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Reg Quartly
Reginald Francis Quartly AM (19 March 1912 – 26 April 1983) was an English born Australian comedian who was well-known to Australian audiences for his work on stage, screen, radio and television over a period of "more than 50 years".
Quartly was born in England on 19 March 1912. His parents were Percival Francis and Lydia Elizabeth Quartly. The family emigrated to New Zealand when Reg was aged 10 years old.
He became a professional entertainer and made his first appearance in amateur trials at the Prince Edward Theatre, Auckland at the age of 11, singing "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", and won the competition prize of 10 shillings. He then appeared for ten weeks in the theatre as a child performer and then made a "successful tour" of New Zealand for two years.
When Quartly was around the age of 16 he moved to Sydney and joined the "big touring musical shows of Sir Benjamin Fuller". He appeared at Fuller's Tivoli Theatre, which was Sydney's top variety theater of the period, and at the Empire Theatre in Haymarket, where in 1928 he appeared in the play Top Hole alongside the vaudevillian Fred Bluett.
In the same year he appeared in the silent film Trooper O'Brien, a melodrama set during the Ned Kelly period. Quartly's role was Moori, an aboriginal child. He then appeared in The Cheaters, a 1930 silent feature film directed by Paulette McDonagh which was later adapted into a partial talkie.
In 1933 Quartly appeared as a comedian in a series of plays at the Tivoli Theatre in Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales: Walter George's Sunshine Players, Keep Smilin, Leave It At That and Step Lively.
During the Second World War he, along with Tom Newbury and Bob Dyer, entertained Australian, New Zealand and American troops in the war zones of the South Pacific.
During the 1950s he appeared as an actor in musical theatre and pageants of "dance and song" staged in several major Sydney theatres, including Love's a Luxury (1951) and Dick Whittington and His Cat (1951) at the Palace Theatre, and Cinderella (1957), where his role was the Baroness de Bluffe, at the Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown.
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Reg Quartly
Reginald Francis Quartly AM (19 March 1912 – 26 April 1983) was an English born Australian comedian who was well-known to Australian audiences for his work on stage, screen, radio and television over a period of "more than 50 years".
Quartly was born in England on 19 March 1912. His parents were Percival Francis and Lydia Elizabeth Quartly. The family emigrated to New Zealand when Reg was aged 10 years old.
He became a professional entertainer and made his first appearance in amateur trials at the Prince Edward Theatre, Auckland at the age of 11, singing "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", and won the competition prize of 10 shillings. He then appeared for ten weeks in the theatre as a child performer and then made a "successful tour" of New Zealand for two years.
When Quartly was around the age of 16 he moved to Sydney and joined the "big touring musical shows of Sir Benjamin Fuller". He appeared at Fuller's Tivoli Theatre, which was Sydney's top variety theater of the period, and at the Empire Theatre in Haymarket, where in 1928 he appeared in the play Top Hole alongside the vaudevillian Fred Bluett.
In the same year he appeared in the silent film Trooper O'Brien, a melodrama set during the Ned Kelly period. Quartly's role was Moori, an aboriginal child. He then appeared in The Cheaters, a 1930 silent feature film directed by Paulette McDonagh which was later adapted into a partial talkie.
In 1933 Quartly appeared as a comedian in a series of plays at the Tivoli Theatre in Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales: Walter George's Sunshine Players, Keep Smilin, Leave It At That and Step Lively.
During the Second World War he, along with Tom Newbury and Bob Dyer, entertained Australian, New Zealand and American troops in the war zones of the South Pacific.
During the 1950s he appeared as an actor in musical theatre and pageants of "dance and song" staged in several major Sydney theatres, including Love's a Luxury (1951) and Dick Whittington and His Cat (1951) at the Palace Theatre, and Cinderella (1957), where his role was the Baroness de Bluffe, at the Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown.