Name Maurie Fields Role Actor | Awards Logie Awards Hall of Fame | |
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Occupation Comedian, television actor, Vaudevillan. Died December 18, 1995, Melbourne, Australia Children Marty Fields, Lorraine Fields, Alan Fields, Eileen Fields Movies and TV shows Similar People Val Jellay, Marty Fields, Philippe Mora, David Hannay, Paul Cox | ||
Maurie Fields who played Vic Buckley in the flying doctors
Maurie Fields (4 August 1926 – 18 December 1995) was an Australian actor, vaudeville performer and stand-up comedian. He became a well-known face on television thanks to his dramatic roles, as the conniving John Quinney in ABC TV's Bellbird, as well as in soap operas on commercial television including Cop Shop, The Box, Prisoner (a small part playing "crooked" screw, Leonard "Len" Murphy) and in The Flying Doctors, publican Vic Buckley. He was also a regular as Fred Farrell in situation comedy series Bobby Dazzler (1977) and did regular comedy segments on Hey Hey It's Saturday. He was also the editor of the jokes pages of the Australasian Post magazine for many years, a role continued by his son Marty after Maurie's passing.
Contents
- Maurie Fields who played Vic Buckley in the flying doctors
- The Great Aussie Joke 1993 Ep 12
- Personal life
- Selected filmography
- References
The Great Aussie Joke, 1993 (Ep. 12)
Personal life
Fields was the son of an accountant and married twice. His first wife was Dorothy and they had three children, Lorraine, Eileen and Alan. He then married the actress Val Jellay, who was also his screen wife in The Flying Doctors. They played publicans Vic and Nancy Buckley. He was the father of comedian Marty Fields. He died on 18 December 1995, from a heart attack.
Fields was inducted into the Logie Awards, Logie Hall of Fame in 1996. The second posthumous honour, with the award being accepted by his wife, Val Jellay
During the first Hey Hey It's Saturday reunion show, Fields was rotocaptured into the set so that he was able to do the "Great Aussie Joke" with his son Marty.