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Shane Porteous
Shane Porteous
Born	John Shane Porteous; 17 August 1942 (age 82); Coleraine, Victoria, Australia
Education	University of Queensland
Occupations	Actor; screenwriter; animation layout artist; voice artist;
Years active	1962–present
Known for	A Country Practice as Dr. Terence Elliot
Notable work	Screenwriter for Neighbours and Home and Away;

John Shane Porteous (born 17 August 1942)^[1] (known as Shane Porteous) is an Australian actor, screenwriter, animation layout artist and animation voice artist. As a screenwriter, he is sometimes credited as John Hanlon.

He remains best known for his role as in the TV serial A Country Practice, as Dr. Terence Elliot and original character and his ongoing role in TV series Pizza from 2000 until 2007. He has done numerous animation layouts and provided voice roles for feature film and shorts.

Biography

Early life and education

Shane Porteous was born John Shane Porteous in Coleraine, Victoria on 17 August 1942,^[1] to pilot Stanley Porteous and his wife Pat.^[2]

He was raised in Queensland and attended the University of Queensland, graduating with a B.A.^[1] He was a member of the UQ Dramatic Society and performed with actors such as Jack Thompson and Michael Caton at the Avalon Theatre in 1965.^[3]

Porteous moved to Sydney in 1967.^{[citation needed]}

Acting and screenwriting

Porteous is best known the television drama series A Country Practice as Dr. Elliot during its twelve-year run on the Seven Network (1981–93), a role for which he won the Silver Logie award in 1992. He has also won AWGIE Awards for his various scriptwriting projects. In the series he had various romances including Matron Curtis (Helen Scott), Dr. Alex Fraser (Diane Smith) and Rosemary Prior (Maureen Edwards) who he married in the final episode.^{[citation needed]}

Other TV credits include What For Marianne?, Catch Kandy, Homicide, Matlock Police, Certain Women (1973-76), The Box (1974), Number 96 (1977), Glenview High, Cop Shop, The Restless Years, Neighbours, Home and Away, Blue Heelers and Heartbreak High.^[4]

Porteous has performed in many stage plays,^[5] among them Hamlet, Death of a Salesman (1970), the Sydney Theatre Company's production of King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing. In June 2010 he completed a touring performance of Codgers with Ron Haddrick among others.^[6]

He was a regular at the Q Theatre in Penrith, New South Wales, and was also the ambassador for "The Q",^{[clarification needed]} which was demolished in August 2005 and moved to the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre.^[7]

As a television screenwriter he has written scripts for series including Neighbours and Home and Away, sometimes under the pseudonym of John Hanlon.^{[citation needed]}

Animation

Porteous has also provided animation services to Hanna-Barbera, and has created layouts for the film versions of The Magic Pudding and Blinky Bill.^[which?]^{[citation needed]}

Shane was the voice of Sid the Seagull in the Cancer Council Victoria's Anti Skin Cancer advertising campaign "Slip Slop Slap".

Popular culture

He is referenced in the popular Australian song "I'm So Post Modern" by the Bedroom Philosopher.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Association	Honour	Year	Awarded for
Australian Government	Centenary Medal	2001	Contribution to Scriptwriting and the Performing Arts
Logie Awards	Silver Logie for Best Actor	1992	A Country Practice as Dr. Terence Elliot ^[8]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Type
1971	What For Marianne?	Jon Wright	TV movie
1973	The Taming of the Shrew	Tranio	TV movie
1978	Puzzle	Rant	TV movie
1979	The Little Convict	Jack Doolen (voice)	Animated film
1979	From the Earth to the Moon	Voice artist	Animated TV movie
1982	A Dangerous Summer	Sgt. Goodwin	Feature film
1982	Sarah and the Squirrel	Voice	Animated film
2003	Fat Pizza	Doctor	Feature film
2007	The Uncertainty Principle	Thomas	Short film
2011	Codgers	Rod Dean	Feature film
2024	Munro		TV miniseries

Television

Year	Title	Role	Type
1967–68	Awful Movies with Deadly Earnest	Deadly Earnest	TV series
1968	Contrabandits	Jock	TV series
1971	Dynasty	Ken	TV series
1972	Quartet		TV miniseries
1973	Ryan	John Morris	TV series
1973	Catch Kandy	Christian Faber	TV series
1972–73	Homicide	John Ellis, George Bailey	TV series
1973	Serpent in the Rainbow	Phillip Lovett	TV miniseries
1974	The Box	David Warner	TV series
1975	Scobie Malone	Constable Clements	TV series
1975	Matlock Police	Martin Phillips, Jamie, Pasquali, Jeff Forrest	TV series
1975	Kings Man	Constable Ben Price	TV series
1976	Certain Women	Peter Clayton	TV series
1972–77	Number 96	Joshua	TV series, 17 episodes
1978	Bobby Dazzler	Sergio	TV series
1978	Glenview High	Dr. Green	TV series
1977–78	Cop Shop	Ron Keating, Jason Knight	TV series
1979	Chopper Squad	Duffy	TV series
1979	The Restless Years	Andrew Nelson	TV series
1979	Off on a Comet	Voice	TV series
1980	Skyways	John Dormany	TV series
1981	Bellamy	Walt	TV series
1981–93	A Country Practice	Dr. Terence Elliot	TV series
1995	Neighbours	Patrick Kratz	TV series
1997	Heartbreak High	Jumpin Jack Jet	TV series
2001	Wicked!	Voice	TV series
2005	Blue Heelers	John Maguire	TV series
2007	Constructing Australia	JD Fitzgerald	TV documentary
2000–07	Pizza	Doctor/Registrar	TV series
2001–11	Home and Away	Jim Tyler, Douglass Graham	TV series
2019	Smoke Between Trees

Theatre

Year	Title	Type
	Hamlet
1962	Fairy Tales of New York	The Old Dolphin Theatre
1969	The Proposal	AMP Theatrette
1969	Little Murder	University of NSW
1969	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Theatre Royal, Hobart
1970	Sganarelle	New South Wales
1970	Death of a Salesman	University of NSW
1970	Major Barbara	University of NSW, Canberra Theatre
1970	King Oedipus	Canberra Theatre, University of NSW
1970	Dick Whittington	University of NSW
1971	Hank's Night	AMP Theatrette
1971	The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail	Ensemble Theatre
1971	Home Free!	AMP Theatrette
1973-74	What If You Died Tomorrow?	Comedy Theatre London, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Canberra Theatre, Sydney Opera House
1977	Dr. Brain's Body	University of NSW, Parade Theatre
1977-78	Sleuth	New South Wales & Mildura Arts Centre
1978	Bedroom Farce	Her Majesty's Theatre, Theatre Royal
1995	King Lear	Sydney Theatre Company at Orange Civic Theatre, Q Theatre Penrith, Wharf 2 Theatre Sydney
1995	Scenes from a Separation	Fairfax Studio
1997	The Memory of Water	Marian Street Theatre
2001-02	Much Ado About Nothing	Sydney Theatre Company at Southern Cross University, Christ Church Cathedral, Q Theatre Penrith
2010	Codgers	Australian tour

Scriptwriter

Year	Production	Episodes
1994–2013	Neighbours (TV series)	Wrote 171 episodes (credited as pen name John Hanlon)
2003–08	Home and Away (TV series)	Wrote 47 episodes (as John Hanlon)
1999	All Saints (TV series)	Wrote 1 episode, "Dependence Day" (as Shane Porteous)

Animation

Year	Production	Role
1977	Mody-Dick (TV movie)	Layout artist
1978–1981	The All New Popeye Hour (TV series)	Layout artist
1981	Dinky Dog (TV series)	Layout artist, credited on 16 episodes
1979	Casper the Friendly Ghost - He Ain't Scary, He's Our Brother (TV movie)	Layout artist (as Shane Porteous)
1979	Casper's First Christmas (TV short)	Layout artist (as Shane Porteous)
1979	Off on a Comet (TV movie)	Layout artist
1979	From the Earth to the Moon (TV movie)	Layout artist
1980	Drak Pack (TV series)	Layout artist
1981	The Kwinky Koala Show (TV series)	Layout artist, 1 episode
1981	The Flintstones - Wind Up Wilma (short)	Layout artist
1981	Laverne and Shirley in the Army	Layout artist
1981	Daniel Boone	Layout artist
1981	The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang	Layout artist
1995	Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion	Layout artist
2001	The Magic Pudding	Layout artist

Appearances

Year	Production
1990	32nd Annual Logie Awards
2017	The Schlocky Horror Picture Show
2015–19	The Professor's Scary Movie
Various	The Macqurie Bank (TV commercials as voice over)