George Spartels

 ( Australian Male Television Actors ) 

George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1954) is an Australians actor, presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greeks descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera Neighbours.

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Career Spartels has guest starred in many Australian television series from the 1970s to the present, most notably, Prisoner and Bellbird and in Neighbours playing family patriarch Benito Alessi. He has also appeared in a number of episodes of medical drama series All Saints and serial Packed to the Rafters as Carbo's father.

Other roles included Cop Shop, Punishment and The Bluestone Boys, as well as Blackfinger in the movie in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.

Spartels was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure on ABC's Play School, over a period of 14 years between 1985 and 1999.

In 2014, Spartels toured Canada, LA and Australia in The Last Confession with David Suchet.

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Depiction in Art Spartels' photoportrait, by Ivan Gaal, is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

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Personal life Spartels was previously married to Sue Spartels, followed by actress Elizabeth Alexander; married, in April 2013, to Mary Spartels and resided in Sydney, Australia. Divorced from Mary in 2017, he returned to Melbourne and commutes.

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Filmography

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Film

1977	Out of It	Tony	Short film
1978	Blue Fin	Con	Feature film
1985		Blackfinger	Feature film
1988	Computer Ghosts	Pi Wratich	TV movie
1989	Action Replay		TV movie
1992	Seeing Red	Mark	Feature film
1999	Kick	Jack Grant	Feature film
2023	The Adventures of Wolfdogg and Redridinghood	Narrator	Short film

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Television

1971-75	Matlock Police	Danny Porter, Willie Bennett, Walters, Frank Clark, Bob	TV series, 5 episodes
1972-75	Division 4	Harry, Terry Hughes, Gino Napoli, Youth1	TV series, 4 episodes
1971-76	Homicide	John Smith, Russell Knight, Simon Littlewood, Nick Pappas, Peter Fletcher, Anton Palades, Mechanic	TV series, 7 episodes
1974	This Love Affair		TV series, 1 episode
1976	Solo One	Harry Thomas	TV series, 1 episode
	Bellbird		TV series
1976	The Bluestone Boys		TV series
1976-77	Bluey	Steve Berry, Wilson	TV series, 2 episodes
1977	Bobby Dazzler	George	TV series, 3 episodes
1977	Hotel Story		TV series
1978	Father, Dear Father in Australia	George	TV series, 1 episode
1978-89	Cop Shop	Claudio Gustino, Chris Murray, Fergus	TV series, 3 episodes
1979	Chopper Squad	Man in hang glider	TV series, 1 episode
1979-80	Prisoner	Herbie	TV series, 5 episodes
1981	Punishment	David ‘Robbo’ Roberts	TV series
1984	Sweet and Sour	Nick Poulopolous	TV series, 18 episodes
1985-99	Play School	Presenter	TV series
1986	The Great Bookie Robbery	Jaffa Davis	TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1990	Rafferty's Rules	Stefan Bosnjack	TV series, 1 episode
1991	All Together Now	Georgie Leonard	TV series, 1 episode
1992-93	Neighbours	Benito Alessi	TV series, 47 episodes
1997	Fallen Angels	Dan Playhard	TV series, 1 episode
2002-06	All Saints	The Professor, Craig Watts, Peter Talbot	TV series, 3 episodes
2009	City Homicide	Frank Scarsdale	TV series, 1 episode
2009-12	Packed to the Rafters	Theo Karandonis, Carbo's father	TV series, 4 episodes

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Theatre

1971	Godspell		Playbox Theatre
1981-82	Chicago	Amos Hart	Sydney Opera House's Drama Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Theatre Royal, Comedy Theatre, Festival Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival
1989	Greek Tragedy		Company B, Belvoir Street Theatre

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Awards

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ARIA Music Awards

1993	George from Play School	Best Children's Album
1998	Let's Go Out
2001	George Meets The Orchestra

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External links

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