# John Hargreaves (actor)

John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.

## Background

Hargreaves was educated at Marist College Kogarah. He taught in Mendooran, New South Wales, but moved to Sydney in the 1960s. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1970.
Hargreaves was mainly a film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions. Hargreaves had roles in The Removalists, Don's Party, The Odd Angry Shot, and Malcolm. He played the love interest of Nicole Kidman's character in Emerald City.
In 1994 he became the first actor to receive the Byron Kennedy Award.

## Personal life and death

Although he had exclusively heterosexual relationships while young, by the early 1980s Hargreaves acknowledged and embraced his homosexuality. Between 1984 and 1988, he partnered with French actor Vincent Perrot.
Hargreaves contracted HIV about 1994 and died of AIDS-related complications in a hospice in Sydney on 8 January 1996. Pallbearers at Hargreaves's funeral included actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1966 | They're a Weird Mob | Youth reading paper at train station (uncredited) | Feature film |
| 1974 | Essington | | TV movie |
| 1975 | Last Rites | Bennett | TV movie |
| 1975 | Sunday Too Far Away | Uncredited | Feature film |
| 1975 | The Removalists | Constable Neville Ross | Feature film |
| 1976 | Mad Dog Morgan | Baylis | Feature film |
| 1976 | Don's Party | Don Henderson | Feature film |
| 1976 | Death Cheaters | Steve Hall | Feature film |
| 1978 | A Good Thing Going | Phil Harris | TV movie Logie Award for Best Actor in a miniseries/telemovie |
| 1978 | Long Weekend | Peter | Feature film Nominated – Sitges Film Festival award for Best Actor |
| 1978 | Little Boy Lost | Jacko Walls | Feature film |
| 1979 | The Odd Angry Shot | Bung | Feature film |
| 1979 | Banana Bender | Tom Hardy | TV movie |
| 1981 | The Killing of Angel Street | Elliott | Feature film |
| 1981 | Hoodwink | Martin Stang | Feature film Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1982 | Beyond Reasonable Doubt | Arthur Allan Thomas | Feature film |
| 1983 | Careful, He Might Hear You | Logan | Feature film Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 1984 | The Great Gold Swindle | Ray Mickelberg | TV movie |
| 1984 | My First Wife | John | Feature film Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1986 | Double Sculls | Sam Larkin | Feature film |
| 1986 | Comrades | Convict | Animated film |
| 1986 | Sky Pirates | Lt. Harris | Feature film |
| 1986 | Malcolm | Frank Baker | Feature film Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 1987 | The Place at the Coast | Neil McAdam | Feature film |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom | Bruce Haigh | Feature film (based on Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh) |
| 1988 | Boundaries of the Heart | Andy Ford | Feature film |
| 1988 | Emerald City | Colin Rogers | Feature film Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1990 | Sweet Revenge | Jim Harris | Feature film |
| 1993 | Blackfellas | Detective Maxwell | Feature film |
| 1994 | No Worries | Clive Ryan | Film |
| 1994 | Country Life | Jack Dickens | Film Byron Kennedy Award Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1995 | Hotel Sorrento | Dick Bennett | Feature film |
| 1996 | Lust and Revenge | Gallery Sleaze | Feature film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1969 | Pastures of the Blue Crane | | TV series |
| 1972 | Over There | Robert Kirby | TV series |
| 1972 | Behind the Legend | Tom Roberts | TV series |
| 1972–74 | Matlock Police | Doug Thompson / Peter Smith / Roy Jones | TV series, 3 episodes: "Everybody Else Has Everything", "The Last Laugh", "A Weekends Entertainment" |
| 1973 | Division 4 | Jackson/John | TV series, 2 episodes: "Wasteground", "A Wild Wild Rose" |
| 1973 | Spyforce | Captain/Navigator | TV series, 2 episodes: "The Trail", "The Journey" |
| 1974 | And the Big Men Fly | Achilles Jones | TV series |
| 1974–76 | Homicide | Billy Day / David Taylor / Kevin Watson / Steve Brennan | TV series, 4 episodes: "Cowboy Billy Day", "You Hear about the Slasher", "The Egotist", "On The Run" |
| 1975 | Silent Number | Terry Lucas | TV series, 1 episode: "His Own Private War" |
| 1976 | Power Without Glory | Bill Evans | TV miniseries |
| 1976 | Bluey | Eric Yates | TV series, 1 episode: "One Man Band" |
| 1977–80 | Young Ramsay | Peter Ramsay | TV series |
| 1982 | Last Breakfast in Paradise | | |
| 1983 | Scales of Justice | Constable Borland | TV miniseries |
| 1983 | The Dismissal | Dr. Jim Cairns | TV miniseries |
| 1983 | Carson's Law | | TV series |
| 1988 | The Heroes | Ted Carse | TV miniseries |
| 1988 | Opération Mozart | Harrington | TV short |
| 1988 | The Alien Years | William | TV miniseries |
| 1991 | Marie Curie, une femme honourable | Rutherford | TV miniseries |
| 1992 | The Leaving of Liverpool | Harry | TV miniseries |
| 1992 | Rome Roméo | David Waldberg | |
| 1993 | G.P. | Dr. Oliver Loyd | TV series, 1 episode: "Infected" |
| 1995 | Blue Murder | Chester Porter QC | TV miniseries |

### Below the line credits

* Without a Clue (1988) – runner

### Other credits

* Second Best (1994)
* completion guarantee services (The Completion Bond Company Inc) Whore (1991)

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Location |
| 1967 | The Choephori (The Libation Bearers) | Chorus Member | UNSW |
| 1968 | Sam, The Highest Jumper of Them All, or the London Comedy | | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1968 | Postmark Zero | | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1968 | America Hurrah | | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1969 | The Night of the Iguana | Hank / Herr Fahrenkopf | NIDA Theatre |
| 1969 | In the Gloaming, Oh My Darling (student graduation play) | Mr. Birdsong | Jane Street Theatre |
| 1969 | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter | Jane Street Theatre |
| 1970 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | | Old Tote Theatre |
| 1970 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | | Old Tote Theatre |
| 1970 | Blood Wedding | | Old Tote Theatre |
| 1970 | Biggles | Biggles | Nimrod Street Theatre |
| 1971 | As You Like It | | Parade Theatre |
| 1971 | The Man of Mode | | Parade Theatre |
| 1971 | A Month in the Country | | Parade Theatre, Canberra Theatre |
| 1971 | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | | Parade Theatre, Canberra Theatre |
| 1971 | The National Health or Nurse Norton's Affair | | Parade Theatre |
| 1971 | Lasseter | | Parade Theatre with Old Tote Theatre |
| 1971 | The Au Pair Man | | Independent Theatre |
| 1972 | Jugglers Three | | Union Hall, Adelaide |
| 1973 | Crete and Sergeant Pepper | | Union Hall, Adelaide |
| 1973 | Measure for Measure | | Union Hall, Adelaide |
| 1975 | The Ride Across Lake Constance | | Nimrod Theatre |
| 1975 | The Importance of Being Earnest | | Sydney Opera House |
| 1977 | The Training Run | Constable Patrick Reilly | Bondi Pavilion |
| 1980 | The Sunny South | Matt Morley | Sydney Opera House |
| 1980 | Bent | Max | Playhouse Adelaide |
| 1981 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1983 | Present Laughter | | Theatre Royal, Sydney |
| 1990 | Love Letters | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III | Sydney Opera House |