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Reg Lye
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Reginald Thomas Lye (14 October 1912 – 23 March 1988), 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, (also starring in television, such as Mrs Thursday and The Wednesday Play), but returned to Australia when the film industry revived in the 1970s. He won the Australian Film Institute award for the his role in the 1975 film, Sunday Too Far Away, opposite Jack Thompson.
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Molly
Freedom
The Killing of Angel Street
Tarka the Otter
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Wombling Free
Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
Sunday Too Far Away
The Games
The Lost Continent
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Fathom
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Another Day, Another Dollar
The Wrong Arm of the Law
The Ambitious One
The Stowaway
Walk Into Paradise
The Shiralee
Three in One
Smiley
King of the Coral Sea
