# Ron Graham (actor)

Ronald Graham (born Lionel Alfred Hosmer, 17 December 1926 – 2 April 2020) was a British-Australian character actor who appeared in many theatre and television roles from 1956 until retiring in 2003. He is best known for his roles in telemovies and guest roles in serials including many shows made by Crawford Productions and roles in popular serials Certain Women, A Country Practice and Home and Away. He was a regular in the short lived police-oriented soap opera Waterloo Station (1983) and featured in the film Gallipoli.

## Personal life

Ron Graham was born Lionel Alfred Hosmer, the second son of 3 boys to William Alfred Hosmer (1896-1953) and Doris Agatha (nee Green) (1897-1978) in Aldershot, UK. In 1928, the family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lionel joined the British Army and in July 1948, his parents and two brothers emigrated to Australia from the United Kingdom. Lionel demobbed from the Army in 1949 and then migrated to Australia, settling in Perth. He changed his name by deed poll to Ron Graham.
He first married in the early 1960s to Judith Schonell, a dancer with the West Australian State Ballet. Their son Marcus Graham is a well-known Australian stage, television and film actor and director. Ron later partnered with Aleda Klara Johnsen.
He died in Windsor, New South Wales on 2 April 2020 at the age of 93.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1961 | The Merchant of Venice | Basanio | TV movie |
| 1969 | The Intruders | Peter Yordan | Film |
| 1970 | The Curious Female | Doorman | |
| 1981 | Gallipoli | Wallace Hamilton | Feature film |
| 1982 | Fluteman | Frank Timms | Feature film |
| 1984 | Silver City | Director | Feature film |
| 1986 | Whose Baby | Jack Galbsally | TV movie |
| 1996 | Acri | Norris | |
| 1998 | 13 Gantry Row | Loan's Manager | TV movie |
| 1999 | Time and Tide | Harry | TV movie |
| 2000 | Portrait of a Suspect | American Police Detective | TV movie |
| 2003 | BlackJack Murder Archive | Brian Kirsten | TV movie |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1961 | Whiplash | Alfred | TV series |
| 1967 | Contrabandits | Detective Sergeant Thomson | TV series |
| 1967 | Love and War | | TV miniseries, episode: War 3: Sergeant Musgrave's Dance |
| 1969 | Riptide | Chris Bolan | TV series |
| 1971 | Mrs. Finnegan | Joe Fagan | TV series |
| 1969–71 | Dynasty | John Mason | TV series |
| 1972 | Boney | Mike Taylor | TV series |
| 1972 | The Spoiler | Dave Sharpe | TV series |
| 1971–72 | Spyforce | Ron (pilot) (uncredited) | TV series |
| 1973 | A Taste for Blue Ribbons | | TV series |
| 1973 | Ryan | Sergeant Nelson | TV series |
| 1971–73 | Matlock Police | 4 roles: -Brian Woods -Ron Grey -Sam Winter -Leo "Bullfrog" Bennett | TV series |
| 1968–73 | Homicide | 5 roles: -Allan Farrow -Sgt. Ron Lane -Don Carlisle -David Warner -Bill Young | TV series |
| 1969–74 | Division 4 | 4 roles: -Chris Granger -Len Abbott -John Moore -Laurie Cornell | TV series |
| 1973–76 | Certain Women | Alan Stone | TV series |
| 1978 | Young Ramsay | Bruce Watt | TV series |
| 1977–78 | Glenview High | Frank Faulkner | TV series |
| 1978 | Cass | | TV series |
| 1978 | Cop Shop | 2 roles -Ralph Curran -Peter Curran | TV series |
| 1979 | Ride on Stranger | Darcey Jones | TV series |
| 1981 | Kingswood Country | Mr. GMH | TV series |
| 1981 | Bellamy | Trotter | TV series |
| 1981 | Sporting Chance | | TV series |
| 1982 | 1915 | Army Sergeant | TV miniseries |
| 1982 | M.P.S.I.B | Max Birch | TV series |
| 1983 | Waterloo Station | DS Jack Edwards | TV series |
| 1983 | Silent Reach | Father Vakldera | TV miniseries |
| 1985 | Winners | Abattoir Manager | TV series |
| 1986 | Alice to Nowhere | Denzil Leary | TV miniseries |
| 1988 | Rafferty's Rules | Frank White | TV series |
| 1989 | Mission: Impossible | Challis | TV series |
| 1981–92 | A Country Practice | 5 roles: -Andy McKay -Harry Martin -Bill Jones -Tom Spencer -Bill Morrison | TV series |
| 1994 | Time Trax | Casey | TV series |
| 1994 | Heartbreak High | Detective Monaghan | TV series |
| 1995 | Blue Murder | Senior Officer | TV miniseries |
| 1991–96 | G.P. | 2 roles: -Angus Sutton (1991) -Jim Stewart (1996) | TV series |
| 1997 | Home and Away | Murray Watson | TV series |
| 1997 | Big Sky | Tom | TV series |
| 2001 | Outriders | Mr. Murray | TV series |
| 2003 | Snobs | Mr. Ford | TV series |