Max Phipps
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Max Phipps was an Australian actor, known for a number of roles in theatre, films and television during the 1960s until the end of the 1990s.
His most notable screen roles included The Toadie in Mad Max 2 (1981), Prime Minister Gough Whitlam
in the television mini-series The Dismissal
(1983), and Queensland
Police Commissioner Terry Lewis in the Four Corners TV documentary drama Police State (1989), which helped to bring about investigations into corruption within that state's police force and political system.
He died from cancer in Sydney in the year 2000.
His most notable screen roles included The Toadie in Mad Max 2 (1981), Prime Minister Gough Whitlam
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...
in the television mini-series The Dismissal
The Dismissal (TV miniseries)
The Dismissal is an Australian television miniseries, first screened in 1983, that dramatised the events of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis....
(1983), and Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
Police Commissioner Terry Lewis in the Four Corners TV documentary drama Police State (1989), which helped to bring about investigations into corruption within that state's police force and political system.
He died from cancer in Sydney in the year 2000.