Rodney Milgate
Rodney "Rod" Milgate (30 June 1934 – 23 September 2014) was an Australian painter, newsreader, actor and playwright. During the 1960s, he was a newsreader on Channel 7. He was also the Professor of the Visual Arts School of the City Art Institute at the University of New South Wales. He was given the Blake Prize for Religious Art three times. He also wrote more than ten stage plays between 1966 and 1996. He also published a novel in 1978. He also acted in his plays, and in 1960, he appeared in three television movies.
Milgate was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He married actress Dinah Shearing in 1960. They had two sons, Matthew and Adam. He was an agnostic.
Milgate died from a heart attack on 23 September 2014 at his home in northern Sydney. He was 80.[1]
References
change- ↑ Taylor, Andrew (23 September 2014). "Artist and former TV newsreader Rodney Milgate dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
Other websites
change- Rodney Milgate on IMDb
- Rodney Milgate Archived 2012-05-19 at the Wayback Machine at AustralianPlays Archived 2014-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
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