George Spartels
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George Spartels | |
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| Born | George Bernard Spartels April 25, 1951 Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Actor children's presenter |
George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1951) is an Australian actor of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and Irish/English on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera Neighbours, playing family patriarch Benito Alessi, along with Prisoner and Bellbird star and soap veteran Elspeth Ballantyne as his wife Cathy Alessi, two son's Felice Arena And Dan Falzon, the Alessi family of Italian descent where added to the series in mid=1992, as a new family, joining already cast cousins the Blakeney sisters.
Spartels, waa also a children's television presenter, having had a along tenure on the ABC's Play School, over 14 years between 1985 and 1999, has produced a number of children's videos. Other role's include Prisoner in 1979, Punishment in 1981, and Blackfinger in the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.
Personal life
Spartels was previously married to actress Elizabeth Alexander, and is now married as of April 2013, to Mary Spartels and resides in Sydney, Australia. He has guest starred in many other Australian television series from the 1970s to the present, and has appeared in a number of episodes of the medical drama series All Saints and serial Packed to the Rafters as Carbo's father. He is now touring in Canada, LA and Australia in the "The Last Confession" alongside David Suchet.
Awards
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
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| 1993 | George from Play School | Best Children's Album | Nominated |
| 1998 | Let's Go Out | Nominated | |
| 2001 | George Meets The Orchestra | Nominated |
External links
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- Australian actors of Greek descent
- Male actors of Greek descent
- Australian people of English descent
- Australian people of Irish descent
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