Geoff Paine

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Geoff Paine
Born (1965-08-08) 8 August 1965 (age 60)
Australia
EducationVictorian College of the Arts (1983–1985)
OccupationActor
Years active1986–present
Known forNeighbours
Pig's Breakfast
Mal.com
Children2

Geoff Paine is an Australian television and theatre actor from Melbourne. He is known for his a role as doctor Clive Gibbons on the soap opera Neighbours, as well as A Country Practice, Nine Network children's television series Pig's Breakfast and ABC3's Mal.com.

Early life

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Paine studied drama at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) for three years from 1983 to 1985.[1][2] Directly following his studies, he was approached by the Neighbours casting department to audition for the series, after they watched him perform in a play at the Victorian Arts Centre.[3]

Career

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Television

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In 1986, Paine secured the role of Clive Gibbons in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. This was his first television acting role after he had graduated.[4]

In November 1986, TV Week reported that Paine had quit the series but would remain on-screen until early 1987.[5] In a 1988 interview, Paine stated that he feared he would become typecast in the role and did not regret leaving.[3] The actor later made a brief return to the show in 1989.[6] Clive became popular with viewers and this return was scripted to set up a spin-off series, City Hospital. A pilot was made, but it was not picked up by any television networks.[7] Paine moved to London briefly before returning to live in Australia. Neighbours had achieved success in the United Kingdom and he was often approached by fans in the street.[1]

He went on to appear in episodes of the Seven Network soap opera A Country Practice as Jeff Ryan from 1987 to 1989.[8][9] Paine began appearing in the sketch show The Comedy Company when it returned for its 1990 season.[10] In 1996, Paine secured the guest role of Roman in Blue Heelers. He found the role "interesting" because Roman "is not what he seems."[11] On 13 November 1997, he appeared in an episode of State Coroner as a farmer, Barry Davis who is murdered.[12] In 1999, Paine secured the role of newsreader Malcolm Wilson in the Nine Network children's television series Pig's Breakfast.[13] He reprised the role for the show's second series.[14]

Other acting credits include guest roles in The Games, The Adventures of Lano and Woodley, Stingers, The Wedge, City Homicide, Wilfred and The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[15][16] Paine's film roles include The Craic (1999), The Wog Boy (2000) and The Wedding Party (2010).[17]

In early 2011, Paine took the role of Malcom Mann in Mal.com. The show was created for a young audience and Malcom is a television host who is also secretly a robot.[18] The show debuted via ABC3 on 28 October 2011.[19] In 2013, he secured a presenting role on Spontaneous Saturday which featured theatresport-type games. The two episode pilot was produced for the SBS network.[20]

In 2017, Paine reprised his role of Clive in Neighbours, twenty-eight years after he had last been on the show.[21] Paine's return came after he made an enquiry to the Neighbours production team via his agent. He had been asked to return previously, but was unable to because of family and other work commitments.[22] Paine remained with Neighbours on a recurring basis, filming episodic blocks while also working in a university.[23] The role saw him working with Colette Mann, with who he had previously co-starred in theatre work.[23][24] Paine also secured a guest role in an episode of Nine Network's Bad Mothers.[25]

Theatre

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Aside from television roles, Paine has also had a career in theatre, securing roles in various national productions.[26] In 1987, he played Michael in The Hope at the Victorian Arts Centre.[27] In 1991, Paine appeared in the stage version of Hair at the Melbourne Athenaeum.[28] He went on to secure a main role in the 1992 Australian tour of Up 'n' Under.[29] In 1993, Paine secured the role of Terry Legge in the production of Big Toys which was held at the Playbox Theatre, Melbourne.[30] That year Paine was appearing in the theatrical comedy titled "Shear Madness", alongside Colette Mann.[24] In April 1996, he played Marlowe in Murder to Die For, which was produced as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.[31] In May 1997, Paine joined his former Neighbours colleague Annie Jones in the production of Effie – Exposed.[32]

In April 2000, Paine starred in the stage production of The Linda Blair Witch Project at the Melbourne Town Hall.[33] He then appeared in theatre production of It's a Dad Thing! for its Australian tour.[34] In 2011, he wrote and acted a play show titled Unpack This, which debuted at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. The show was based on Paine's own experience attending a one day anger management work shop following a dispute with a neighbour.[35] His show then went on tour around Victoria.[36] In 2019, Paine and Mann worked together again creating their own improvisational show Mann Up and Take the Paine. The show, which also served as an acting class, played during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.[4]

Other work

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Outside of acting, Paine has worked as a content curator and blogger at Monash University since 2016.[37] Other jobs include time as a consultant for ABC and the Seven Network. He also created his own independent production company producing corporate communications for retail, government and non-profit organisations.[37] Paine is the Councillor for Wingrove Ward in the Nillumbik Council and is currently serving the 2020-2024 term.[38]

Personal life

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Paine is the youngest of six children.[39] Paine is the father of twins.[7]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1997 Kangaroo Palace Keith TV movie
1999 The Craic Russell Feature film
2000 The Wog Boy Nick Feature film
2006 Wil Dr. Fleiglebaum Film
2010 The Wedding Party Colin Feature film
Pisces, Arise! Eddie Short film
2011 Remake Steve Short film
2012 The Anti-Social Network Sarge Short film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1986–1987, 1989, 2017–2022 Neighbours Clive Gibbons Regular role; 336 episodes
1987 In Between Uncredited Guest role
The D-Generation Various Guest role
1987–1989 A Country Practice Jeff Ryan Recurring role
1988 The Gerry Connolly Show Queen's Aide / Surgeon Guest role
1989 Acropolis Now Jason Felfy Guest role
The Flying Doctors Steve Patterson Guest role
Mission: Impossible Michael Skelton Guest role
1990 The Comedy Company Various Regular role
1993 Snowy Geoff Williams Guest role
1994 Blue Heelers Arthur Lock Guest role
Breaking News Mike Moore Impersonator Guest role
A Country Practice Robbie McIntyre Guest role
Sky Trackers Space Camp Counsellor #2 Guest role
1995 Halifax f.p. Bill Doyle Guest role
The Man from Snowy River James Duncan Guest role
1996 Pacific Drive David Guest role
Blue Heelers Roman Kellerman Recurring role
1997 Good Guys, Bad Guys Arnold Tilson Guest role
State Coroner Barry Davis Guest role
1998 The Games Brett Paine Guest role
1999 The Adventures of Lano and Woodley Garth Delancey Guest role
Pig's Breakfast Malcolm Wilson Regular role
The Mick Molloy Show Various Guest role
2003 Stingers Jack Devereaux Guest role
2005 Holly's Heroes Lenny Cropper Guest role
2006 The Wedge Various Guest role
2007 City Homicide Jim Conway Guest role
2008 Canal Road Joffa Degan Guest role
Very Small Business Lloyd Recurring role
Wilfred Show Host Guest role
2010 City Homicide Geoff Parnell Guest role
2011 Mal.com Malcom Mann Regular role
2016 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Noel Foster Guest role
2019 Bad Mothers Tony Guest role
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Theatre

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As actor

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Year Title Role Venue / Co.
1985 Legends Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with VCA for Next Wave Festival
As You Like It Oliver Grant Street Theatre
1987 The Hope Michael Studio Theatre, Melbourne, Playhouse, Perth & WA tour with Playbox & Western Australian Theatre Company
1987–1988 Dizzy Spells Various characters The Last Laugh
1990 Pigments of the Imagination La Mama, Melbourne with Flying Pig Theatre Company
1991 Hair – The Tribal Love-Rock Musical Claude / Leonard Universal Theatre, Melbourne, Melbourne Athenaeum[40]
1992 Up 'n' Under Steve Edwards Australian tour
Dark of the Moon Victoria College, Melbourne
1993 The Real Live Brady Bunch – and the Real Live Game Show Doug Simpson Comedy Club, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival[41]
Shear Madness Nick Comedy Club, Melbourne
1993; 1994 Big Toys Terry Legge Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Ford Theatre, Geelong, Monash University, George Jenkins Theatre, Frankston, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat, Monash University with Playbox
1994 Hey Jack! Jack La Mama, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Jaws The Musical Dan O'Bannon Victorian Arts Centre
1994; 1996 Romeo and Juliet Paris Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne with Australian Shakespeare Company
1995 Putting it Together Narrator Flinders Park, Melbourne
1996 Murder to Die For Marlowe Fairfax Studio for Melbourne International Comedy Festival
X Files Unplugged Smoulder The Last Laugh
Happy End Bill Cracker St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Melbourne
1997 The La Mama 30th Birthday Celebration La Mama, Melbourne
The New Rocky Horror Show Brad Majors Hong Kong Lyric Theatre with Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
Effie X-posed Phil Universal Theatre, Melbourne
2000 The Linda Blair Witch Project Various characters Melbourne Town Hall
2002; 2003 Kissing Frogs Various characters Australian tour
2005 Control Freaks Comedian Duckboard House, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2006 A Kind of Hush Cinema Nova, Melbourne
It's a Dad Thing! Various characters Australian tour with TML Entertainment
2007; 2009; 2010 Spontaneous Broadway Chad Bradley Australian tour
Do You Know the Way to Ipanema VCA
2011 It's a Dad Thing! Various characters State Opera Studio, Adelaide for Adelaide Fringe Festival
2011; 2014 Unpack This! Geoff / Nguyen / Nicholas Melbourne Fringe Festival & Victorian tour, Mt Compass War Memorial Hall with Redskin Productions
2016 Chad's Back in Yack Yackandandah Hall[42]
2017 Credentials Stephen / Bruce La Mama, Melbourne
2019 Mann Up and Take the Paine Comedian Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2022 Hearth Father La Mama, Melbourne[43]

As writer / director

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Year Title Role Venue / Co.
2006 It's a Dad Thing! Writer / Director Australian tour with TML Entertainment
2011 It's a Dad Thing! Writer State Opera Studio, Adelaide for Adelaide Fringe Festival
2011; 2014 Unpack This! Writer / Director Melbourne Fringe Festival & Victorian tour, Mt Compass War Memorial Hall with Redskin Productions
2019 Mann Up and Take the Paine Creator Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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