Edmund Patrick Twohill (22 October 1915 – 7 October 1989) was a New Zealand actor and radio announcer who worked extensively in Australian film, radio and theatre, often under the name John Sherwood.
Twohill went to England aged 21 and was cast in second lead in a boxing film with John Mills called Only Pain is Real. It was cancelled due to the war and he returned hom.[1]
He is best known for his role in the classic war film in Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940). After this he took the name John Sherwood.[2] He said he did this to avoid confusion.[3]
Twohill had a long association with radio station 2SM as an announcer.[4]
Personal life
editHe was married to Thora Lumsdaine, a radio actor and the only child of songwriter and radio star, Jack Lumsdaine.[5] They had five children together.[6]
Filmography
edit- The Avenger (1937)
- Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)
As John Sherwood
edit- The Rats of Tobruk (1944)
- The Adventures of Long John Silver (1955) - recurring role
- G'day Digger! (1958)
- Bungala Boys (1961)
- The Drifting Avenger (1968)
Radio
edit- The Irwin Family (1941)
References
edit- ^ "John Sherwood T.V. star". Daily Mirror. No. 4196. New South Wales, Australia. 17 November 1954. p. 40 (Cable Edition 2). Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (7 December 1940), "Almost in Confidence", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720917353, retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Trove
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (16 November 1940), "NOM-DE-RADIO?", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720752081, retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Trove
- ^ ""No Greater Love."". The Catholic Press. No. 2090. New South Wales, Australia. 10 April 1941. p. 27. Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ 'BRIDE'S FATHER OFFICIATED. Married at St. John's', The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 27 January 1940 p 11
- ^ Thora Twohill obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, June 1, 2011
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