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Arthur Frame AM enjoyed a fifty-year career in the Arts in Australia working in radio, television and extensively in the theatre as an actor, director, artistic director, playwright, executive production manager, theatre manager, chief executive officer, administrator and board director.
During his professional career he worked for the Macquarie Broadcasting Network in North Queensland and the radio drama department at the ABC, the Channel Nine Network (as Humphrey B. Bear), The National Theatre Company at The Playhouse in Perth Western Australia, Queensland Theatre Company, Queensland Arts Council, Arts Queensland and co-created his own entrepreneurial company Frame and Kennett Promotions (which founded
Brisbane’s Gallery Theatre). He was also Assistant Director of London’s Royal
Court Theatre.
Throughout this Golden Age of the Arts in Australia he played many pivotal roles in the entertainment industry, being acknowledged by the Australian Government in 2008 with his appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia. Arthur has an abiding interest in the preservation of Australia’s built, cultural and natural environment and for more than a decade served at a local, state and federal level, on various boards of the National Trust of Australia.
Married since 1979 with one daughter and two grandsons, he enjoys the performing and visual arts, antiques and fine arts, reading, writing and garden wrangling.
