Name Fay Kelton Role Television actress | Movies The Misanthrope | |
Occupation Stage, radio and television actress Years active 1961–1988; 1994–1995, 2001 | ||
Fay Kelton is a retired Australian stage, radio and television actress. She was a regular performer on the Australian Broadcasting Company radio serials Blue Hills, Danse Macabre and Forests of the Night during the 1960s and 70s.
Kelton also appeared on numerous television films and series, best remembered for portraying Mary Bryant in the 1963 television series The Hungry Ones with Leonard Teale, but also starred on Nice Day at the Office, Prisoner Cell Block H, A Country Practice and Home and Away.
Biography
Fay Kelton worked as a stage and radio actress prior to making her television acting debut in the television film The End Begins (1961). Two years later, she was cast as Mary Bryant in the television mini-series The Hungry Ones, with co-star Leonard Teale, and followed this with appearances in The Gioconda Smile (1963) and A Man for All Seasons (1964). She made a number of guest appearances on Homicide from 1964 to 1971. She also made one-time appearances on Dynasty and The Comedy Game, the latter performance leading to her role as Vicki Short in the comedy spinoff Nice Day at the Office in 1972.
Having moved from Melbourne to Sydney the previous year, she also performed on the Australian Broadcasting Company radio serial "Blue Hills" (as well as Danse Macabre and Forests of the Night) and in the Hugh Leonard farce "The Patrick Pearce Motel". She was working seven days a week and up to 16 hours a day. In 1974, she had a supporting role in The Musanthrope.
Following the series cancellation, Kelton guest starred on Ryan, Matlock Police, Division 4 and Power Without Glory. In 1981, she was cast as Alison Page on the cult soap opera Prisoner Cell Block H. Her character was introduced as a troubled housewife who is sent to prison for shoplifting. Despondent over the separation from her family and bullying from the other women, especially Doreen Burns (Colette Mann), she attempts suicide. Kelton later returned to stage acting and performed for the Northside Theatre Company in Sydney for much of the 1980s.
After a five-year absence, she appeared on A Country Practice in 1986 and the television miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988. In 1994, she had a recurring role as Anne Harris on Home and Away. She returned to acting once more to guest star on All Saints in 2001.