{"id":17581,"date":"2011-05-22T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T01:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=17581"},"modified":"2011-05-22T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T01:41:56","slug":"vale-bill-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2011\/05\/22\/vale-bill-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Bill Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_17582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17582\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17582\" title=\"HUNTER_wideweb__430x235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HUNTER_wideweb__430x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HUNTER_wideweb__430x235.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HUNTER_wideweb__430x235-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Hunter (in front of his Archibald-winning portrait) - 1940-2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australian acting legend Bill Hunter, best known for his appearances in locally produced &#8220;blockbusters&#8221; <em>Muriel&#8217;s Wedding, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert<\/em> and <em>Strictly Ballroom<\/em>, has passed away today, after a battle with cancer. Perhaps not as well known internationally as he deserved, here in Australia it was almost impossible to imagine a big-budget production going on without his input &#8211; most recently, he voiced the character of Bubo in <em>Legends Of The Guardians: The Owls Of GaHoole<\/em>, and keen listeners will recognize his voice from <em>Finding Nemo<\/em> (he played the dentist). He appeared in the Australian-based episode of <em>The Pacific<\/em>, as well as a minor role in Bazz Lurhmann&#8217;s<em> Australia<\/em>. His most famous roles were the aforementioned <em>Muriel&#8217;s Wedding, Priscilla<\/em>, and <em>Strictly Ballroom<\/em> (where he played the conniving, win-at-all-costs dancing competition head honcho), but for me, his most enduring and<em> truly<\/em> Australian role was in Mick Molloy&#8217;s <em>CrackerJack<\/em>, a film much the same in tone to the truly hilarious <em>The Dish<\/em>. His affable and charming personality, mixed with a down-to-earth love of his craft, endeared him to audiences everywhere &#8211; gruff and lovable, Bill was a genuine larger-than-life figure within the Australian film industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Early roles included turns in <em>Newsfront<\/em> and<em> Gallipoli<\/em>, both films winning him an AFI Award, before mainstream success internationally came with <em>Strictly Ballroom<\/em> &#8211; a breakout film from Bazz Lurhmann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill Hunter passed away today, aged 71. Of all the local acting talent to grace our screens, he will be the most acutely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian acting legend Bill Hunter, best known for his appearances in locally produced &#8220;blockbusters&#8221; Muriel&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}