the country. His popularity was such that he was nominated for a Gold Logie nine times in a row, finally culminating in a win in 2006.

'How I Clawed My Way to the Middle is a beguiling memoir from one of Australia’s most cherished actors on both stage and screen. Full of humility, warmth and humour, it tells of the ephemeral nature of theatre, the luminous personalities John encountered along the way, and the perilous reality of life as a professional actor in Australia.' (Publication summary)
 
1 The Boomers at 65 : John Wood : Actor John Wood , 2010-2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 31 December-1 January 2010-2011; (p. 5)
1 6 form y separately published work icon Blue Heelers Tony Morphett , Hal McElroy , Seven Network (publisher), Tony Morphett , Ysabelle Dean , Howard Griffiths , Ted Roberts , Greg Haddrick , Graeme Koetsveld , Anne Brooksbank , John Upton , Peter A. Kinloch , Tim Gooding , Ray Harding , Everett de Roche , Judith Colquhoun , Patrick Edgeworth , Justin Glockerla , Stephen Measday , Sue Hore , Alan Hopgood , John Lord , Rachel Lewis , John Coulter , Hugh Stuckey , Peter Gawler , David Allen , Cassandra Carter , Michaeley O'Brien , Fred Clarke , Margaret Plumb , John Wood , Leon Saunders , Wal Saunders , Russell Hagg , Ruth Field , Shane Brennan , Max Singer , Michael Winter , David Phillips , John Banas , Jennifer Rowe , David William Boutland , Annie Beach , David Worthington , Peter Dick , Robert Harris , Louise Crane , Chris Phillips , David Marsh , Jenny Lewis , Rick Held , Kathie Armstrong , Emma Honey , Bill Garner , Beverley Evans , Anthony Ellis , Mary McCormick , David Anthony , Carol Williams , Matthew Williams , Paul Davies , Craig Wilkins , Roger Dunn , Mary Graham , Harry Jordan , Geraldine Pilkington , Caroline Stanton , Grace Morris , Piers Hobson , Lyn Ogilvy , Deborah Parsons , Bob Cameron , Brian Bell , Kelly Lefever , Karin Altmann , Coral Drouyn , Jon Stephens , Marieke Hardy , Michael Brindley , Harriet Smith , Jo Merle , Chris Corbett , Tom Hegarty , Abe Pogos , Petra Graf , Anne Melville , Julie O'Brien , Peter Hepworth , Rob George , Jane Allen , Noel Maloney , Michael Voigt , Maureen Sherlock , Alison Nisselle , Elizabeth Coleman , John Ridley , Stuart Page , Jeff Truman , Rohan Trollope , Vicki Madden , Forrest Redlich , Jo Kasch , James Dunbar , Kylie Needham , Samantha Winston , ( dir. Mark Callan et. al. )agent 1994 Sydney Australia : Hal McElroy Southern Star Seven Network , 1994-2006 Z1367353 1994 series - publisher film/TV crime

A character-based television drama series about the lives of police officers in the fictitious Australian country town of Mt Thomas, this series began with the arrival of Constable Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) to the Mt Thomas station in the episode 'A Woman's Place'. Doyle and avuncular station boss Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon (John Wood) were the core characters of the series until the departure of Lisa McCune.

Immensely popular for a decade, Blue Heelers was cancelled in 2006 after thirteen seasons. The announcement was front-page news in Australia's major newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney's Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and The Age in Melbourne, and Brisbane's Courier Mail.

On June 8, 2006 Ross Warneke wrote in The Age:

'It's over and, to be perfectly blunt, there's no use lamenting the demise of Blue Heelers any more. When the final movie-length episode aired on Channel Seven on Sunday night, 1.5 million Australians tuned in, a figure that was big enough to give the show a win in its timeslot but nowhere near big enough to pay the sort of tribute that this writer believes Heelers deserved after more than 500 episodes. It is unlikely there will be anything like it again. At almost $500,000 an hour, shows such as Blue Heelers are quickly becoming the dinosaurs of Australian TV.'
1 The Enid Simmons Interview John Wood , 1992 single work drama
— Appears in: Ravages 1992; (p. 9-15)

A one sided interview with a 73 year old, almost the stereotype maiden lady. As the interview progresses the stereotype feeling falls away and what you see is a cultured, intelligent, entertaining lady. Her 'confession' at the close of the interview surprises but does not shock, and that in itself is a powerful lesson in how wrong programmed response to stereotypes is, not to mention the stereotypes.
1 1 Heels Over Head John Wood , 1992 single work drama
— Appears in: Ravages 1992; (p. 17-34)

A couple in their fifties, on Anzac Day and the visitor they always underestimated. It is an experience of the vulnerability, and pain in trying honest communication, and the joy when understood. A love story with poignancy, pathos and reality.
1 1 Dropping In John Wood , 1992 single work drama
— Appears in: Ravages 1992; (p. 1-8) Ralph and Edna go to catch up with Ralph's cousin, whom they have not seen for many years, only to find that the daughter is the only remnant of his family. The play focuses on fantasy verses reality, and highlights how one can believe one is 'in touch' with someone and actually be far from it.
1 form y separately published work icon Cop Shop Terry Stapleton , Luis Bayonas , Terry Stapleton , Vince Moran , Christopher Fitchett , Jutta Goetze , Ray Kolle , James Wulf Simmonds , John Wood , Douglas Kenyon , Peter Hepworth , Charlie Strachan , Shane Brennan , Vincent Gil , ( dir. Marie Trevor et. al. )agent Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1977 Z1815191 1977 series - publisher film/TV crime detective

Set in the fictional Riverside Police Station, Cop Shop combined self-contained stories focusing on specific police investigations with the type of open-ended serial storylines familiar from soap operas. This allowed Crawford Productions to make use of the expertise gained from their highly successful police procedurals (all recently cancelled) and serials such as The Sullivans (then still airing).

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian Television Series,

Although the format may sound predictable and routine, in fact it was pioneering. In putting women police on the screen, Crawford's were moving Australian crime drama away from being an all-male domain. In addition, by choosing a suburban police station populated both by uniformed police and plainclothes detectives, Cop Shop introduced an upstairs and a downstairs world. The latter, in particular, began to exert its own attractions with handsome young men and women in the roles of the new constables.
1 y separately published work icon Ravages John Wood , 1977 Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1992 Z152699 1977 selected work drama Ravages looks at the destructive effects of life. At the masks that we employ to protect us from society, others and ourselves, those very ones that trap us into stereotypes, and looking at life stereotypically.
1 form y separately published work icon Flash Nick from Jindavick Grahame Bond , Bill Harding , Gary Reilly , John Wood , Tony Sattler , 1973 Australia : ABC Television , 1973 Z850208 1973 single work film/TV humour

A 'surreal' sitcom set in the nineteenth century, Flash Nick from Jindavick tells the exploits of bumbling Jack Bradshaw (aka Flash Nick) as he attempts to carve out a career as a bushranger. These attempts include robbing a mail train while disguised as a roller-skating emu and trying to steal a black opal at a Country Women's Association Kung-Fu tournament, this time disguised as a harem girl. Throughout the series, he is pursued by Captain Magpie.
2 y separately published work icon On Yer Marx! John Wood , 1972 (Manuscript version)x401205 Z923523 1972 single work drama
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