Neil Melville is an Australian actor. He was born in Sydney, but spent most of his childhood in Apollo Bay, Victoria

Apollo Bay, Victoria

Apollo Bay is a coastal town in southwestern Victoria, Australia. It is situated on the eastern side of Cape Otway, along the edge of the Barham River and on the Great Ocean Road, in the Colac Otway Shire. The town has a population of 1380....

.

Melville graduated from Adelaide's Flinders University

Flinders University

Flinders University, , is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century.The university has established a reputation as a leading research...

 with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama, and performed in a number of university productions, including, most notably, the world premiere of Jack Hibberd

Jack Hibberd

Dr Jack Hibberd is an Australian playwright.-Biography:Hibberd studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Newman College and practised as a clinical immunologist in Melbourne from 1964 until 1973...

's The Les Darcy Show (1974).

After graduating from university, Melville spent a year writing and performing for children with the Little Patch Theatre. While with this group, he wrote the vaudeville-documentary, Australian Born, Australian Bred. He has worked extensively as a character actor, appearing in numerous Australian theatre, film and television productions.

Melville has served as actor and director-in-residence at the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

 and worked as Executive Producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 on ex-wife Debra Byrne's

Debra Byrne

-Career:Byrne made her television debut on Brian and the Juniors, an early predecessor of Young Talent Time, which was hosted by a young Brian Naylor. She stayed with the show for 12 months. In 1971 she was cast as one of the original six Young Talent Time cast members...

 album, Heaven Down Here.

Melville is now married to Bo, and lives in Apollo Bay.

Partial theatre productions

• The Fantastics
• Othello
• Coriolanus
• Macbeth
• The Naked Vicar Show
• Evita
• Oklahoma
• On Our Selection
• This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
• The Magic Guritar
• The Les Darcy Show
• Blue Window
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
• The Life of Galileo
• The Ramayana
• Les Misérables
• Odysey of a Prostitute

Partial television credits

• The Fast Lane
• The Flying Doctors
  The Flying Doctors
  The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia....
  
  
• The Henderson Kids
  The Henderson Kids
  The Henderson Kids was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series....
  
  
• Correlli
  Correlli
  Correlli was an Australian television series first broadcast by ABC TV in 1995. It starred Deborra-Lee Furness as prison psychologist Louisa Correlli. The series also featured her future husband Hugh Jackman in one of his earliest roles. The first episode entitled "The Rat Tamer" has been released...
  
  
• Alice to Nowhere
• Dusty
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (TV series)
  Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993....
  
  
• Rafferty's Rules
  Rafferty's Rules
  Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.The producers of the series were Posie Graeme-Evans , and Denis Phelen. The directors were Graham Thorburn, Mike Smith and Russell Webb...
  
  
• Prisoner
  Prisoner (TV series)
  Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
  
  
• A Country Practice
  A Country Practice
  A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
  
  
• Embassy
• Snowy
• The Man from Snowy River
  The Man From Snowy River (TV series)
  The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in the United States as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.The television...
  
  
• Ocean Girl
  Ocean Girl
  Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character...
  
  
• Blue Heelers
  Blue Heelers
  Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
  
  
• McLeod's Daughters
  McLeod's Daughters
  McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...
  
  
• The Secret Life of Us
  The Secret Life of Us
  The Secret Life of Us was a television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star Entertainment and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK...
  
  
• The Saddle Club
  The Saddle Club
  The Saddle Club is a children's television series based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant and is an Australia/Canada co-production. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training to compete in equestrian competitions at the fictional...
  
  
• Something in the Air
• Law of the Land
  Law of the Land
  Law of the Land was an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series was set in the fictional country town of Merringanee and centered on the unique way that locals dealt with and enforced the law....
  
  
• Stingers
  Stingers
  Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...
  
  
• Carson's Law
  Carson's Law
  Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1983 and 1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson...
  
  

Filmography

• Brilliant Lies
• Bushfire Moon,
• Feathers
  Feathers (film)
  Feathers is a 1987 Australian drama film directed by John Ruane. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* James Laurie - James* Neil Melville - Bert* Rebecca Gilling - Fran* Julie Forsyth - Olla* John Flaus - Doug...
  
  
• In Pursuit of Honor
• Miracle Down Under
• Good Vibrations
• The Feds: Terror
• Halifax f.p: Playing God
• Halifax f.p: Isn't It Romantic