About Senior Moments

His TV career was launched in 1976, playing “Sugar Renfrey” in the ABC TV Production of Power Without Glory, for which he won his first Logie as Best Supporting Actor. In the 1980’s he went on to star in the hit drama, Rafferty’s Rules as Magistrate “Michael Rafferty” which consolidated him as the well know and admired television actor he has become.

From 1994 and for the next 12 years, he played the role of “Tom Croydon” in Blue Heelers, one of Australia’s highest ever rating TV dramas. It culminated in John winning the prestigious Gold Logie in 2006, after 10 consecutive nominations as most popular person on Australian Television.

Subsequently, John has appeared in a number of shows including True Stories, It’s A Date, Paper Giants, Miss Fischer’s Murder Mysteries, Offspring and The Cut.

His more recent television role is as “Patrick Tyneman”, the baddie everybody loves to hate, in ABC’s The Doctor Blake Mysteries.

His stage career has included everything from Shakespeare to Williamson and a few Musicals in between, winning a number of Best Actor awards along the way. Highlights have included The Twelfth Night opposite Geoffrey Rush, directed by Neil Armfield and playing Jock in The Club for almost every state theatre company over 15 years. John has just concluded a national tour of Bakersfield Mist with his Blue Heelers castmate Julie Nihill.

We acknowledge the great loss of Mr Geoff Harvey who was Musical Director and pianist for Senior Moments from our first season in 2016 through all subsequent shows until his passing. His warmth, his sense of fun and his incredible musical talent were an integral part of our production from the very beginning and he is sorely missed by us all. Vale Geoff.

Geoff Harvey was the Music Director of Channel 9 for 38 years, composing many of the network’s theme songs and responsible for most of its live music on shows such as The Don Lane Show, the Midday Show and Bob Roger’s Tonight Show on TCN-9 which was his first job in 1961. He was then Musical Director for Dave Allen, and went on to work on most of Australia’s live entertainment shows, including Bandstand, The Sound of Music and The Don Lane Show. One of his most successful appointments was as the Musical Director of The Midday Show, a position he held for 22 years. While at Channel 9, he was also responsible for many of the networks theme songs, such as those for The Sullivans, A Current Affair, Today and Sunday. After The Midday Show he worked with orchestras across Australia and was the Musical Director of Carols by Candlelight on Christmas Eve in Melbourne for 19 years.

Emily’s TV credits include guest roles in the ABC shows It’s A Date (Season 2), The Dr Blake Mysteries and the comedy Get Krack!n. Film work includes the Live Action feature Risen, and many short films. Emily is the face of Coles – New Girl and is an established voiceover artist.