Name Jonathan Sweet Role Actor | Movies Quigley Down Under | |
Jonathan Sweet is an Australian actor best known as a character actor and for his supporting roles.
Career
Sweet's early career break was in a 1969 episode of the Australian cult TV classic Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
Sweet co-starred in the 1969 TV series Riptide, an Australian production starring the American actor Ty Hardin as Moss Andrews, the owner of a charter boat. Sweet played Neil Winton, a medical student who gets into trouble with some criminals and is helped out by Andrews. Winton is later given a job on the charter boat by Andrews.
Sweet was cast in the 1985 TV mini-series Anzacs, portraying Wallace, a former British soldier who had absconded from Afghanistan to Australia.
Sweet was also cast as Sergeant Thomas in the 1990 Tom Selleck movie Quigley Down Under.
Sweet has been cast as a supporting actor in a number of popular Australian TV series including the long-running soap operas Prisoner and A Country Practice.