# Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood (born c. 1948) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name. Haywood has also worked as a casting director, art director, sound recordist, camera operator, gaffer, grip, location and unit manager.

## Early life and education

Haywood was born around 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he emigrated to Australia.

## Career

Soon after arriving in Sydney, Haywood became involved with the Nimrod Theatre Company, helping to build the premises with scrap timber.
He was the artistic director of the Pros and Cons Playhouse at Parramatta Gaol from 1979 to 1981, and established the drama service on Kiribati National Radio.
His acting career encompasses roles in many films and television series.
Haywood is the Patron of the Friends of Waverley Library, where he inaugurated The Nib Literary Award, now known as the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. The prize is an annual award of $40,000 given for the quality of research for a published work of literary merit written by an Australian writer and published in the previous 12 months.
Haywood is now the Deputy Captain of VRA Hawkesbury and coxswain of their rescue boat. He is also currently working as a coxswain in the Australian pearling industry for Broken Bay Pearl Farm.

### Television

TV credits as an actor include: Homicide, Essington, Against the Wind, Five Mile Creek, Return to Eden, Waterfront, A Good Thing Going, Boys From The Bush, Water Rats, Farscape, McLeod's Daughters, All Saints, Stingers, Grass Roots, Home and Away, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce and The Pacific. Haywood appeared in Neighbours as Walter Mitchell in June 2013.
TV credits as a writer: Alvin Purple additional material (1976).

## Personal life

Haywood was married to actress, Wendy Hughes, c. 1980 and they had a child. They had met while filming Newsfront (1978), their relationship developed soon after. In April 1980 Haywood and Hughes portrayed "screen parents" in a childbirth film, For a Child Called Michael, shown to expecting parents at Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. The couple separated in 1982.

## Awards

His performances have been honoured with three Awards from the Australian Film Institute (from a total of eight nominations) for his roles in the feature films A Street to Die and Emerald City, and for television in Stingers as well as the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Kiss or Kill and the Asian Film Festival Award for In Search of Anna. He garnered three Logie Awards for his work on television-for Essington, A Good Thing Going and Janus. He won the Best Actor award at the Tampa Bay Film Festival in Florida.

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Character | Notes |
| 2018 | Reef Break | Australian Diplomat | 1 episode |
| 2018 | Harrow | Connelly | 1 episode |
| 2017 | Wolf Creek | Tom | Episode: "Journey" |
| 2017 | The Letdown | Gene | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Secret City | Lloyd Rankin | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Black Comedy | Elenco Invitado | Episode # 2.5 |
| 2012–16 | Rake | Juez Beirworth | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | Redfern Now | Doctor | Episode: "Dogs of War" |
| 2013 | Neighbours | Walter Mitchell / Dave | 10 episodes |
| 2013 | Top of the Lake | Jock | Miniseries, Episode # 1.2 |
| 2010-18 | Rake | Judge / Judge Beinworth / Prosecution | 4 episodes |
| 2010 | The Pacific | John Leckie | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2009 | My Place | Mr. O'Sullivan | 2 episodes |
| 2007 | Home and Away | Bruce Campbell | 31 episodes |
| 2007 | The Starter Wife | Mr. Lewis | Episode: "Hour 1" |
| 2006 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | Dr. Bogner | Episode: "The Road Virus Heads North" |
| 2004 | Stingers | Stevey Dawes | Episode: "Brave New World" |
| 2004 | Through My Eyes | Des Sturgess Q.C. | Miniseries |
| 2004 | Salem's Lot | Uncredited | Miniseries |
| 2003 | Fat Cow Motel | Rey Roy | Episode #1.9 |
| 2000–03 | Grass Roots | George Hasnakov | 18 episodes |
| 2002 | All Saints | Peter Buchanan | 12 episodes |
| 2001 | The Day of the Roses | Informant | Miniseries |
| 2001 | Mcleod's Daughters | Bob | 3 episodes |
| 2001 | BackBerner | Stanley Trundle | Episode #1.130 |
| 1999–2000 | Farscape | Sorcerer Maldis | 2 episodes |
| 1999 | Wildside | Jim Summers | Episode # 2.17 |
| 1996–98 | House Gang | Mike | 10 episodes |
| 1998 | Good Guys Bad Guys | Frank Conroy | Episode: "You Say Etics, I Say Ethics" |
| 1997 | Murder Call | Jack Telfer | Episode: "Hot Shot" |
| 1997 | Frontier | Ward Stephen | Miniseries |
| 1996 | Water Rats | Peter Anderson | Episode: "Wrecked" |
| 1996 | Sun on the Stubble | Conductor del Tren | Miniseries |
| 1996 | Naked: Stories of Men | Bish | Episode: "Fisherman's Wake" |
| 1996 | Pacific Drive | Bill Garland | |
| 1996 | Snowy River: The McGregor Saga | Morell | 2 episodes |
| 1994–95 | Janus | Michael Kidd | 24 episodes |
| 1995 | Fire | Detective Ron Chandler | Episode: "Glory Days" |
| 1993 | The Feds: Betrayal | Daniel "Mac" McIntyre | TV miniseries |
| 1993 | G.P. | Jack Molineaux | Episode: "One Perfect Day" |
| 1991–92 | Boys from the Bush | Dennis Tontine | 19 episodes |
| 1986 | Cyclone Tracy | Steve | Miniseries |
| 1984 | Waterfront | Ernie | Miniseries |
| 1984 | Five Mile Creek | McCrea | Episode: "Home and Away" |
| 1984 | Carson's Law | Frank White | 1 episode |
| 1984 | The Explorers | King | 1 episode |
| 1983 | Return to Eden | Jason Peebles | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | A Country Practice | Duke | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Women of the Sun | Alf | Miniseries, episode: "Maydina the Shadow" |
| 1981 | Holiday Island | Cosmos | Episode: "Mother's Revenge" |
| 1980 | The Timeless Land | Johnny | Miniseries |
| 1979 | Patrol Boat | Parkes | Episode: "Follow the Leader" |
| 1979 | Jokes | Various characters | |
| 1978-81 | Cop Shop | Various characters | 9 episodes |
| 1978 | Glenview High | Blue | Episode "Easy Money" |
| 1978 | Against the Wind | John Leary | Miniseries, episode: "The Tree of Liberty" |
| 1977 | Bluey | Chris | Episode: "The Wrong Coffin" |
| 1976 | The Sullivans | | |
| 1976 | Alvin Purple | Rod "Spike" Morley | 13 episodes |
| 1976 | Rush | Crew | Episode: "La Belle France" |
| 1976 | Homicide | Greg Ferguson | Episode: "Third Generation" |
| 1976 | Luke's Kingdom | Arthur Cage | Miniseries, 1 episode |
| 1975 | Shannon's Mob | Richard Pollard | Episode: "Mixed Doubles" |
| 1975 | Matlock Police | Pete Williams | Episode: "The Contessa" |
| 1975 | Quality of Mercy | Kurt | Episode: "Send Him on His Way Rejoicing" |
| 1975 | The Explorers | Performer | 1 episode |
| 1975 | Division 4 | Bogey | 1 episode |
| 1972 | The Aunty Jack Show | Gorilla / American at party | 2 episodes |

### Films

| Year | Title | Character | Notes |
| 2024 | The Way, My Way | Bill | |
| 2022 | The Aussie Boys | Jack | |
| 2021 | Love You Like That | Bede | |
| 2020 | Sweet River | Nigel | Feature film |
| 2020 | Groundhog Night | Ralph | Short film |
| 2019 | Dirt Music | Warwick | Feature film |
| 2019 | The Projectionist | Jack | Short film |
| 2018 | Skewwhiff | Bill | Short film |
| 2017 | Third World Man | Clinton Finch | Short film |
| 2017 | Boar | Jack | Short film |
| 2017 | Australia Day | Dr Ian Norris | Feature film |
| 2016 | The Dam | Jack | Short film |
| 2016 | Gangster Drag | Jimmy | Short film |
| 2015 | The Spa | Don | Short film |
| 2014 | Wedding of the Year | Bede | Feature film |
| 2014 | The Bugle's Call | Bluebroker | Short film |
| 2014 | Love is Now | Ben | Feature film |
| 2013 | Return to Nim's Island | Grant | Feature film |
| 2013 | Spirit Harbour | Cyril | Short film |
| 2013 | The Interviewer | Paul Dexter | Short film |
| 2012 | Hanyut | Captain Ford | Feature film |
| 2012 | Dangerous Remedy | Sir Arthur Rylah | TV movie |
| 2011 | Swerve | Armstrong | Feature film |
| 2011 | Busong: Palawan Fate | Landowner | |
| 2011 | Sleeping Beauty | Man | Feature film |
| 2010 | Savages Crossing | Chris | Feature film |
| 2010 | Beneath Hill 60 | Colonel Wilson Rutledge | Feature film |
| 2009 | The Boys Are Back | Tom | Feature film |
| 2009 | False Witness | Browning | TV movie |
| 2009 | Correspondence | Quentin Samuels | Short film |
| 2008 | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | Robert Knopwood | Feature film |
| 2008 | The View from Greenhaven | Dashiell | Feature film |
| 2008 | Salvation | Architect | Feature film |
| 2008 | A Pretty Penny | Jack | Short film |
| 2008 | The Weight of Sunken Treasure | Michael Dooley | Short film |
| 2008 | You Better Watch Out | Santa | Short film |
| 2007 | The Tank | | Short film |
| 2007 | Swing | Mr Doyle | Short film |
| 2006 | Solo | Arkan | Feature film |
| 2006 | Vend | Mechanic 1 | Short film |
| 2006 | The Water Diary | Lunch Guest | Short film |
| 2006 | Jindabyne | Gregory | Feature film |
| 2006 | Hotel Vladivostok | Man | Short film |
| 2005 | Jewboy | Sam | Feature film |
| 2005 | Adrift | Albert | Short film |
| 2004 | BlackJack: Sweet Science | Wayne Tippet | TV movie |
| 2004 | The Widower | Neville | |
| 2004 | Human Touch | Edward | Feature film |
| 2003 | Lennie Cahill Shoots Through | Twink | Feature film |
| 2003 | Paradise Found | Charles Arnaud | Feature film |
| 2003 | Subterano | Cleary | Feature film |
| 2002 | Stuffed Bunny | Father of Marcus | Short film |
| 2002 | The Nugget | Doug | Feature film |
| 2002 | Black and White | Detective Sergeant Karskens | Feature film |
| 2001 | My Husband, My Killer | George Cannellis | TV movie |
| 2001 | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Oscar | Feature film |
| 2001 | One Night the Moon | Sergeant | Short film |
| 2000 | The Monkey's Mask | Dad Fitzpatrick | Feature film |
| 2000 | Innocence | Minister | Feature film |
| 2000 | Muggers | George Roy Rogers | Feature film |
| 1999 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Clayton Strawn | Feature film |
| 1999 | Change of Heart | Harry | |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda | Mr. Judd | Feature film |
| 1997 | Fable | Flagg | Short film |
| 1997 | Blackrock | Detective Sergeant Wilansky | Feature film |
| 1997 | Kiss or Kill | Detective Hummer | Feature film |
| 1997 | One Way Ticket | Bertie | TV movie |
| 1996 | Lust and Revenge | George Oliphant | Feature film |
| 1996 | Shine | Sam | Feature film |
| 1996 | Cabbie of the Year | | Short film |
| 1995 | Singapore Sling: Old Flames | Sonny | |
| 1994 | Muriel's Wedding | Ken Blundell | Feature film |
| 1994 | Exile | Sacerdote | Feature film |
| 1994 | Bernie's Magic Moment | Bernie | Short film |
| 1993 | Touch Me | Claude | Short film |
| 1992 | Alex | Mr. Jack | Film |
| 1992 | The Nun and the Bandit | Michael Stanley | Film |
| 1992 | The Last Man Hanged | Sheriff | TV movie |
| 1991 | A Woman's Tale | Jonathan | Feature film |
| 1991 | Sweet Talker | Gerald Bostock | Feature film |
| 1990 | Quigley Down Under | Major Ashley-Pitt | Feature film |
| 1990 | Aya | Mac | Feature film |
| 1990 | Golden Braid | Bernard | Feature film |
| 1990 | Call Me Mr. Brown | Peter Macari | Feature film |
| 1990 | Plead Guilty, Get a Bond | | Short film |
| 1989 | Island | Janis | Feature film |
| 1988 | Emerald City | Mike McCord | Feature film |
| 1988 | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Arno | Feature film |
| 1988 | Manifesto | Wango | Feature film |
| 1988 | Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train | Stationmaster | Feature film |
| 1988 | A Day and a Half | | Short film |
| 1988 | The First Kangaroos | James Giltinan | Feature film |
| 1987 | The Tale of Ruby Rose | Henry Rose | Feature film |
| 1987 | Don Quixote of La Mancha | Voice | Animated TV movie |
| 1987 | The Bit Part | Michael Thornton | Feature fun |
| 1986 | Call Me Mr. Brown | | Feature film |
| 1986 | Dogs in Space | Man | Feature film |
| 1986 | Malcolm | Willy | Feature film |
| 1986 | King Solomon's Mines | Voice | Animated TV movie |
| 1986 | Double Sculls | Paul Weber | Feature film |
| 1985 | Burke & Wills | Tom McDonagh | Feature film |
| 1985 | Wills & Burke | Constable | Spoof film |
| 1985 | A Street to Die | Col Turner | Feature film |
| 1985 | The Coca-Cola Kid | Kim | Feature film |
| 1984 | Strikebound | Wattie Doig | Feature film |
| 1984 | Razorback | Benny Baker | Feature film |
| 1984 | The Great Gold Swindle | Peter Duvnjak | Feature film |
| 1983 | The Return of Captain Invincible | Maitre D' | Feature film |
| 1983 | Man of Flowers | David | Feature film |
| 1982 | Lonely Hearts | Detective | Feature film |
| 1982 | The Clinic | Dr. Eric Linden | Feature film |
| 1982 | Running on Empty | Fotógrafo | Feature film |
| 1982 | The Man from Snowy River | Curly | Feature film |
| 1982 | Heatwave | Peter Houseman | Feature film |
| 1982 | Attack Force Z | "Sparrer" Bird | Feature film |
| 1982 | With Prejudice | Rogerson | Feature film |
| 1982 | Freedom | Phil | Feature film |
| 1981 | Wrong Side of the Road | Policeman | Feature film |
| 1981 | Maybe This Time | The Salesman | Feature film |
| 1980 | Breaker Morant' | Corporal Sharp | Feature film |
| 1980 | Dead Man's Float | Thug | Feature film |
| 1979 | Kostas | Martin | Feature film |
| 1978 | In Search of Anna | Jerry | Feature film |
| 1978 | Newsfront | Chris Hewitt | Feature film |
| 1978 | A Good Thing Going | Terry | TV movie |
| 1977 | Out of It | Warren | |
| 1976 | Deathcheaters | Carnicero | Feature film |
| 1976 | The Trespassers | Sandy | Feature film |
| 1975 | Ivanhoe | Voice | Animated TV movie |
| 1975 | The Removalists | Rob | Feature film |
| 1975 | The Great Macarthy | Warburton | Feature film |
| 1974 | The Cars That Ate Paris | Darryl | Feature film |
| 1974 | Essington | Squires | TV movie |
| 1972 | The Money Game | The Worker (voice) | TV movie |

### As crew

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2015 | Force of Destiny | Art Director |
| 2015 | The Crater | Casting Director |
| 2001 | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Assistant to the Director & Manager |
| 1991 | The Media Project | Producer |
| 1989 | Island | Assistant to the Light Technician |
| 1986 | Malcolm | Manager |
| 1976 | Alvin Purple | Writer (episode "Ciao Alvin") |

## Theatre

| Year | Play | Character | Director | Theatre | Notes |
| 2014 | Bingo UNIT | The Judge | John Baylis | Chifley Theatre SA, Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre SA | - |
| 2010 | Hippolytos Raised | - | - | Roundhouse Theatre | with Travis Ash, Stephanie Bennett, Charlotte Green & Pierce Wilcox |
| 2010 | Quack | Dr Littlewood | Chris Mead | Griffin Theatre Company at Stables Theatre | with Jeanette Cronin, Charlie Garber & Aimee Horne |
| 2008 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | Gale Edwards | MTC at Victorian Arts Centre | with Martin Henderson, Gary Files, Essie Davis & Rebekah Stone |
| 2004 | Victory: Choices in Reaction | Mobberley | Judy Davis | STC | with Peter Carroll, Judy Davis, Marta Dusseldorp & Colin Friels |
| 2000 | A Cheery Soul | - | Neil Armfield | Company B and STC at Drama Theatre | with Vanessa Downing, Rohan Nichol, Robyn Nevin & Geoff Morrell |
| 1997 | Black Mary | Fred Britten | Angela Chaplin | Company 8 at Wilson Street | with Lillian Crombie, Jerome Ehlers, Margaret Harvey & Irma Woods |
| 1993–1994 | The Rise and Fall of Little Voice | Ray Say | Wayne Harrison | Playhouse, The Wharf Theatre | with Magda Szubanski, Angela Toohey & Felix Williamson |
| 1993 | Summer of the Aliens | Eric / Mr Ervin | Angela Chaplin | STC at Wharf Theatre | with Toni Collette, Penny Cook & Damon Herriman |
| 1980 | She'll Be Right | - | Chris Haywood | Parramatta Correctional Centre | with Laurence Bettarel |
| 1978 | Smiles and Piles | - | Ken Boucher | Kirribilli Pub Theatre | with Sean Scully, Julie McGregor, Mary Lou Stewart & Peter Corbett |
| 1977 | Going Home | Jim | Richard Wherrett | Nimrod | with Gary Day, James Elliott, Nancye Hayes & Catherine Wilkin |
| 1977 | Yamashita | - | - | The Playhouse | - |
| 1976 | The Recruiting Officer | - | Kenneth Horler | Nimrod | with Carol Burns, Peter Carroll, Max Cullen, Lynette Curran, John Gaden, Ivar Kants, Barry Otto, & Chris Haywood |
| 1975 | The Ride Across Lake Constance | - | Richard Wherrett | - | with Christine Amor, Peter Carroll & Kate Fitzpatrick |
| 1975 | Ginge's Last Stand | Tiger Brown | Kenneth Horler | Nimrod | with Peter Carroll, Bill Charlton, Kate Fitzpatrick & Robyn Nevin |
| 1974 | My Foot, My Tutor | Warden / Ward | Richard Wherrett | Nimrod | with Peter Carroll |
| 1974 | Well Hung | - | Kenneth Horler | Nimrod | with Peter Carroll, Peter Corbett & Tony Llewellyn-Jones |
| 1974 | Kookaburra | Steve | Richard Wherrett | Russell Street Theatre | with Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Robyn Nevin & Tony Llewellyn-Jones |
| 1973 | Kookaburra | Steve | Simon Hopkinson | Nimrod | with Jenny Brown, Peg Christensen & Lloyd Cunnington |
| 1973 | Who? | - | - | The Vic Theatre, The Pram Factory | with Bill Garner & John Smythe |
| 1973 | Jumpers | Jumper | Peter James | Russell Street Theatre | with David Clendinning, Peter Flett, Jonathan Hardy & John Wood |
| 1973 | Kaspar | Prompter | Richard Wherrett | Nimrod | with Lex Marinos, Berys Marsh, Philip Sayer & Andrew Sharp |
| 1973 | The Dumb Waiter | Alex | Charles Kemp | The Pram Factory | with Max Gillies |
| 1973 | The Tooth of Crime | Crow | John Bell | Nimrod | with Michael Caton, Tony Llewellyn-Jones & Anna Volska |
| 1971, 1972 | The Removalists | - | John Bell | Playbox Theatre | with Martin Harris, Sandra MacGregor, Jacki Weaver & Janie Stewart |
| 1972 | On Yer Marx: Housey | - | Aarne Neeme | Nimrod | with Diane Craig, Max Cullen, Nick Enright, John Wood, Chris Haywood, Denny Lawrence, Lex Marinos, Carole Skinner, Terry Bader, Barry Lovett |
| 1972 | On Yer Marx: Bigotry V.C. | Super Groover | Aarne Neeme | Nimrod | with Diane Craig, Max Cullen, Nick Enright, John Wood, Chris Haywood, Denny Lawrence, Lex Marinos, Carole Skinner, Terry Bader, Barry Lovett |
| 1972 | The Legend of King O'Malley | Andrew Fisher / The Revivalist / Politician | Richard Wherrett | Hunter Theatre, Old Tote Theatre, Richbrooke Theatre, Downstage Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Civic Theatre Fiji | with Elaine Cusick, Angus McLean & Jacki Weaver |
| - | Rushamon | Bandit | - | St Martin's Theatre | - |
| - | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Bottom | - | Independent Theatre | - |
| - | The Government Inspector | Lexia | - | Old Tote Theatre Company | - |
| - | The Dutch Courtesan | Halifernes Reinesaire | - | Old Tote Theatre Company | - |
| - | Arturo AI | Fish | - | Old Tote Theatre Company | - |
| - | The Man of Mode | John Trat | - | Old Tote Theatre Company | - |
| - | Julius Caesar | Titinius | - | Barn Theatre, Loughton | - |
| - | Dandy Dick | French Waiter | - | Barn Theatre, Loughton | - |
| - | The Enemy | Paul | - | Barn Theatre, Loughton | - |