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Jonathan Sweet

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Jonathan Sweet is an Australian actor best known as a character actor and for his supporting roles.

Career

Sweet's early career break was in a 1969 episode of the Australian cult TV classic Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.[citation needed]

Sweet co-starred in the 1969 TV series Riptide,[citation needed] an Australian production starring the American actor Ty Hardin as Moss Andrews, the owner of a charter boat. Sweet played Neil Winton, a medical student who gets into trouble with some criminals and is helped out by Andrews. Winton is later given a job on the charter boat by Andrews.

Sweet was cast in the 1985 TV mini-series Anzacs,[citation needed] portraying Wallace, a former British soldier who had absconded from Afghanistan to Australia.

Sweet was also cast as Sergeant Thomas in the 1990 Tom Selleck movie Quigley Down Under.[citation needed]

Sweet has been cast as a supporting actor in a number of popular Australian TV series including the long-running soap operas Prisoner and A Country Practice.[citation needed]