Norman Kaye
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1927-01-17
Deathday 2007-05-29 (80 years old)
Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Norman Kaye
Biography
Norman James Kaye (17 January 1927 – 28 May 2007) was an Australian actor and composer. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox. As an actor, he was strongly associated with the films of Paul Cox, appearing in 16 of them. He had small roles in Cox's Illuminations (1976) and Kostas (1979), and shared the lead with Wendy Hughes in Cox's 1982 film Lonely Hearts and the lead in Man of Flowers (1983), for which he won an AFI Award. Norman Kaye was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease prior to 1997. His inability to memorise scripts for the film Innocence led to the end of his collaboration with Paul Cox, as well as the end of his career in 2004. Kaye was in the advanced stage of the disease at the time of his death in Sydney on 28 May 2007. He had enjoyed a 35-year relationship with the opera director Elke Neidhardt, and she was at his side at his death.
Known For
Actor
as Self
as Satine's Doctor
as Store Owner
as Alex
as Felix Friedman
as Pieter Leeuwen
as Ghost Priest
as Judge
as Charles
as Wedding Pastor
as Elias Kidd
as George
as Billy
as George McNair
as Joseph Binstead
as Billy Morgan
as Archbishop Mannix
as Desmond
as Salesman
as Harold Messenger
as Tom
as Reverend Aldershot
as Drunken Old Man
as William Randall
as Bill Randall
as George
as Uncle Edward
as Bruder Jones
as Baldwin Ferguson
as Charles Bremer
as George
as Percy Farley
as Mander
as Supt. Sadleir
as Alex
as Swagman
as Sir Timothy Hassall
as Prosecutor
Producer
as Associate Producer
Sound
as Music
Writer
as Writer