Reg Lye

Reg Lye (14 October 1912 – 23 March 1988), Reginald Thomas Lye, was an Australian actor who worked extensively in Australia and England. He was one of the busiest Australian actors of the 1950s, appearing in the majority of locally shot features at the time, as well as on stage and radio. Lee Robinson called him "one of the best character actors in Australia." He moved to England in the early 1960s but returned to Australia when the film industry revived in the 1970s. He won the Australian Film Institute award for the 1975 production Sunday Too Far Away, opposite Jack Thompson

Selected credits

• Busman's Holiday (1948)
• Man of Destiny (1952)
• The Shop at Sly Corner (1953)
• King of the Coral Sea (1954)
• The Proposal by Anton Chekhov (1954)
• Smiley (1956)
• Walk Into Paradise (1956)
• Three in One (1957)
• The Shiralee (1957)
• The Stowaway (1958)
• Smiley Gets a Gun (1958)
• Dust in the Sun (1958)
• The Restless and the Damned (1959)
• The Dock Brief by John Mortimer (1960)
• The One Day of the Year by Alan Seymour (1961)
• The Amorous Prawn (1962) – film
• Reunion Day by Peter Yeldham (1962)
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
• The Counterfeit Constable (1964)
• Stell by Peter Yeldham (1964)
• King Rat (1965)
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• Danger Route (1967)
• Fathom (1967)
• A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967)
• Doctor Who (1968) – British TV
• The Lost Continent (1968)
• Battle of Britain (1969) - Workman (uncredited)
• The Games (1970)
• Performance (1970) - Betting Shop Worker
• 10 Rillington Place (1971) - Tramp
• Burke & Hare (1972) - Old Joe
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)
• Dracula (1973)
• Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
• Quiller (1975)
• Wombling Free (1977)
• Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
• A Man Called Intrepid (1979)
• Tarka the Otter (1979)
• The Killing of Angel Street (1981)

External links

• Reg Lye at the Internet Movie Database
• Reg Lye at National Film and Sound Archive