What happened to Will Sterling?
William James Sterling
Sterling's dad died in WW2 in Crete when Will was 15 Read this piece here.
Brother Leon
(Possible mum was Rosetta - rmarried became Boye and brother Leon took name "Boyle"
https://www.newspapers.com/image/120745435/?match=1&terms=%22william%20james%20sterling%22%20
Dad seems to have been William Henry Boyle died 1941 El Alamein medical copr
https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=143807&c=WW2#R - died El Alamein
William James Boyle https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1097713&c=WW2 - he joined Navy 1943 served as cook on Playtpus left 1946
Leon Terence Boyle died 2015 - he was managed of Paddington Cinema Academy Twin and other theatres
Sterling in 1963 married Carole Jilli Ann Potter. (I heard he had an earlier marriage)
He went to the US to study in 1964. Worked at the CBC. Then went to Brtiain. Worked for the BBC until 1971.
He returned to Oz in 1972 to promote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. An article about making the film is here.
He criticised the Australian film industry for being too parochial. "We must forget our aggression and nationalism" he said.
In 1977 he was back trying to raise money for an Australian film. Again, he called for Australian films to be more international and criticised them for being "parochial". The film he was trying to get up was The Bird of Strange Plummage written by Michael Noonan about an Aboriginal girl and a white boy. (Sterling did Burst of Summer.)
Mum Rosetta died in 1990s
Leon died 2015 BOYLE, Leon Terence. 4 Aug. 1928 - 1 Mar. 2015. Beloved partner of Robert Everard Calder (deceased) and brother, uncle, friend and colleague. Member of the Society of Australian Cinema Pioneers.
https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/64145/leon-boyle/#!/create/skymorial
TV Credits
Brother was Leon
Close to dad who drove ambulance - dad enlisted, died in ship off Crete
Left school early worked chartered accountants office joined navy then went to Sydney Uni
Graduate Sydney Uni
1956 focus on drama
23 April 1957 The Wraith
19 June 1957 Ending It - Sydney
July 1957 Neil Hutchison discusses sending Sterling to Melbourne
21 Aug 1957 Rope - in Sydney
23 Oct 1957 Sound of Thunder
8 Jan 1958 - Gaslight in Melb
26 March 1958 The Small Victory
21 May 1958 Captain Cavallo
18 June 1958 The Rattenbury Case
23 July 1958 The Public Prosecutor
17 Aug 1958 Box for ONe
5 Oct 1958 THe Governness
16 Nov 1958 The Lark
10 Dec 1958 - Wild Life and Christmas Belles
18 Feb 1959 - Trip Tease and High C
4 March 1959 - The Solderi's Tale
21 May 1959 - A Dead Secret
15 July 1959 Black Limeligh
21 Oct 1959 Ned Kelly
16 Dec 1959 Treason
1960 - took leave of absence to make Return Journey
13 Jan 1960 - Heatr Attack
20 April 1960 - Mine Own Executioner
15 June 1960 - Shadow of Heroes
13 July 1960 Who Killed Kovali
7 Sept 1960 Macbeth
14 Dec 1960 - Two Headed Eagle
11 Jan 1961 Heda Gabler
22 March 1961 The End Begins - Sterling made it after return from overseas
3 May 1961 Night of the Ding Dong
12 July 1961 Call Mea liar
9 Aug 1961 Burst of Summer
4 Oct 1961 Lady from the Sea
29 Nov 1961 The Big Deal
21 Dec 1961 Ides of March
21 Feb 1962 Devil Makes Sunday
18 April 1962 House of Mancello
16 May 1962 Hobby Horse
17 July 1962 The Forbidden Rite
18 July 1962 Village Wooing
8 Aug 1962 Murther in the Cathedral
3 Oct 1962 The Music Upstairs
14 Nov 1962 The Prisoner
19 Dec 1962 Light Me a Lucifer
3 April 1963 - Pearl Fishers - 46th ABC production
17 April 1963 The Chinese Wall
26 June 1963 Uneasy Paradise
7 Aug 1963 Barnstable
18 Sept 1963 The Fighting Cock
16 Oct 1963 Man for All Seasons
31 March 1964 - Half Hour with Helpmann
7 June 1964 directs First 400 Years
Sept 1964 directed Soldiers Tale for the Trust
Sept 1964 leaves for 12 months - to go to US, Canada and London
Nov 1964 in Chicago
Sept 1964 - BBC agree to have Sterling on attachment
1965 works for BBC
1971 - goes freelance
directs Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972 - returns to Australia on promo trip for Alice
1977 back in Australia
*Burst of Summer
*Murder in the Cathedral
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| The Age 26 Sept 1958 supplement p 2 |
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| The Age 28 Dec 1972 |
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| The Age 15 Jan 1977 |
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| The Bulletin 6 Jan 1973 |
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