George Mallaby(1939-2004)
- Actor
- Writer
Best known in Australia as Detective Peter Barnes (1967-73) in the long
running police drama Homicide (1964). He later appeared in Cop Shop (1977) and began to make a name for himself in local and international movies before
suffering the first of the strokes that would eventually kill him in
the mid-1980s. He was confined to a wheelchair for the last four years
of his life. He and his wife Lenice Reed were married for 28 years,
having met on the set of Homicide.
running police drama Homicide (1964). He later appeared in Cop Shop (1977) and began to make a name for himself in local and international movies before
suffering the first of the strokes that would eventually kill him in
the mid-1980s. He was confined to a wheelchair for the last four years
of his life. He and his wife Lenice Reed were married for 28 years,
having met on the set of Homicide.