# John Bonney (actor)

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Australian actor

John Bonney Born (1933-11-15)15 November 1933 England Died June 1993(1993-06-00) (aged 59) Occupation Actor Years active 1950s-1993 Notable work Contrabandits

**John Bonney** (15 November 1933 - June 1993)[1] was an [Australian](/source/Australia) actor. He played lead roles in *[Contrabandits](/source/Contrabandits)*[2] and *[Waterloo Station](/source/Waterloo_Station_(TV_series))*[3] and was a host of *[The Marriage Game](/source/The_Newlywed_Game#International_versions)*.[4]

Bonney was born in England[5] and moved to Australia at age 17 where he started acting classes and worked in radio plays. He returned to England and continued studying acting working on TV and at West End. Film roles during this time include *[Paranoiac](/source/Paranoiac_(film))*, *[The Yellow Teddy Bears](/source/The_Yellow_Teddy_Bears)*, *[Saturday Night Out](/source/Saturday_Night_Out)* and *[633 Squadron](/source/633_Squadron)*. Returning to Australia in 1966 he landed a role in *Contrabandits*.[6] He quit acting in 1973 before returning in 1981 as a guest star on an episode of *[MPSIB](/source/MPSIB)*.[7] 1983 saw him in *Waterloo Station*[8] and in 1988 appeared as [Robert Menzies](/source/Robert_Menzies) in *[True Believers](/source/True_Believers_(miniseries))*.[9]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** "From Blunt to the bard", *The Sydney Morning Herald*, 2 July 1993

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Musgrove, Nan (10 July 1968), ["John Bonney's wedding. Just about everybody was there"](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46075992), *The Australian Women's Weekly*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Robinson, Harry (29 January 1983), "The great three-cornered soap contest at 7.30: everybody can't win", *The Sydney Morning Herald*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Musgrove, Nan (4 October 1967), ["This school "flicks" child's imagination"](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46075992), *The Australian Women's Weekly*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["The Marriage Game"](https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/99988-marriage-game), *The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia*, 23 June 1988

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Shelley_6-0)** Shelley, Garry (31 May 1971), "John Bonney remembers some advice", *The Sydney Morning Herald*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Lee Lewes, Jacqueline (29 November 1981), "Contrabandits star to make TV comeback", *The Sydney Morning Herald*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Reines, Rosalind (31 January 1983), "After Liz is mowed down...", *The Sydney Morning Herald*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Weiniger, Peter (23 June 1988), "Reliving politics' decade of drama", *The Age*

## External links

- [John Bonney](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095027/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Biographical cuttings on John Bonney, former actor and writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals](https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/282092) at The National Library of Australia

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