George Mallaby(1939-2004)
- Actor
- Writer
Best known in Australia as Detective Peter Barnes (1967-73) in the long
running police drama Homicide (1964). He later appeared in Cop Shop (1977) and began to make a name for himself in local and international movies before
suffering the first of the strokes that would eventually kill him in
the mid-1980s. He was confined to a wheelchair for the last four years
of his life. He and his wife Lenice Reed were married for 28 years,
having met on the set of Homicide.
