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.^[1]

Hargreaves was educated at Marist College Kogarah.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^{[4] [5]}

Hargreaves contracted HIV about 1994 and died of AIDS-related complications in a hospice in Sydney on 8 January 1996.^[4] Pallbearers at Hargreaves' funeral included actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown.

• Without a Clue (1988) – runner

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

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• John Hargreaves at Rotten Tomatoes
• John Hargreaves at IMDb
• John Hargreaves at the National Film and Sound Archive
• John Hargreaves: Tribute to an Aussie cinema pioneer and legend http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/john-hargreaves-tribute-to-an-aussie-cinema-pioneer-and-legend/

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