Michael Pate(1920-2008)
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
The future movie bad man was born in Drummoyne, a suburb of Sydney,
Australia, and got his career start as an interviewer on the
government's radio station. Pate also worked on the Australian stage
and in Down Under movies before relocating to the U.S. in the early
1950s to appear in Universal's "Thunder on the Hill, " the film version
of a Charlotte Hastings play ("Bonaventure") in which he had appeared.
Pate acted in many American films and TV series, then returned to
Australia in the late '60s and worked (again) in that country's film
industry; he co-starred in his own Aussie TV series, "Matlock Police".
Pate also began working behind the camera; one of his best-known
writing-producing-directing credits is "Tim", the story of the
relationship between an older woman (Piper Laurie) and a mentally challenged young
man (Mel Gibson).
