John Unicomb(1928-2012)
- Actor
After success in Sydney as a young Hamlet, and including featuring in the film directed by Charles Chauvel, "Sons of Matthew," he moved to England where he appeared in rep before moving to London for TV and the Old Vic., returning to Australia in the 1960s with fellow actor Fernande Glynne,(stage name) whom he married whilst in England. Unhappy with the state of theatre in Australia, he started the Australian Theatre for Young People with Alastair Duncan and Eleanor Whitcombe, and then moved to Tasmania to create the Tasmanian theatre company with the aim of employing Australian actors to perform Australian plays in repertory. He married Tasmania born actor Gillian Hunter . When support for the arts was withdrawn, due to changes at the federal level, he turned the TTC into an entrepreneurial venture, and later combined this with managing the Theatre Royal in Hobart. He had three sons, Michael, David and James
