Toni Lamond | |
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![]() Lamond in The Pajama Game (1957) | |
Born | Patricia Lamond Lawman 29 March 1932
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Other names | Lolly-Legs (nickname) |
Occupations |
|
Years active | 1942–present |
Spouse |
Frank Sheldon
(
m. 1954; died 1966) |
Family | Helen Reddy (half-sister), Tony Sheldon (son) |
Musical career | |
Genres |
|
Website | http://www.tonilamond.com |
Toni Lamond AM (born as Patricia Lamond Lawman; 29 March 1932), is an Australian vaudevillian, cabaret performer, singer, actress, dancer, comedian, writer and television and radio personality/presenter. She has had a successful career spanning some 80 years, both locally and internationally, including in the United Kingdom and United States. [1]
Lamond, who comes from a family involved in the performing arts, started her career as a child actor vaudeville/variety entertainment aged ten and was the first woman in the world to host a midday show. The second was her younger half-sister Helen Reddy. [2]
Alongside her showbiz contemporaries Jill Perryman and Nancye Hayes, Lamond has been called one of the three grand dames of Australian musical theatre, and in her prime a talent that could rival Doris Day. [3]
Lamond was born in Sydney, Australia in 1932 to actress and comedian Stella Lamond (1909-1973) and actor father Joe Lawman, as Patricia Lamond Lawman. She learned to tap dance at 8 and began her professional career aged 10 when she sang on the radio while touring with her vaudevillian parents in variety shows. [4] [5]
Lamond worked on the Tivoli Theatre circuit, the Brennan-Fuller Vaudeville Circuit and J. C. Williamson's and was a staple of touring mainstream theatre since 1951.
Her first stage performances were at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney. [5] Her first performances as a leading lady were with English comedian Tommy Trinder in The Tommy Trinder Show in 1952. [6]
She also starred in Australian productions of Oliver!, Annie Get Your Gun, The Pajama Game, and Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
Lamond was given the nickname 'Lolly-Legs' by entertainer, Noel Ferrier , who stated she had the "second best legs in the industry" when she featured on In Melbourne Tonight [2]
Lamond was a regular in a number of 1970s television shows, such as Number 96 in a controversial black mass storyline and Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight. [2] She later compèred her own IMT, becoming the first woman in the world to compère a variety television show. [7]
In 1986, she appeared on the US television fiction crime series Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury in the episode "Murder in the Electric Cathedral". [8] She also appeared in films including telemovies and features such as the 2007 Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance. [9]
Lamond travelled to the United Kingdom, where in a similar vein to entertainer Lorrae Desmond, she appeared in the British night club and cabaret, circuit and on BBC-TV and BBC Radio. She also recorded two singles for record label; Philips in London. [7]
In the mid-1970s, Lamond moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in musicals and television shows. She debuted on the New York stage with a production Cabaret at the age of 67. On her return to Australia in the mid-1990s, she performed in shows including 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance, and My Fair Lady.
In April–May 2008, she appeared in an autobiographical one-woman show, Times of My Life (co-written with her son Tony Sheldon), at the Seymour Centre in Sydney. [10]
Lamond has written several autobiographical books, including First Half (1990), Along the Way (2002), and Still a Gypsy (2007). The first book went to the top of the bestseller list in eight days. [11]
In July 2010, Lamond was a headline act in the inaugural Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
She joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with Trisha Crowe, Michael Falzon, Amanda Harrison, Lucy Maunder, Andy Conaghan, and others to record I Dreamed a Dream: The Hit Songs of Broadway for ABC Classics, released on 21 June 2013. [12] Lamond sang " Send in the Clowns" from Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1987 | Running from the Guns | Davie's Mum | Feature film |
1989 | How Wonderful! | Kerry's Mum | TV movie |
1991 | Spotswood (aka The Efficiency Expert) | Mrs. Lorna Ball | Feature film |
1994 | The Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | TV movie |
2007 | Razzle Dazzle | Sherry Leonard | Feature film |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1972 | Number 96 | Karen Winters | TV series, 10 episodes |
1973 | The True Blue Show | Various characters | TV series, episode 5 |
1974 | Division 4 | Janie Gibson | TV series, 1 episode |
1974 | Mac and Merle | TV series | |
1975 | The Unisexers | Mrs. Lewis | TV series (recurring role) |
1977 | Starsky & Hutch | Ruth Willoughby | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1977 | The Bob Newhart Show | Mrs. Doris Peterson | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1979 | Eight Is Enough | Mrs. Dreissen | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1982 | Three's Company | Patient | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1984 | Punky Brewster | Stage Manager | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1985 | The Love Boat | Mrs. Burton | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1986 | Murder, She Wrote | Ad-Lib Woman | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1986 | The Last Frontier | Auntie Dier | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
1987 | Starman | Edna | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1987 | The Tortellis | Mrs Hamilton | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1987 | Highway to Heaven | Maggie (as Tony Lamond) | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1992 | Fish Police | Voice | Animated TV series (US), 1 episode |
1992 | Capitol Critters | Voice | Animated TV series (US), 1 episode |
1997 | Fallen Angels | Irene Lucas | TV series, 1 episode |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1967 | I’m Alright Now | Herseif | TV series |
1952 | The Tommy Trinder Show | Guest | TV series UK, 1 episode |
1958 | Personal Album | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1959–60 | BP Super Show | Comedian | TV series, 3 episodes |
1959–70 | In Melbourne Tonight | Guest | TV series, 6 episodes |
1960 | Be My Guest | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1960–65 | Graham Kennedy's Channel 9 Show | Regular guest performer | TV series |
1962 | The 3rd Annual Logie Awards | Winner | TV special |
1966 | Jimmy | Guest | TV series, 3 episodes |
1969 | Bandstand | Guest performer | TV series, 1 episode |
1969 | Show of the North | Guest | TV series (UK), 1 episode |
1969; 1975 | The Don Lane Tonight Show | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
1972 | Kamahl | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1972–75 | The Graham Kennedy Show | Guest | TV series, 5 episodes |
1974 | The Bert Newton Show | Guest performer | TV series, 1 episode |
1978; 1979 | The Mike Douglas Show | Guest performer | TV series US, 2 episodes |
1978 | This Is Your Life | Special guest | TV series, 1 episode: " Toni Lamond" |
1978 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1981 | Channel Nine Celebrates: 25 Years of Television | Herself (archive clips from In Melbourne Tonight) | TV special |
1982 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest (with son Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
1982 | Parkinson in Australia | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
1983; 1984 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
1986 | Star Search | Guest judge | TV series, 1 episode |
1987 | The Tortellis | Guest role: Mrs. Hamilton | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1989 | The Bert Newton Show | Guest performer | TV series, 1 episode |
1989; 1990 | In Melbourne Today | Guest (with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 2 episodes |
1989 | Turn onto Tap | Presenter | Video |
1990 | Hey Hey It's Saturday | Herself | TV series, 1 episode ("Red Faces" segment) |
1992 | The Morning Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1994 | At Home | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1996 | Good Morning Australia | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1998 | Good Morning Australia | Guest (with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
1998 | Denise | Guest (with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
1999; | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" with Helen Reddy) | TV series, 1 episode |
1999 | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "The Place That I'll Call Home") | TV series, 1 episode |
2002 | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "I'm Still Here") | TV series, 1 episode |
2003 | This Is Your Life: Helen Reddy | Guest performer (singing "Best Friend" with Helen Reddy) | TV series, 1 episode |
2004 | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "St Louis Blues" with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
2005 | Graham Kennedy: Farewell to the King | Guest performer (singing "I Believe in You") | TV special |
2005 | Good Morning Australia | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
2005 | Talking Heads | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
2005–2009 | Spicks and Specks | Guest | TV series, 5 episodes |
2005 | 50 Years 50 Shows | Herself | TV Special |
2005 | Sunday Afternoon | Herself & Stuart Wagstaff (June Bronhill Tribute) | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
2007 | Bert's Family Feud | Contestant (with Noeline Brown, Val Jellay & Val Lehman) | TV series, 1 episode |
2010 | Lights! Camera! Party! Television City Celebrates | Herself | TV special |
2011 | Helpmann Awards | Special guest - recipient of JC Williamson Award for Lifetime Achievement (with Jill Perryman & Nancye Hayes) | TV special |
2015–17 | Stop Laughing...This Is Serious | Herself | TV series, 3 episodes |
2018 | The Recording Studio | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1951 | Gay Fiesta / Mother Goose | Theatre Royal, Adelaide | |
1952–53 | The Tommy Trinder Show | Actor / Singer | Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Theatre Royal, Adelaide, Tivoli Theatre, Sydney |
1952 | By Request | Soubrette | Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne |
1952 | Cinderella | Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne | |
1957 | The Pajama Game | Babe Williams | His Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Empire Theatre, Sydney, Theatre Royal, Adelaide with J. C. Williamson's |
1959 | For Amusement Only | Self / Singer | Theatre Royal, Sydney with J. C. Williamson's |
1963 | Wildcat | Wildcat Jackson | Princess Theatre, Melbourne with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
1966 | Oliver! | Nancy | Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Theatre Royal, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Canberra Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Sydney with J. C. Williamson's |
1971 | Anything Goes | Reno Sweeney | Richbrooke Theatre, Sydney |
1973 | Expresso Bongo | SGIO Theatre, Brisbane with Queensland Theatre Company | |
1975 | Gypsy | Mama Rose | Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney with J. C. Williamson's |
1977 | Annie Get Your Gun | Annie Oakley | Adelaide Festival Centre |
Carry On Laughing | Bournemouth, UK | ||
1978–82 | Annie | Sophie / the Kettle / Mrs. Pugh / Perkins / Miss Hannigan (understudy] | Broadway, New York (second national tour) |
Hello, Dolly! | Dolly Gallagher Levi (understudy for Yvonne De Carlo) | Grand Dinner Theater, Anaheim | |
Mame | USA | ||
42nd Street | USA | ||
Oliver! | USA | ||
Female Transport | USA | ||
An Evening with Woody Allen | USA | ||
Nunsense | USA | ||
1985 | Sherlock's Last Case | Mrs. Hudson | New Mayfair Theatre, Santa Monica |
1985 | Madonna and Child | Self / singer | Off Broadway Theatre, Sydney (with son, Tony Sheldon) |
1986 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Princess Puffer | Sacramento Music Circus, California |
1989; 1992–93 | 42nd Street | Maggie Jones | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, Festival Theatre, Adelaide, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne |
1991 | Cabaret | Fraulein Schneider | Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA |
1992 | Legends at the Tilbury Hotel | Singer | Tilbury Hotel, Sydney for Sydney Festival |
1992 | Better Known as Bee | Q Theatre, Penrith | |
1992 | A Life in Show Business | Solo show / Self | La Boite Theatre, Brisbane |
1993 | Follies | Hattie | State Theatre, Melbourne |
1994 | Legends | Singer | Sydney Opera House |
1994 | The Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, State Theatre, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Newcastle Civic Theatre, Canberra Theatre with Essgee Entertainment (also in 1994 TV movie version) |
1995 | Woman on the Move | Solo show / Singer | Glen Street Theatre, Sydney, Tilbury Hotel, Sydney |
1996 | My Fair Lady | Mrs Pearce | Lyric Theatre, Brisbane with Victorian State Opera |
1996 | Gala Re-Opening of the Regent Theatre | Artistic performer (guest) | Regent Theatre, Melbourne |
1996 | Beauty and the Beast | Madame de le Grande Bouche | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney |
1998 | Follies | Sally Durant Plummer | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras |
1998 | Dream Kitchen | Betty / solo show | Universal Theatre, Melbourne |
1998 | The 4th Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Singer | Playhouse, Canberra |
1999 | Oh, Coward! | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Northside Theatre Company | |
1999 | Careful, He Might Hear You | Lila Baines | Acton Street Theatre |
2001; 2002 | Toni Lamond: Full of Life | Solo show / Singer | Cafe 9, Sydney, Top of the Cross, Canberra, Woodfire Cabaret Restaurant, Sydney, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide with East Coast Theatre Company |
2001 | The 7th Annual Duesburys Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Playhouse, Canberra | |
2002 | The 2nd Helpmann Awards 2002 | The Star, Sydney | |
2002 | Hot Spots | Banquet Room, Adelaide for Adelaide Cabaret Festival | |
2002 | The 8th Annual Duesburys Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Patron | Playhouse, Canberra |
2003 | Stage Door | The Basement, Sydney | |
2003 | Not New Years Eve | Singer | Sydney Opera House with Willoughby Symphony Choir & Australian Philharmonic Orchestra |
2003 | New Year's Eve & the Night Before | Singer | Melbourne Concert Hall with Australian Philharmonic Orchestra & Australian Pops Orchestra |
2004 | High Society | Mother Lord | State Theatre, Melbourne with Orchestra Victoria & The Production Company |
2004 | Morning Melodies | Brolga Theatre, Maryborough | |
2004 | The 10th Walter Turnbull Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Canberra Theatre | |
2005 | Shout | Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide | |
2006 | Telstra Country Wide Canberra Area Theatre Awards 2005 | Canberra Theatre | |
2006 | Kookaburra Launch Concert | Singer | Lyric Theatre, Sydney |
2006 | The Full Monty | The Street Theatre | |
2006–08 | Times of My Life | Solo show / Singer | Australian tour |
2007 | Toni Lamond – Still Full of Life | Solo show / Singer | Ford Theatre, Geelong, Frankston Arts Centre |
2007; 2008 | Ozmade Musicals Concert | Singer | Melbourne Athenaeum |
2008 | A Musical Send Off | Singer | Capitol Theatre, Sydney |
2009 | The Burlesque Hour - Legends! | Singer | Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
2010 | The Burlesque Hour: She's Back | Singer | Acton Street Theatre |
2010 | Love, Loss, and What I Wore | Various roles | Sydney Opera House |
2019 | Showqueen | Singer | Sydney Cabaret Festival |
Year | Title | Type |
---|---|---|
1990 | First Half | Autobiography |
2002 | Along the Way | Autobiography |
2007 | Still a Gypsy | Autobiography |
1976 | Cooking When You’re Broke |
Association | Award | Year | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Logie Awards | Most Popular Victorian Personality | 1962 | Won |
Variety Club of Australia Award | Entertainment Award | Honoured | |
Mo Award | Entertainment Award | Honoured | |
Government honour | Key to the City of Melbourne | 1993 | Honoured |
List of Woman Shaping the Nation | 2000 | Honoured | |
Government of Australia | Centenary Medal for Service to the Arts Community | 2001 | Honoured |
Australian Government | Order of Australia (AM) for Service to the Entertainment Industry and service to the community through fundraising, including the Guide Dog Association of NSW and Canberra [16] | 2003 | Honoured |
Helpmann Awards | JC Williamson Award Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to the Live Performance sector and Theatre | 2011 | Honoured |
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance | Equity Sector Lifetime Achievement Award | 2014 | Honoured |
Actors Equity president Simon Burke says: "Toni is a truly legendary Australian performer whose phenomenal career has spanned vaudeville, musical theatre, television, and cabaret. She is also a wonderful human being who has given back to her community, to her colleagues, and to her industry in every way she can." [21]
Lamond has a significant pedigree within the Australian performing arts. She is the daughter of Stella Lamond ( Homicide and Bellbird) and Joe Lawman, both vaudeville entertainers. Her parents divorced when she was seven and Stella remarried Max Reddy (Homicide), whilst Lawman married soubrette Joy Robbins. [22]
Therefore through her step-father she is a half-sister to the late singer Helen Reddy, whom she raised as a surrogate mother while their parents were performing. [23]
Her son is actor and writer Tony Sheldon
She married performer Frank Sheldon in 1954, but in 1966 shortly after a separation, he took his own life.
An addiction to prescription drugs followed, and she was a patient at Chelmsford Private Hospital, where she underwent deep sleep therapy. [24] She overcame and publicly discussed the issue in an episode of The Mike Walsh Show, becoming one of the first Australian media personalities to do so.
Toni Lamond | |
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![]() Lamond in The Pajama Game (1957) | |
Born | Patricia Lamond Lawman 29 March 1932
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Other names | Lolly-Legs (nickname) |
Occupations |
|
Years active | 1942–present |
Spouse |
Frank Sheldon
(
m. 1954; died 1966) |
Family | Helen Reddy (half-sister), Tony Sheldon (son) |
Musical career | |
Genres |
|
Website | http://www.tonilamond.com |
Toni Lamond AM (born as Patricia Lamond Lawman; 29 March 1932), is an Australian vaudevillian, cabaret performer, singer, actress, dancer, comedian, writer and television and radio personality/presenter. She has had a successful career spanning some 80 years, both locally and internationally, including in the United Kingdom and United States. [1]
Lamond, who comes from a family involved in the performing arts, started her career as a child actor vaudeville/variety entertainment aged ten and was the first woman in the world to host a midday show. The second was her younger half-sister Helen Reddy. [2]
Alongside her showbiz contemporaries Jill Perryman and Nancye Hayes, Lamond has been called one of the three grand dames of Australian musical theatre, and in her prime a talent that could rival Doris Day. [3]
Lamond was born in Sydney, Australia in 1932 to actress and comedian Stella Lamond (1909-1973) and actor father Joe Lawman, as Patricia Lamond Lawman. She learned to tap dance at 8 and began her professional career aged 10 when she sang on the radio while touring with her vaudevillian parents in variety shows. [4] [5]
Lamond worked on the Tivoli Theatre circuit, the Brennan-Fuller Vaudeville Circuit and J. C. Williamson's and was a staple of touring mainstream theatre since 1951.
Her first stage performances were at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney. [5] Her first performances as a leading lady were with English comedian Tommy Trinder in The Tommy Trinder Show in 1952. [6]
She also starred in Australian productions of Oliver!, Annie Get Your Gun, The Pajama Game, and Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
Lamond was given the nickname 'Lolly-Legs' by entertainer, Noel Ferrier , who stated she had the "second best legs in the industry" when she featured on In Melbourne Tonight [2]
Lamond was a regular in a number of 1970s television shows, such as Number 96 in a controversial black mass storyline and Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight. [2] She later compèred her own IMT, becoming the first woman in the world to compère a variety television show. [7]
In 1986, she appeared on the US television fiction crime series Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury in the episode "Murder in the Electric Cathedral". [8] She also appeared in films including telemovies and features such as the 2007 Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance. [9]
Lamond travelled to the United Kingdom, where in a similar vein to entertainer Lorrae Desmond, she appeared in the British night club and cabaret, circuit and on BBC-TV and BBC Radio. She also recorded two singles for record label; Philips in London. [7]
In the mid-1970s, Lamond moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in musicals and television shows. She debuted on the New York stage with a production Cabaret at the age of 67. On her return to Australia in the mid-1990s, she performed in shows including 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance, and My Fair Lady.
In April–May 2008, she appeared in an autobiographical one-woman show, Times of My Life (co-written with her son Tony Sheldon), at the Seymour Centre in Sydney. [10]
Lamond has written several autobiographical books, including First Half (1990), Along the Way (2002), and Still a Gypsy (2007). The first book went to the top of the bestseller list in eight days. [11]
In July 2010, Lamond was a headline act in the inaugural Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
She joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with Trisha Crowe, Michael Falzon, Amanda Harrison, Lucy Maunder, Andy Conaghan, and others to record I Dreamed a Dream: The Hit Songs of Broadway for ABC Classics, released on 21 June 2013. [12] Lamond sang " Send in the Clowns" from Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1987 | Running from the Guns | Davie's Mum | Feature film |
1989 | How Wonderful! | Kerry's Mum | TV movie |
1991 | Spotswood (aka The Efficiency Expert) | Mrs. Lorna Ball | Feature film |
1994 | The Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | TV movie |
2007 | Razzle Dazzle | Sherry Leonard | Feature film |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1972 | Number 96 | Karen Winters | TV series, 10 episodes |
1973 | The True Blue Show | Various characters | TV series, episode 5 |
1974 | Division 4 | Janie Gibson | TV series, 1 episode |
1974 | Mac and Merle | TV series | |
1975 | The Unisexers | Mrs. Lewis | TV series (recurring role) |
1977 | Starsky & Hutch | Ruth Willoughby | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1977 | The Bob Newhart Show | Mrs. Doris Peterson | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1979 | Eight Is Enough | Mrs. Dreissen | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1982 | Three's Company | Patient | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1984 | Punky Brewster | Stage Manager | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1985 | The Love Boat | Mrs. Burton | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1986 | Murder, She Wrote | Ad-Lib Woman | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1986 | The Last Frontier | Auntie Dier | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
1987 | Starman | Edna | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1987 | The Tortellis | Mrs Hamilton | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1987 | Highway to Heaven | Maggie (as Tony Lamond) | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1992 | Fish Police | Voice | Animated TV series (US), 1 episode |
1992 | Capitol Critters | Voice | Animated TV series (US), 1 episode |
1997 | Fallen Angels | Irene Lucas | TV series, 1 episode |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1967 | I’m Alright Now | Herseif | TV series |
1952 | The Tommy Trinder Show | Guest | TV series UK, 1 episode |
1958 | Personal Album | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1959–60 | BP Super Show | Comedian | TV series, 3 episodes |
1959–70 | In Melbourne Tonight | Guest | TV series, 6 episodes |
1960 | Be My Guest | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1960–65 | Graham Kennedy's Channel 9 Show | Regular guest performer | TV series |
1962 | The 3rd Annual Logie Awards | Winner | TV special |
1966 | Jimmy | Guest | TV series, 3 episodes |
1969 | Bandstand | Guest performer | TV series, 1 episode |
1969 | Show of the North | Guest | TV series (UK), 1 episode |
1969; 1975 | The Don Lane Tonight Show | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
1972 | Kamahl | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1972–75 | The Graham Kennedy Show | Guest | TV series, 5 episodes |
1974 | The Bert Newton Show | Guest performer | TV series, 1 episode |
1978; 1979 | The Mike Douglas Show | Guest performer | TV series US, 2 episodes |
1978 | This Is Your Life | Special guest | TV series, 1 episode: " Toni Lamond" |
1978 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1981 | Channel Nine Celebrates: 25 Years of Television | Herself (archive clips from In Melbourne Tonight) | TV special |
1982 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest (with son Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
1982 | Parkinson in Australia | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
1983; 1984 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
1986 | Star Search | Guest judge | TV series, 1 episode |
1987 | The Tortellis | Guest role: Mrs. Hamilton | TV series (US), 1 episode |
1989 | The Bert Newton Show | Guest performer | TV series, 1 episode |
1989; 1990 | In Melbourne Today | Guest (with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 2 episodes |
1989 | Turn onto Tap | Presenter | Video |
1990 | Hey Hey It's Saturday | Herself | TV series, 1 episode ("Red Faces" segment) |
1992 | The Morning Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1994 | At Home | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1996 | Good Morning Australia | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1998 | Good Morning Australia | Guest (with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
1998 | Denise | Guest (with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
1999; | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" with Helen Reddy) | TV series, 1 episode |
1999 | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "The Place That I'll Call Home") | TV series, 1 episode |
2002 | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "I'm Still Here") | TV series, 1 episode |
2003 | This Is Your Life: Helen Reddy | Guest performer (singing "Best Friend" with Helen Reddy) | TV series, 1 episode |
2004 | Good Morning Australia | Guest performer (singing "St Louis Blues" with Tony Sheldon) | TV series, 1 episode |
2005 | Graham Kennedy: Farewell to the King | Guest performer (singing "I Believe in You") | TV special |
2005 | Good Morning Australia | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
2005 | Talking Heads | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
2005–2009 | Spicks and Specks | Guest | TV series, 5 episodes |
2005 | 50 Years 50 Shows | Herself | TV Special |
2005 | Sunday Afternoon | Herself & Stuart Wagstaff (June Bronhill Tribute) | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
2007 | Bert's Family Feud | Contestant (with Noeline Brown, Val Jellay & Val Lehman) | TV series, 1 episode |
2010 | Lights! Camera! Party! Television City Celebrates | Herself | TV special |
2011 | Helpmann Awards | Special guest - recipient of JC Williamson Award for Lifetime Achievement (with Jill Perryman & Nancye Hayes) | TV special |
2015–17 | Stop Laughing...This Is Serious | Herself | TV series, 3 episodes |
2018 | The Recording Studio | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1951 | Gay Fiesta / Mother Goose | Theatre Royal, Adelaide | |
1952–53 | The Tommy Trinder Show | Actor / Singer | Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Theatre Royal, Adelaide, Tivoli Theatre, Sydney |
1952 | By Request | Soubrette | Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne |
1952 | Cinderella | Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne | |
1957 | The Pajama Game | Babe Williams | His Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Empire Theatre, Sydney, Theatre Royal, Adelaide with J. C. Williamson's |
1959 | For Amusement Only | Self / Singer | Theatre Royal, Sydney with J. C. Williamson's |
1963 | Wildcat | Wildcat Jackson | Princess Theatre, Melbourne with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
1966 | Oliver! | Nancy | Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Theatre Royal, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Canberra Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Sydney with J. C. Williamson's |
1971 | Anything Goes | Reno Sweeney | Richbrooke Theatre, Sydney |
1973 | Expresso Bongo | SGIO Theatre, Brisbane with Queensland Theatre Company | |
1975 | Gypsy | Mama Rose | Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney with J. C. Williamson's |
1977 | Annie Get Your Gun | Annie Oakley | Adelaide Festival Centre |
Carry On Laughing | Bournemouth, UK | ||
1978–82 | Annie | Sophie / the Kettle / Mrs. Pugh / Perkins / Miss Hannigan (understudy] | Broadway, New York (second national tour) |
Hello, Dolly! | Dolly Gallagher Levi (understudy for Yvonne De Carlo) | Grand Dinner Theater, Anaheim | |
Mame | USA | ||
42nd Street | USA | ||
Oliver! | USA | ||
Female Transport | USA | ||
An Evening with Woody Allen | USA | ||
Nunsense | USA | ||
1985 | Sherlock's Last Case | Mrs. Hudson | New Mayfair Theatre, Santa Monica |
1985 | Madonna and Child | Self / singer | Off Broadway Theatre, Sydney (with son, Tony Sheldon) |
1986 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Princess Puffer | Sacramento Music Circus, California |
1989; 1992–93 | 42nd Street | Maggie Jones | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, Festival Theatre, Adelaide, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne |
1991 | Cabaret | Fraulein Schneider | Playhouse, Adelaide with STCSA |
1992 | Legends at the Tilbury Hotel | Singer | Tilbury Hotel, Sydney for Sydney Festival |
1992 | Better Known as Bee | Q Theatre, Penrith | |
1992 | A Life in Show Business | Solo show / Self | La Boite Theatre, Brisbane |
1993 | Follies | Hattie | State Theatre, Melbourne |
1994 | Legends | Singer | Sydney Opera House |
1994 | The Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, State Theatre, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Newcastle Civic Theatre, Canberra Theatre with Essgee Entertainment (also in 1994 TV movie version) |
1995 | Woman on the Move | Solo show / Singer | Glen Street Theatre, Sydney, Tilbury Hotel, Sydney |
1996 | My Fair Lady | Mrs Pearce | Lyric Theatre, Brisbane with Victorian State Opera |
1996 | Gala Re-Opening of the Regent Theatre | Artistic performer (guest) | Regent Theatre, Melbourne |
1996 | Beauty and the Beast | Madame de le Grande Bouche | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney |
1998 | Follies | Sally Durant Plummer | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras |
1998 | Dream Kitchen | Betty / solo show | Universal Theatre, Melbourne |
1998 | The 4th Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Singer | Playhouse, Canberra |
1999 | Oh, Coward! | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Northside Theatre Company | |
1999 | Careful, He Might Hear You | Lila Baines | Acton Street Theatre |
2001; 2002 | Toni Lamond: Full of Life | Solo show / Singer | Cafe 9, Sydney, Top of the Cross, Canberra, Woodfire Cabaret Restaurant, Sydney, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide with East Coast Theatre Company |
2001 | The 7th Annual Duesburys Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Playhouse, Canberra | |
2002 | The 2nd Helpmann Awards 2002 | The Star, Sydney | |
2002 | Hot Spots | Banquet Room, Adelaide for Adelaide Cabaret Festival | |
2002 | The 8th Annual Duesburys Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Patron | Playhouse, Canberra |
2003 | Stage Door | The Basement, Sydney | |
2003 | Not New Years Eve | Singer | Sydney Opera House with Willoughby Symphony Choir & Australian Philharmonic Orchestra |
2003 | New Year's Eve & the Night Before | Singer | Melbourne Concert Hall with Australian Philharmonic Orchestra & Australian Pops Orchestra |
2004 | High Society | Mother Lord | State Theatre, Melbourne with Orchestra Victoria & The Production Company |
2004 | Morning Melodies | Brolga Theatre, Maryborough | |
2004 | The 10th Walter Turnbull Canberra Area Theatre Awards | Canberra Theatre | |
2005 | Shout | Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide | |
2006 | Telstra Country Wide Canberra Area Theatre Awards 2005 | Canberra Theatre | |
2006 | Kookaburra Launch Concert | Singer | Lyric Theatre, Sydney |
2006 | The Full Monty | The Street Theatre | |
2006–08 | Times of My Life | Solo show / Singer | Australian tour |
2007 | Toni Lamond – Still Full of Life | Solo show / Singer | Ford Theatre, Geelong, Frankston Arts Centre |
2007; 2008 | Ozmade Musicals Concert | Singer | Melbourne Athenaeum |
2008 | A Musical Send Off | Singer | Capitol Theatre, Sydney |
2009 | The Burlesque Hour - Legends! | Singer | Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
2010 | The Burlesque Hour: She's Back | Singer | Acton Street Theatre |
2010 | Love, Loss, and What I Wore | Various roles | Sydney Opera House |
2019 | Showqueen | Singer | Sydney Cabaret Festival |
Year | Title | Type |
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1990 | First Half | Autobiography |
2002 | Along the Way | Autobiography |
2007 | Still a Gypsy | Autobiography |
1976 | Cooking When You’re Broke |
Association | Award | Year | Results |
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Logie Awards | Most Popular Victorian Personality | 1962 | Won |
Variety Club of Australia Award | Entertainment Award | Honoured | |
Mo Award | Entertainment Award | Honoured | |
Government honour | Key to the City of Melbourne | 1993 | Honoured |
List of Woman Shaping the Nation | 2000 | Honoured | |
Government of Australia | Centenary Medal for Service to the Arts Community | 2001 | Honoured |
Australian Government | Order of Australia (AM) for Service to the Entertainment Industry and service to the community through fundraising, including the Guide Dog Association of NSW and Canberra [16] | 2003 | Honoured |
Helpmann Awards | JC Williamson Award Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to the Live Performance sector and Theatre | 2011 | Honoured |
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance | Equity Sector Lifetime Achievement Award | 2014 | Honoured |
Actors Equity president Simon Burke says: "Toni is a truly legendary Australian performer whose phenomenal career has spanned vaudeville, musical theatre, television, and cabaret. She is also a wonderful human being who has given back to her community, to her colleagues, and to her industry in every way she can." [21]
Lamond has a significant pedigree within the Australian performing arts. She is the daughter of Stella Lamond ( Homicide and Bellbird) and Joe Lawman, both vaudeville entertainers. Her parents divorced when she was seven and Stella remarried Max Reddy (Homicide), whilst Lawman married soubrette Joy Robbins. [22]
Therefore through her step-father she is a half-sister to the late singer Helen Reddy, whom she raised as a surrogate mother while their parents were performing. [23]
Her son is actor and writer Tony Sheldon
She married performer Frank Sheldon in 1954, but in 1966 shortly after a separation, he took his own life.
An addiction to prescription drugs followed, and she was a patient at Chelmsford Private Hospital, where she underwent deep sleep therapy. [24] She overcame and publicly discussed the issue in an episode of The Mike Walsh Show, becoming one of the first Australian media personalities to do so.