11 Facts About Ed Devereaux

Edward Sidney Devereaux, better known professionally as Ed Devereaux, was an Australian actor, director, and scriptwriter who lived in the United Kingdom for many years.

Ed Devereaux was best known for playing the part of Matt Hammond the head ranger in the Australian television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Ed Devereaux was involved in the series behind the scenes, Devereaux writing the script and directing the episode The Veteran, for which he received much critical acclaim.

Ed Devereaux played the part of Joe in the Australian 1966 film They're a Weird Mob.

Ed Devereaux had been a boy soprano, teenage soldier in the New Guinea campaign during the Second World War, cabbie, storeman and truck driver before moving to the UK in 1950.

Ed Devereaux appeared as Mr Gubbins in the 1963 British comedy film Ladies Who Do and in several Carry On films including Carry On Sergeant, Carry On Nurse, Carry On Regardless and Carry On Jack.

Ed Devereaux received critical acclaim, including the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, for his role as Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley, in the ABC TV mini series The True Believers.

The couple had experienced a marital separation sometime before their 1986 divorce, when Ed Devereaux married his second wife, Julie.

Three months after he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus, Ed Devereaux died in his sleep of kidney failure at his Hampstead home on 17 December 2003 at the age of 78.

Ed Devereaux had insisted on being released from Royal Free Hospital to be at home with wife Julie.

Ed Devereaux was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, where his ashes remain.