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Jeff Kevin
Australian retired actor (born 1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jeff Kevin (born 1945)[1] also known as Jeffrey Kevin, is an Australian actor, theatre director, choreographer, writer and former drama lecturer[2] best known for his role in the television soap opera Number 96, from 1972 to 1977 as Arnold Feather for 338 episodes.
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His character was involved in some of the more-remarkable story lines in the program, including his marriage to Patti Olsen and her subsequent death at the hands of the "Pantyhose Strangler". He also fell in love with Robyn Ross, who he did not realise was transgender. That broke new ground for a TV serial, in that Ross was played by cabaret artist Carlotta, who was the first transgender actress to portray a transgender character anywhere in the world.[1][2]
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Career
Kevin was born in 1945 and started his performance career in theatre in the late 1960s and by the early 1970s, started appearing in several television guest appearances, including roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide and Division 4, and in police dramas The Long Arm and The Link Men.
In 1972, Kevin was cast in the comedic role of 19-year-old, unlucky-in-love Arnold Feather in the soap opera Number 96, although Kevin was 27 at the time.[1] The role was created by series screenwriter Johnny Whyte. Feather continued in the role from mid-1972 until the series ended in August 1977. He also appeared in the series' 1974 spin-off film, Number 96. During 1977, Arnold's character was briefly phased out and replaced by his twin brother, Charles "Chook" Feather, also played by Kevin.
In the late 1970s, he acted in the serial The Sullivans and made an appearance in Skyways. In 1988, he briefly acted in the soap opera Home and Away as Catholic priest Father Rawlings.
In 2003, Kevin became a drama lecturer at Wollongong University he since retired, but as of 2021 and 2025 still works as an actor and director in occasionally local theatre.[2]
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Personal life
Kevin married English-born Australian actress and model, Suzanne Church (born (9 October 1951),[1] in August 1977. She had also appeared in Number 96, as Jane Chester.
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source: AusStage database
| Production | Writer/Company | Year | Shows | Production Status | Type | Reference |
| Two Programs of Short Plays | Writer-Michael Thomas/ NIDA production company | 1966 (September) | 1 | non-world premiere/Australian English | spoken word/one act | EI = 153773 |
| Point of Departure | Jean Anouilh / NIDA | 1967 | 1 | non-world premiere | spoken word//historical | EI |
| Three Men on a Horse | George Abbott/John Cecil Holm | 1967 | 1 | non-world premiere (US English) (Broadway original) | spoken word/comedy farce | |
| The Winter's Tale | Shakespeare | 1967 (July) | 1 | non-world premiere (British English) | spoken word/romantic/tragi-comedy | 3661 |
| The Rise and Fall of Boronia Aveunue | Tony Morphett | 1969 | 1 | Australian premiere production | spoken word/Australian National Identity | |
| Rooted | Alexander Buzo/NIDA production | 1969 | 1 | Australian premiere production | spoken word/Australian National Identity | |
| The Legend of King O'Malley | Michael Boddy | 1971 | 1 | non-world premiere/tour production | Musical theatre (Historical/Musical/Musical Biography) | |
| Edward John Eyre/The Soldiers Tale | 1971 featuring New Sydney Woodwind Quintet and Sinfonia of Sydney) | 1 | World premiere | Operetta/Musical Theatre | EI= 154327 | |
| King Edward (note; Kevin serves here as stage director) | William Leonard Marshall | 1971 | 1 | Australian premiere production | spoken word /one man show Gordon Chater | 248205 |
| Truth | David Young | 1971 | 1 | Australian premiere production | spoken word/historical | |
| Childhead's Doll | Willy Young | 1971 | 1 | Australian premiere production | Musical | |
| Small Craft Warnings | Tennessee Williams/Independent Theatre | 1974 | 1 | non-world premiere | spoken word/drama | |
| Star Turns | 1978 | 1 | Musical production | |||
| Bedroom Farce | Alan Ayckbourne | 1980 | 9 shows (tour) | National tour (English Australia) | spoken word | |
| Same Time, Next Year (play) | Bernard Slade | 1986 | 1 | non-world premiere | spoken word | |
| Trumpets and Raspberries | Dario Fo | 1987 | 1 | non-world premiere (original text Italian) | Comedy/Satire | |
| Juno and the Paycock | Sean O'Casey | 1988 | 1 | Professional, (non world premiere) Irish | Comedy/Tragedy | EI 74287 |
| Mother Courage | Bertolt Brecht | 1989 | 1 | non-world premiere (German) | Theatre (spoken word) | ET 1829 |
| Hating Alison Ashley (novel) | Richard Tullock | 1989 | 1 | non-world premiere | spoken word/Youth theatre | |
| The Christian Brothers | Ron Blair' | 1991 | 2 | non-world premiere | theatre - spoken word | |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 1991 | spoken word | EI 15845 | ||
| The Tragedy of Richard III | Shakespeare | 1992 | 3 shows | Theatre (spoken word) | ||
| Twelfth Night | Shakespeare | 1993 | Theatre (spoken word (English Australian)) | 145252 | ||
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1993 | 2 shows (return season) | Theatre (spoken word (English Australian) | ||
| The Time is Not Yet Ripe | Louis Esson | 1996 | non-world premiere | Theatre (spoken word) | ||
| Hamlet | Shakespeare | 2002 | 4 shows | Theatre/drama (spoken. word) | EI 19224 | |
| Kangaroo | Adaptation of D.H.Lawrence novel | 2003 | 1 | World premiere | Theatre (spoken word) | |
| The Stranger | Agatha Christie | 2021 | 1 | World premiere | theatre (spoken word) | |
| The Last Resort | 2023 | 1 | Theatre (spoken word/Comedy/drama | |||
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | 2023 | 1 | Theatre (spokon word) |
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