Robert Baxter
Acting
Biography
Robert Baxter is an Australian actor. Baxter was first seen onscreen in the 1977 movie The F.J. Holden. He played a policeman, a role he was to reprise many times during his career. Between 1979-1983 he played Petty Officer 'Swain' Reynolds on the TV series Patrol Boat. Throughout the 1980s he had guest roles in shows such as Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, Rafferty's Rules and A Country Practice. In the 1990s he popped up in Police Rescue, All Saints and Joh's Jury. In 2010-2011 he worked as a voiceover artist on the computer games Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record.
Known For
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
Home and Away
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
Police Rescue
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
Rafferty's Rules
The Private War of Lucinda Smith is a 1990 Australian mini series about an Australian chorus girl living in London.
The Private War of Lucinda Smith
Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.
The Night, the Prowler
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Joh's Jury
The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.