Candy Raymond

Candida Raymond (born 1950) is an Australian actress of film and television during the 1970s and early 1980s. She attended St Ives High School in Sydney.[1]

Candy Raymond
Born
Candida Raymond

1950 (age 70–71)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Years active1969–present

Professional career

As a teenager she played small guest roles in Australian television soap operas and TV series including Skippy (1969) and Riptide (1969). She also appeared in stage revues.[2]

She attended NIDA in a class that included John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes and Grigor Taylor.[3]

In mid-1973, she played Jill Sheridan in Number 96 who was presented as a sex symbol in what was considered an adults only TV show, ultimately involving her in several, controversial, nude sequences,. She then played a regular character in Class of '74.

In 1975, Raymond was a regular in a comic skit segment titled "The Checkout Chicks" which in turn was part of The Norman Gunston Show (1975).

As both actress and storyline writer, she played a Jewish escapee of Europe in the WWII based TV series The Sullivans (1976).

She also appeared in a number of feature films, including Alvin Rides Again (1974), the attractive artist Kerry in Don's Party (1976), A Viennese school teacher in The Getting of Wisdom (1977),[4] Money Movers (1978), The Journalist (1979), Freedom (1982) and Monkey Grip (1982).[5]

In 1977 she appeared in a talk show about astrology The Zodiac Girls.[6]

She was also in stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show and Play It Again, Sam.

In 1981, she played imprisoned journalist, Sandra Hamilton, in the TV series Prisoner. That year she said she hoped to write and produce a feature.[7]

1985 was a busy year. Over several months, Ms Raymond was involved in filming two television mini-series simultaneously in two different cities - In Sydney, she filmed Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe (1985), and in Melbourne, she was involved in The Great Bookie Robbery (1986).[8]

In the same year, she also starred in the ABC telefilm Breaking Up, playing a 30-something mother-of-two going through a marriage break-up. For this role, she later won an Australian Film Institute Award as best Actress in a tele-movie or mini-series.[9]

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Ms Raymond was active as a voice artist for radio and television and occasionally appeared in dramatized educational films.

Later Career

Her last feature film role was as a French / Vietnamese brothel Madam in the action film A Case of Honor (1991), which was filmed on location in the Philippines.

She appears as herself in the feature documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008), where she interviewed about women in Australian films of the 1970s.

Personal life

Raymond presently lives near Bowral, Australia. She is the sister of actress Victoria Raymond also of Number 96 fame as the second actress to play Bev Houghton after Abigail Rogan left the role. Raymond is active in animal rights, writing and occasionally participating in local theatre and music events.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1972 Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens Gang member
1974 Alvin Rides Again Girl in office
1976 Don's Party Kerry Directed by Bruce Beresford
1977 The Getting of Wisdom Miss Zielinski Directed by Bruce Beresford
1978 Money Movers Mindel Seagers Directed by Bruce Beresford
1979 The Journalist Sunshine
1982 Freedom Annie
1982 Monkey Grip Lillian
1989 A Case of Honor Charlene 'Charlie' Delibes

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1969 Riptide Teenage Girl Episode: "Jump High, Land Easy"
1969 Skippy Georgie Episode: "Plain Jane"
1971 Matlock Police Helene Episode: "The Gypsies"
1972 Division 4 Julie Episode: "Birds of a Feather"
1973 Number 96 Jill Sheridan Series regular
1974 Silent Number Edy Episode: "Day Cruise"
1975 Norman Gunston The Checkout Chicks Guest role
1976 The Sullivans Rachele TV film
1977 Bluey Susan Martin Episode: "Lonely Ordeal"
1977 Young Ramsey April Kent Episode: "A Kid Is a Kid"
1978 Chopper Squad Lindy Episode: "Long Weekend"
1978–79 Cop Shop Sally Pitman, Beth Harrison Episodes: "1.215", "1.216", "1.140", "1.148"
1979 The Plumber Meg TV film
1980 Kingswood Country Fiona Beaumont Episode: "The Shares of the Fisherman"
1981 Prisoner Sandra Hamilton Guest role
1981 Cornflakes for Tea Robin Hart TV series
1982 M.P.S.I.B. Kuan Sadler Episode: "Death of a Ghost"
1985 Winners Jean Episode: "The Other Facts of Life"
1985 The Story of Johnny O'Keefe Maureen O'Keefe TV miniseries
1985 Breaking Up TV movie
1986 The Great Bookie Robbery Sonya Reynolds TV film
1986 The Movers Sacha TV film
1988 Hey Dad..! Felicity Simpson-Green Episode: "The Love Triangle"
1988 The Flying Doctors Joanne Wright Episodes: "Repeat Performance", "One Final Request"
1989 Rafferty's Rules Jean Robbins Episode: "The Plague"

Theatre
  • Killara 360 Revue (1967)[10]
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970) - Old Tote
  • Blood Wedding (1970) - Old Tote
  • Foursome (1975) - Seymour[11]
  • The Rocky Horror Show (1978)
  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1980) - Nimrod [12]

References
  1. "ON THE SNOWFIELDS". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia. 13 September 1967. p. 11. Retrieved 28 May 2020 – via Trove.
  2. "COMMERCE — ENTERPRISE AND SKITS-A-PHRENIA". Tharunka. 13 (8). New South Wales, Australia. 6 June 1967. p. 14. Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Where Judgment Day comes early each October". The Bulletin. 24 October 1970.
  4. "WHO'S DOING WHAT". Filmnews. 6 (12). New South Wales, Australia. 1 December 1976. p. 10. Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Jon breaks free". The Australian Women's Weekly. 49 (42). Australia. 7 April 1982. p. 156 (TV & ENTERTAINMENT WORLD). Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "'The Zodiac Girls' now being picked". The Canberra Times. 50 (14, 793). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 3 June 1977. p. 23. Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Some fresh faces[?] and old favourites for '81 Soapies". The Australian Women's Weekly. 48 (39). Australia. 25 February 1981. p. 42 (TV WORLD). Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. "Features 10 years later, cameras roll on the Great Bookie Robbery Bright light for a perfect crime". The Canberra Times. 60 (18, 448). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 5 April 1986. p. 7 (Section B). Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. "Untitled". Filmnews. 16 (6). New South Wales, Australia. 1 November 1986. p. 4. Retrieved 20 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. "COMMERCE — ENTERPRISE AND SKITS-A-PHRENIA". Tharunka. New South Wales, Australia. 6 June 1967. p. 14. Retrieved 28 May 2020 – via Trove.
  11. "Theatre Up, up and away". The Bulletin. 15 November 1975.
  12. Review at The Bulletin
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