Talking Prisoner EP 25 Interview with Alan Hopgood (Wally Wallace)

Welcome to Episode 25 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down and spoke with Actor, Author, Producer, Writer and leading playwright Alan Hopgood who played Wally Wallace on Prisoner. We spoke in great length to Alan about his life growing up, how he got into acting from a very young age and about his time at the University of Melbourne and his first television play The Sound of Thunder. Alan spoke to us about his time on Bellbird in which he appeared in 872 episodes as Dr Reed and told us lots of behind the scenes information about Bellbird. Alan is a leading playwright and wrote a play called “And the Big Men Fly” which also starred Elspeth Ballantyne and was able to give us all the behind the scenes about this successful play. We spoke in great length about a movie Alan wrote called Alvin Purple which was a box office smash hit back in 1973 and where he got the idea to write it. We spoke in length about Alans time on Prisoner playing Wally Wallace and working alongside Betty Bobbitt and Gerda Nicholson and how he got the part of Wally and what he thought about his character Wally. Alan spoke to us about his time on Neighbours playing Lassiters Hotel owner Jack Lassiter and working alongside Stefan Dennis (Paul Robinson) We also spoke to Alan about him receiving an order of Australia for his services to the performing arts and raising awareness in Men’s health through his book and plays. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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