Steve Vizard Biography
Steve Vizard AM is a television and radio broadcaster, producer, writer, lawyer, and businessman from Australia. He teaches at Monash University and the University of Adelaide as an adjunct professor.
How old is Steve Vizard? – Age
He is 67 years old as of 6 March 2023. She was born in 1956 in Richmond, Australia. His real name is Stephen William Vizard.
Steve Vizard Family – Education
Vizard was born to Godfrey Lancelot Pitt Vizard and June Purtell. He was raised in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and attended Carey Baptist Grammar School. In the early 1950s, his father, Godfrey, was a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea, exploring and documenting the unexplored Gulf region surrounding Kerema, including making the first contact with local Kukukuku.
Vizard received a scholarship to study law and arts (philosophy) at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Whitley College and later St Mary’s College until graduating in 1980. From 1981 to 1986, he was a partner in a Melbourne law firm, and from 1988 to 1988, he worked as an international commercial negotiator for multinational RTZ (Rio Tinto Zinc), primarily in the United Kingdom and Germany.
Steve Vizard Wife – Children
In 1988, Vizard married Sarah Wilmoth. The couple has five children; Stephanie Vizard, Madeleine Vizard, Thomas Vizard, Olivia Vizard, and James Vizard.
Steve Vizard Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Steve Vizard Height
He stands at a height of 6 feeet 1½ inches(1.87 m).
Steve Vizard Fast Forward
Vizard created, wrote, and produced the primetime sketch comedy series Fast Forward in 1989. The comedy series had the greatest ratings in Australia. Fast Forward and its successor, Full Frontal, ran for ten years and received numerous Logie Awards. Fast Forward included Vizard’s characters such as advertising guru Brent Smyth (with Peter Moon), Darryl (the gay airline steward, with Michael Veitch), “Fakari” rug merchant Roger Ramshett (with Peter Moon), and broadcaster Dirk Hartog. He also impersonated Derryn Hinch, Richard Carleton, Don Lane, Ian Turpie, George Donikian, Geoffrey Robertson, and, in one case, Gough Whitlam.
Steve Vizard House
In 2006, Vizard’s Toorak mansion established a Melbourne real estate record when it sold for $17.75 million after an unsolicited tap on the door offered to buy the landmark residence. Earlier that year, Vizard pursued three criminals who had broken into his Toorak property on Orrong Road. At 3 a.m., Vizard was awakened by his 16-year-old daughter, who had seen an intruder in her room, and Vizard chased the intruders into the street in his underwear, nearly being run over by the getaway Alfa Romeo.
The thief, Richard Lovett, was captured later that day after being involved in a brawl in which he stabbed a guy in the chest, puncturing his lung, and was sentenced to four years in prison for the robbery by the County Court of Victoria.
Steve Vizard Books
As well as composing for theater, TV and film, Vizard has composed and altered a few books, including a 2008 history of Graham Kennedy, Graham Kennedy Fortunes: He co-authored the book Friends Remember the King with Mike McColl-Jones (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0522855456). Other books include Australia’s Population Challenge (with Hugh J. Martin and Tim Watts, Penguin, 2003, ISBN 0143001132), Best Australian Humorous Writing (with Andrew O’Keefe, MUP, 2008), and An Account of Vizard’s Experiences attending the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998, Two Weeks in Lilliput (Penguin, 1998; ISBN 0140279830); Quick forward, the book: the entire history of three thousand years of television (ISBN 014013400X); and “Tonight Live with Steven Vizard’s” top seven lists.
Vizard’s one-man play Coles Amusing Picture Man, in light of the existence of the erratic Victorian book shop Edward William Cole, was performed by AFI grant-winning entertainer Norman Kaye. Last Man Standing, a substantial new theater work with music that Vizard co-wrote with composer Paul Grabowsky, was produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company as their production for the 2015 Anzac and Gallipoli commemorations. Additionally, with Grabowsky he composed the tune cycle The Space Between for soprano Emma Matthews in 2018.
A University of Melbourne Writers Fellowship and an Australia Council grant for poetry have been given to Vizard. In 1985, he received a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Feature Film Screenplay; and won Writers Guild Awards for Best Comedy Television in 1989, 1990, 1992, and 1993 as a co-writer of the film.
Steve Vizard Company
Vizard and fellow writer and producer Andrew Knight founded the independent production firm Artist Services in 1989. Vizard sold half of his company Artist Services to John Fairfax Holdings in 1995 for an estimated A$9 million (1995). Vizard sold his remaining 50% stake in Artist Services to the UK-based media conglomerate Granada for a reported $25 million in 2000. In 1996, he was appointed a director of Telstra, a post he held until his choice to retire on September 17, 2000, and not run for re-election to the board. Vizard was the chairman of the Victorian big Events Company, which brings big athletic, arts, and cultural events to Victoria and Australia, from 2001 until 2005.
Steve Vizard Career
Vizard was a student at Melbourne University who performed in the Le Law Revue in 1982 and the Archi (Architects’) Revue in 1976. He wrote and performed in more than a dozen productions from 1976 to 1982, including The Last Laugh and the Flying Trapeze. From 1979 to 1985, he was the voice-over person for the hustling show Punter to Punter. In 1985, he co-composed and created an element film, The Piece Part, which was selected for a Journalists’ Society grant for Best Component Film Screenplay. On the television sketch comedy show The Eleventh Hour in 1987, he served as both the show’s head writer and a performer.
In 1987, he acted in the primary Melbourne Worldwide Satire Celebration and was one of the hosts of the Parody Celebration Occasion in 1991. He hosted his own nightly national talk show, Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, from 1990 to 1993. Bob Hope had also won three more Logies as Australia’s most popular television presenter, as well as four Television Society Awards, a Variety Club Award for Best Comedy Artiste, and a Rolling Stone magazine Award for Best Television Performer. He had interviewed over a thousand guests, including musical stars like Phil Collins and entertainment legends like Bob Hope, Audrey Hepburn, Mickey Rooney, and Kirk Douglas. He hosted the Logie Awards in 1992, the Bali Bombing Memorial Concert in 1995, and the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War Two Concert on national television. He performed Saint-Saens’ Carnival Of The Animals with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1998.
He and longtime collaborator Michael Veitch reprised one of their most well-known roles in a sketch at the 2006 Logie Awards. Starting around 2009, he has showed up as a customary on different TV programs, including Tens Talkin’ ‘Session Your Age, Nine’s Today Show, and An Ongoing Issue. He has likewise showed up in a normal job in Mick Molloy’s Foxtel parody series, The Jokesters. In July 2011, Vizard showed up in the TV film Beaconsfield, playing the late an hour columnist Richard Carleton. For his outstanding contribution to the film and television industry, he was up for a lifetime achievement award in 2010.
He was a regular panelist on Channel Ten’s 7 PM Project and The Project from 2010 to 2013. He participated as a panelist and interviewer on the contentious 7 PM Project interview with Kim, a schoolgirl who was involved in the St. Kilda sex scandal. He made regular appearances as an “Agony Uncle” in ABC’s primetime series The Agony of Christmas, The Agony of Modern Manners, and The Agony in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He contributed to the ABC broadcast history of Australian comedy and was one of the lead actors in the Tropfest-winning 2014 film Granny Smith. He took the stage in the 2022 event Roast of Paul Hogan, a celebrity tribute to the Australian actor and comedian Paul Hogan.