Terry Norris has died aged 92 (Picture: Seven/Getty)
Australian star Terry Norris has sadly died aged 92.
The late star was best known for his roles in Jack Irish, Bellbird, and Cop Shop, to name just a few.
His acting CV actually boasted over 80 roles, and he was one of Australia’s most experienced actors.
He also enjoyed a 10-year term in the Victorian Labor government.
According to TV Tonight, he is survived by three children: Dominic, Jane and Sarah, as well as his wife Julia Blake, and their four grandchildren.
He met his wife, also an actress, in a British theatre troupe when he was just 21.
He is survived by his wife Julia Blake, also an actress (Picture: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images)
Both Norris and Blake – known for starring in Bed of Roses, Prisoner, and Travelling North – went on to receive the Equity Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Speaking in one of his last ever interviews with TV Tonight, Norris said: ‘The West End was one’s Mecca and so I went to England and I spent the next 12 years bumming around in repertory theatre. It was fantastic. Every town of every size had its own professional theatre.’
He said of his wife: ‘We met in York, a lovely city, we were both in a company there. We got married between a matinee and evening performance of the show we were doing.
‘A lot of performers you worked with in those days spent their entire lives in “rep” and I didn’t want to finish up in a bed sitting-room somewhere, down on my bean end, never going to get any further. We wanted to have a family so I persuaded Julia to come back to my hometown.’
The loved-up couple settled in Melbourne in 1962.
He appeared in 80 projects throughout his acting career (Picture: ABC)
‘I had 20 years with the longest run of luck of any actor on the face of the Earth!’, the late star previously said of his lengthy career and success.
‘I was never, ever out of work. Sometimes doing two and three at the same time, because in those days there were lots of bits and pieces,’ he recalled.
As for his stint in politics, he took a detour from performing in 1982, saying his time in government came from union work for Actors Equity.
Representing voters in Dandenong, he described it as ‘an experience,’ if not necessarily enjoyable. But one that gave him insight into humanity.
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‘I had the biggest ethnic group in the state and the biggest unemployment and drug problem. It was challenging but nevertheless interesting,’ he said.
‘But you never get what you want, totally so you come to some sort of agreement. But it’s like life anyway, isn’t it?’
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He is survived by a wife, three children, and four grandchildren.
