Leslie Calmond Dayman^[1] (19 January 1933 – 20 October 2023^[1]), credited variously as Les Dayman, was an Australian actor with a career spanning over 50 years, he was best known for his performances on television (serials and telemovies) and film, major small screen roles including Homicide, Prisoner, Sons and Daughters and E Street.

Early lIfe

Dayman was born in Footscray, Victoria, Australia on 19 January 1933.^[1] He was the son of Australian Rules footballer Les "Bro" Dayman who played in both the South Australian Football League and Victorian Football League for the Port Adelaide Football Club and Footscray Football Club

Early Career

Dayman started his career in theatre in 1955 and thereafter worked as an actor, director and narrator.^[2]

Television roles

Dayman started his career in theatre in 1955, but was best known as a staple of the small screen in numerous serial roles, his television career began in 1964 in a TV film, and he appeared in the police procedural crime series Homicide as senior detective Bill Hudson in 104 episodes from 1966 to 1968.

In the 1980s, he was a regular cast member in three major Australian soap operas, all of which had international success: in Grundy Television's Sons and Daughters, he played Roger Carlyle, a ruthless shady businessman in episodes broadcast in 1984 and 1985; also in 1985, he starred in Prisoner, another Grundy production, as Geoff MacRae, one of three male prisoners in a 6-month story arc, and in E Street, he played Senior Sergeant George Sullivan for the series entire run from 1989 to 1993. opposite co-star Cecily Polson who played his wife Martha O'Dare.

Personal life and death

Dayman had two sons with Diane Chamberlain Dayman (also an actor and member of the South Australian Theatre Company): Nicholas Andrew and Timothy Paul. He also had two granddaughters and a grandson. Dayman was married to his wife Rosie Dayman from 1989.

Leslie Dayman died on 20 October 2023.^[3]

Filmography

References

External links

• Leslie Dayman at IMDb