Max Rowley
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Max Rowley is a successful Australia
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personality and radio broadcaster. He is currently the principal of his own radio and media training academy, The Max Rowley Media and Drama Academy.
. He was also trained at the Kennerdale Radio Acting School which he eventually took over as principal. He studied Shakespeare with Broadway's classical actor Lawrence H. Cecil who was the first actor/director to present Shakespeare on radio in the United States in the 1930s.
s, working consistently with Grace Gibson, Artransa, 2UE, 2GB, 2UW, AWA and all A.B.C. radio units. Rowley appeared in classic serials such as Portia Faces Life, Dr Paul, etc.
Rowley was one of the very few announcers to commence in Sydney without previous country experience. Throughout the 1960s and into the '70s he was heard on 2CH. He was also promotional voice on the John Laws
Show and was a talk back personality at 2KY in the early 1990s.
Rowley commenced his television announcing career on Channel 7 Sydney with no previous experience as a television announcer. Over 40 years of Media involvement Max Rowley was both promotional Voice-over, presentation Announcer, On-Camera News reader and "Voice of the Seven Revolution" from the sixties through to the Seventies. He moved from Channel 9 to work as Promotions voice-over Announcer for 5 years from 1975 to 1980. Then to the 10 Network in the same capacity. Rowley has appeared on over 48,000 radio and television promotions and commercials.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Mass media
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personality and radio broadcaster. He is currently the principal of his own radio and media training academy, The Max Rowley Media and Drama Academy.
Early career
Rowley started acting in his teens and spent many years in the Professional Workshops at the Independent TheatreIndependent Theatre
The Independent Theatre was a dramatic society founded in 1930 by Doris Fitton , and was also the name given to the building it occupied from 1938. It was named for London's Independent Theatre Society founded by J. T...
. He was also trained at the Kennerdale Radio Acting School which he eventually took over as principal. He studied Shakespeare with Broadway's classical actor Lawrence H. Cecil who was the first actor/director to present Shakespeare on radio in the United States in the 1930s.
Radio drama
He got his professional radio start during the closing years of broadcasting's "Golden Age" of radio dramaRadio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
s, working consistently with Grace Gibson, Artransa, 2UE, 2GB, 2UW, AWA and all A.B.C. radio units. Rowley appeared in classic serials such as Portia Faces Life, Dr Paul, etc.
Rowley was one of the very few announcers to commence in Sydney without previous country experience. Throughout the 1960s and into the '70s he was heard on 2CH. He was also promotional voice on the John Laws
John Laws
Richard John Sinclair "John" Laws, CBE , an Australian radio presenter, sometimes known as Lawsie, was from the 1970s until his retirement in 2007, the host of a hugely successful morning radio program, which mixed music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback...
Show and was a talk back personality at 2KY in the early 1990s.
Television
As a television and film actor, Rowley appeared in on A.B.C. in the early 1960s including "Come in Spinner", "Dismissal", "Harp in the South", "Dad and Dave", "Sons and Daughters", etc.Rowley commenced his television announcing career on Channel 7 Sydney with no previous experience as a television announcer. Over 40 years of Media involvement Max Rowley was both promotional Voice-over, presentation Announcer, On-Camera News reader and "Voice of the Seven Revolution" from the sixties through to the Seventies. He moved from Channel 9 to work as Promotions voice-over Announcer for 5 years from 1975 to 1980. Then to the 10 Network in the same capacity. Rowley has appeared on over 48,000 radio and television promotions and commercials.