George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1954) is an Australian actor,
presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greek
descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his
mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap
opera Neighbours, playing family patriarch Benito Alessi, along with
Prisoner and Bellbird star and soap veteran Elspeth Ballantyne as his
wife Cathy Alessi, two son's Felice Arena And Dan Falzon, the Alessi
family of Italian descent were added to the series in mid=1992, as a
new family, joining already cast cousins the Blakeney sisters.Spartels
was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure
on the ABC's Play School, over 14 years between 1985 and 1999. Other
role's include Cop Shop in 1978, Prisoner in 1979, Punishment in 1981,
the Bluestone Boys and Blackfinger in the movie Mad Max: Beyond
Thunderdome in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.Spartels was
previously married to Sue Spartels, followed by actress Elizabeth
Alexander, and is now married, as of April 2013, to Mary Spartels and
resides in Sydney, Australia. He has guest starred in many other
Australian television series from the 1970s to the present and has
appeared in a number of episodes of the medical drama series All
Saints and serial Packed to the Rafters as Carbo's father. He is now
touring[when?] in Canada, LA and Australia in "The Last Confession"
alongside David Suchet.
presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greek
descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his
mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap
opera Neighbours, playing family patriarch Benito Alessi, along with
Prisoner and Bellbird star and soap veteran Elspeth Ballantyne as his
wife Cathy Alessi, two son's Felice Arena And Dan Falzon, the Alessi
family of Italian descent were added to the series in mid=1992, as a
new family, joining already cast cousins the Blakeney sisters.Spartels
was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure
on the ABC's Play School, over 14 years between 1985 and 1999. Other
role's include Cop Shop in 1978, Prisoner in 1979, Punishment in 1981,
the Bluestone Boys and Blackfinger in the movie Mad Max: Beyond
Thunderdome in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.Spartels was
previously married to Sue Spartels, followed by actress Elizabeth
Alexander, and is now married, as of April 2013, to Mary Spartels and
resides in Sydney, Australia. He has guest starred in many other
Australian television series from the 1970s to the present and has
appeared in a number of episodes of the medical drama series All
Saints and serial Packed to the Rafters as Carbo's father. He is now
touring[when?] in Canada, LA and Australia in "The Last Confession"
alongside David Suchet.
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