Patrick Wymark(1926-1970)

Died of a heart attack in his Sheraton Hotel suite three days before opening in a run of Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth", in which he was to play author Andrew Wyke, at Melbourne's Playbox Theatre in October 1970. His body was discovered by John Fraser when Patrick Wymark was to be collected for a promotional appearance on In Melbourne Tonight (1957), whose presenters were left to ad-lib around his absence, unaware of his death.

[on how he views himself in his profession] It is very difficult for an actor to talk about himself as a good actor. No matter how successful, there is always the time one realises one has to be better. There is always a large percentage of people who cannot bear the sight of you on the stage or on television. I am always conscious of these people in an audience. They are a challenge to me as an actor. I work hard - as well as I can - hoping they will leave thinking I was not as bad as they thought I was. The knowledge that everyone doesn't like me gives me quite an impetus, stimulates my imagination to communicate, to get through to these people.