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Thomas William Hunt
(ca. 1867-1934)
Margaret Ann Carnes
(1874-1962)
Desmond Eric Hunt
(1896-1967)
Alice Bunter
(1898-1976)

Beryl Hunt
(1929-2021)

 

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Beryl Hunt

  • Born: 2 Oct 1929, Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia
  • Died: 23 May 2021, Gold Coast, , Queensland, Australia at age 91

bullet   Another name for Beryl was Lorrae Desmond.

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Source: Wikipedia

"Lorrae Desmond AM, MBE (born 2 October 1929) born as Beryl Hunt and also credited as Sheila Hunt,[4] is an Australian retired Gold Logie-award-winning singer, recording artist, character radio ad television presenter, actress and playwright with a career that spanned over 55 years both locally and the United Kingdom.

She started her career in England, in the vein of entertainer Cicely Courtneidge. Lorrae, having arrived in the country carved out a career as a variety performer, as a singer and radio/television presenter, primarily at the BBC, where she had her own shows during the years of World War II,

Returning to Australia she became a popular presenter and remains best known to early local television audiences as hostess of the self-titled musical variety program The Lorrae Desmond Show from 1960 until 1964,. She was subsequently asked to tour Vietnam with the Entertainment Unit during the Vietnam conflict, where she became known for her live singing performances, billed as a forces sweetheart, she in the style of Vera Lynn and Anne Shelton, in which she was honoured with the MBE for services to entertainment.

She started taking roles in local soap operas and serials starting from the late 1960s, including a guest role in Crawford Productions staple series Homicide, and a guest role in Number 96, after which she was given a more permanent role in the ill-fated series Arcade in 1980,

However she became famous for her long-running role as Shirley Gilroy (nee Dean, formerly Jacobson), an original character in the television series A Country Practice, appearing in 816 episodes from 1981 to 1992

She briefly guested in Home and Away as Isobel Dupre in 1997, as the mother of Donald Fisher (Norman Coburn).

She has worked as a theatre lyricist, writing the play Honey in 2001, based on the novel Smoky Joe's Cafe by the author Bryce Courtenay.

Desmond was born on 2 October 1929, in the Southern Highlands town of Mittagong, New South Wales, to Alice and Des Hunt. She left Mittagong after the fire season, and briefly lived on an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. By the age of 10, she had travelled to Britain with her family."


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