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- Bob Francis was born on 11 March 1939 in Cairo, Egypt. He was married to Anna Von Berg. He died on 12 November 2016 in North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
- Russell Stewart Starke was born in Solomontown, South Australia and passed away on 8 February 2022 in North Adelaide, South Australia.
In the 1970's, NWS-9 in Adelaide, South Australia screened Friday Suspense Theatre from around 1975 and Friday Night Thriller from around 1977-1978.
Both shows were hosted by Russell Starke (as himself).
Starke is a veteran South Australian actor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2006 for "service to the visual arts through promoting the work of emerging artists".
In 2015 he was critically acclaimed for his role in "Quartet" and in June 2016 he starred as "Big Daddy" in "A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
Russell Starke was a prominent media personality, art critic, actor, and gallery owner of Adelaide Arts scene for decades. - Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, was born on 28 January 1892 in North Adelaide, second and only surviving son of South Australian-born parents Henry Archibald Price, banker and businessman, and his wife Elizabeth Jane, née Harris.
In May 1941 Price won a by-election for the seat of Boothby in the Australian House of Representatives and held the seat until the 1943 election.
Chairman (1953-71) of the advisory board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund, he anticipated in 1956 the implementation of the public lending rights scheme for authors. As chairman (1960-71) of the council of the National Library of Australia, he had the honour in 1970 of showing the new library building to Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1973 became an honorary member of the American Geographical Society.
Survived by his wife, and their daughter and two sons, he died on 20 July 1977 in North Adelaide and was cremated.