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David Cahill

Australian actor, writer-producer-director & TV pioneer

Actor
writer
producer
director

David Cahill (1921 – August 2008) was an Australian actor, writer-producer and director, notable for his work directing for television from its introduction in the 1950s through to 1970s.^[1] It has been claimed he was one of the best directors working in early Australian TV.^[2] His pioneering credits at ATN7 included Australia's first religious TV series, featuring a teenaged Annette Andre, and first long-running dramatic serial starring Muriel Steinbeck.^[3]

He was also an actor and writer, and in the mid 1950s spent time in England.^[4] Back in Sydney for the 60s, Cahill broke taboos and pushed censorship limits as the director of the satirical The Mavis Bramston Show and the angry young men serial You Can't See 'Round Corners for the Seven Network. Toward the end of his directing career, Cahill helmed the majority of ABC's early colour soap opera serial Certain Women.

He was the father of Sally Cahill,^[5] the Australian actress appearing in the television series Prisoner, whom he directed in her teenage debut (Halfway to Nowhere) and a number of serial performances.

Select credits

The House on the Corner (1957-58) (Australian TV's first religious series)
Autumn Affair (1958) (early TV soap opera series, probably first in Australia)
Johnny Belinda (1959)
Other People's Houses (1959) (TV movie)
A Tongue of Silver (1959) (TV movie)
Pardon Miss Westcott (1959) (original TV movie musical)^[6]
Big Blue and Beautiful (1960) (TV movie)
Reflections in Dark Glasses (1960) (TV movie)
Shadow of a Pale Horse (1960) (TV movie)
The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (TV movie)^[7]
Thunder of Sycamore Street (1960) (TV movie)
Jonah (1962) (TV series)
Pick a Box (1963) (TV game show)
Tribunal (1963–64) (TV series)
The Mavis Bramston Show (1964–68) (TV comedy series)
Casebook (1966–67) (TV series)
You Can't See 'Round Corners (1967) (TV series)
You Can't See 'round Corners (1969) (film)
Phoenix Five (1970) (TV sci-fi series)
Catwalk (1971–72) (TV series)
Halfway to Nowhere (1972) (TV movie)
Certain Women (1973-76) (TV serial)
The Seven Ages of Man (1975) (TV series)
Kirby's Company (1977) (TV series)

References

^ Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. pp. 83–86.
^ Vagg, Stephen (4 November 2020). "Forgotten TV Plays: Pardon Miss Wescott". Filmink.
^ Vagg, Stephen (29 August 2020). "Annette Andre: My Brilliant Early Australian Career". Filmink.
^ "Freda Irvjgig's social report GUESTS FLY TO WEDDING". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 25 September 1956. p. 9. Retrieved 13 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Freda Irvjgig op. cit.
^ Vagg, Stephen (20 March 2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: Reflections in Dark Glasses". Filmink. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
^ Vagg, Stephen (17 November 2020). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: The Grey Nurse Said Nothing". Filmink.