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Michael Pate
Age: 88 (passed away Sep. 1st, 2008)
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Birth Place: Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia
Born: Feb. 26th, 1920
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BIOGRAPHY: The future movie bad man was born in Drummoyne, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and got his career start as an interviewer on the government's radio station. Pate also worked on the Australian stage and in Down Under movies before relocating to th e U.S. in the early 1950s to appear in Universal's "Thunder on the Hill, " the film version of a Charlotte Hastings play ("Bonaventure") in which he had appeared. Pate acted in many American films and TV series, then returned to Australia in the late '60s and worked (again) in that country's film industry; he co-starred in his own Aussie TV series, "Matlock Police". Pate also began working behind the camera; one of his best-known writing-producing-directing credits is "Tim", the story of the relationship between an older woman (Piper Laurie) and a retarded young man (Mel Gibson).
TRIVIA:
- Fought in the Australian army during World War II.
- Brother-in-law of 'Phillip Rock' (qv).
- Invited to join AMPAS in 1961.
- Son-in-law of 'Joe Rock (I)' (qv) and 'Louise Granville' (qv).
- Was the first actor to play James Bond's CIA counterpart, Felix Leiter, in the television adaptation of Casino Royale. In this version, however, he is renamed Clarence Leither and, since Bond and Leiter's nationalities were reversed, he was an MI6 agent instead.
- He was awarded the O.A.M. (Order of Australia Medal) in the 1997 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the performing arts as an actor, producer, and writer for the Australian Film, Radio, and Television Industries.
- Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by 'Tom Weaver (I)' (qv) (McFarland, 1996).
- Also look at 'Felippa Pate' (qv).
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