Esme Melville

sEsme Melville (1918 - 14 September 2006) was an Australian actress. Her television credits of the 1970s included various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4", "Matlock Police" and "Bluey". Other appearances included guest roles in Crawford's adventure series "Ryan" (1973), and in miniseries "Power without Glory" (1976).

Later television appearances include "Sons and Daughters" (1982), "Special Squad" (1984), "The Flying Doctors" (1986), "Phoenix" (1992), "Round the Twist" (1993), "Wedlocked" (1994), "The Damnation of Harvey McHugh" (1994), "The Man from Snowy River" (1994), "Mercury" (1996) , "Driven Crazy" (1998), "Eugenie Sandler P.I." (2000), "SeaChange" (2000), "Stingers" (2000), "The Secret Life of Us" (2001), miniseries "Bootleg" (2002), miniseries "After the Deluge" (2003), "Real Stories" (2006).

She also made frequent appearances in televisions series "Prisoner", "Blue Heelers", and "Neighbours", where she played several different characters over several years. In "Neighbours" her most recent role was of the hard-of-hearing Rose Belker.

Theatre roles include Serita in "Waiting in the Wings", Mrs Grey in "The Secretary Bird" and Mrs. Bedwin in "Oliver".

Melville also acted in several feature films including "Alvin Purple Rides Again" (1974), "Dimboola" (1979), "I Can Jump Puddles" (1981) (TV), "Squizzy Taylor" (1982), "Annie's Coming Out" (1984), "Niel Lynne" (1985), "The Four Minute Mile" (1988) (TV), "Mull" (1989), "Spotswood" (1992), "Say a Little Prayer" (1993), "The Heartbreak Kid" (1993), "Dead End" (1999), "Siam Sunset" (1999), "A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow" (2000), "Dalkeith" (2001), "Crackerjack" (2002), "Forbidden" (2003), "Romulus, My Father" (2007).

On 29 September 2006 the Herald Sun newspaper reported the Melville had died on 14 September 2006 after "a short illness".

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