Ray Meagher – Home and Away's Alf – might have spent 35 years on the popular Aussie series, but his off-screen life has sometimes seemed to be just like a soap storyline
When Home and Away was launched as a rival soap to high-flying Neighbours back in 1988, nobody could have predicted how it would make huge household names of many of its characters from those early years.
But while many of Summer Bay's residents have since departed or even died – sometimes in real life too, as with tragic Dieter Brummer who played Shane – Alf, along with Marilyn, is still around today, some 35 years later. Ray, who celebrated his 79th birthday in July this year, started his career in Australian film and TV in the 1970s, first hosting a late night folk music programme, Around Folk.
When quizzed on the secret of his success by Australia's 7 News, he self-deprecatingly said: “Oh, look, I think it’s all accidental. I fell into this profession because I wasn’t qualified to do anything else and along the way it’s just been a bit of common sense, really. He's also appeared in more than 17 Christmas pantomimes in the UK, including Aladdin in 2008 and Peter Pan in 2009.
He continued: "His biggest failing is probably when he was younger, he’d fly off the handle, sometimes without all the facts, and when it was pointed out to him, he’d eventually say sorry, but the apology was very short. If you went to make a cup of tea or had a toilet break, you might miss the Alf Stewart apology!"
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