John Bernard Derum was born on 9 January 1946 and is an Australian stage, film and television actor.
17 Facts About John Derum
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John Derum has an artistic administrator and directed and produced for theatre companies throughout Australia and for television.
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John Bernard Derum was born in St Vincent's Maternity Hospital in East Melbourne on 9 January 1946.
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John Derum appeared in a number of comedy and revue series including The Thursday Creek Mob, The True Blue Show, Doctor Down Under as "Doctor Maurice Griffin", and Ratbags.
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John Derum appeared in the final edition of The Mavis Bramston Show in 1975.
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John Derum lent his voice to the ABC children's animated television series The Adventures of Sam.
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John Derum performed More Than A Sentimental Bloke, his tribute to Dennis, more than 500 times around Australia between 1979 and 1994.
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John Derum has recorded and performed The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and the Dennis masterpiece The Glugs of Gosh.
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John Derum was twice held offices for Actors Equity and founded an actors support group called "Actor's Forum".
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John Derum first appeared in theatre the same year he made his TV debut in 1963 in a production of at Wal Cherry's Emerald Hill Theatre and was cast in the George Whaley production Billy Liar, and within six months was working as a alongside Googie Withers and Keith Mitchell in a nationwide Shakespeare tour called "The First Four Hundred Years".
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John Derum was artistic director of the Canberra Theatre Company in 1985 and 1986.
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John Derum was awarded a Literary Fellowship by the Australian Defence Force Academy, which enabled an expanded script of "More Than A Sentimental Bloke".
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John Derum served as Manager of the Independent Theatre, from 1996 and 1999, overseeing the restoration and re-opening of the historical theatre.
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John Derum played Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan and Aiden Turner and David Marsh in David Hare's The Power of Yes in 2010.
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John Derum was elected to Blue Mountains City Council from 1995 to 1999 and worked as a political adviser between 2001 and 2007.
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John Derum was appointed to the Theatre Committee of the NSW Government Arts Advisory Board, and worked on the staff of the NSW Minister for the Environment and Attorney-General and as electorate advisor for three members of parliament.
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John Derum was made a Member of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2019, "for significant service to the performing arts as an actor, director and administrator, and to the community".