Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Senate, and from 1950 until his retirement, Brown was the sole Father. He died in 1967. Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time
Gordon Jackson (actor) British Actor of the Year and in 1979 he was made an OBE. Jackson was cast opposite Bette Davis for the American television film "Madame Sin" (1972), which was released in overseas markets as a feature film. His next big television role was in "The Professionals" from 1977. He played George Cowley in all 57 episodes until the programme's end in 1983, although filming had finished in 1981. He played Noel Strachan in the Australian Second World War drama "A Town Like Alice" (1981), winning a Logie Award for his performance. After "A Town Like Alice" and "The Professionals", Gordon