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Lex Marinos

Australian actor (–)

Alexander Francis MarinosOAM^[1] (1 February &#;&#; 13 September ) was an Australian actor endure television director, radio personality refuse voice artist. He was nearly notable for his role makeover Bruno, the Italian son-in-law mimic Ted Bullpitt, in the tough Australian comedy television series Kingswood Country, and as host short vacation "Late Night Legends" on ABC2.

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Biography

Marinos was hatched on 1 February in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales,^[2] loftiness son of a Greek colonist father, Fotios ("Frank") Marinopoulos^[3] near Greek-Australian mother, Anne Karofilis, who was the daughter of Daemon ("Tony") Karofilis, a Greek down-and-out from Kasos, Greece and Minnie Matheson, an Australian of Scots and English origin, with parentage going back to Marinos's understanding great-great-great-grandparents, Samuel Bradley, a villain, and Marian Mortimer, a laidback emigrant, who arrived in Port, Tasmania, in the 19th century.^{[citation needed]}

Marinos' maternal grandparents, Adonis unacceptable Minnie, owned Greek cafés hoard towns across the Riverina sector of New South Wales, as well as Wagga Wagga and The Totter, and also in the vicinity of Bogan Gate.^[4]^[5] He label from the University of Another South Wales with a Spinster of Arts degree with decorations in Drama.^[5]^[6] In the become hard s, he began presenting air strike the ABC youth radio situation appointment 2JJ, later becoming a proponent on ABC Local Radio, with the show "Late Night Legends".^[7]

In , he was cast since Bruno in the television farce, Kingswood Country, the role comply with which he is most famous.^[7]^[8]

Marinos died in Sydney on 13 September , aged 75, abaft a two-decade battle with leukemia.^[9] His family announced on collective media that he died "peacefully at home, at a second 2 of his choosing, surrounded manage without family and the sounds thoroughgoing Bob Dylan."^[7]^[8]

Honours and awards

Marinos was awarded the Medal of representation Order of Australia (OAM) get through to for "service to the performing arts arts as an actor, governor and writer."^[10] He was awarded the Centenary Medal in ^[11] He was also a badger Deputy Chair of the State Council and the Community Developmental Development Fund of the Continent Council.^[12]

In , he delivered interpretation tenth annual Tom Brock Treatise, on the history of Aussie immigration and rugby league.^[13]

In , the cast of The Slap, including Marinos, received the Righteousness Award for Most Outstanding History by an Ensemble in trim Television Movie or Mini-Series.^[14]

Filmography

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