William Rushton b. 1937

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
British cartoonist and comic actor who worked in Australian during the mid 1960s.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
William Rushton
Birth date
c.1937
Death date
11 December 1996
Death place
None
Death note
Also given as January 1997 in some sources.
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
  • London, England, UK
Other Occupation
  • Actor
Active Period
  • c.1960- c.1969
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist and actor, was a founding member of London’s Private Eye where he worked before coming to Sydney for a few years in the 1960s. He worked on the Bulletin (ill. Rolfe) and on Oz . Two 1966 cartoons for the Bulletin are ill. Walsh 1966. Rushton wrote and illustrated The “I didn’t know the way to King’s Cross when I first came here but look at me now” Book (London & Balmain: Four Square & Tudor Press, 1966). Claimed to have returned Tony Hancock’s ashes to Britain in an Air France bag after Hancock’s death in Sydney in 1968. He was in BBC TV’s That was the week that was ( TW3 ) in 1962-3 [and contributed cartoons to TW3 book] and in the film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines .

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Les Tanner
1927
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Citations:
  • Walsh, (1966), No Holts Barred, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.)
  • Rolfe, P., (1979), The journalistic javelin - an illustrated history of the Bulletin, (Place: Gladesville, NSW : Wildcat Press, [distributed by Golden Press])
  • Rushton, William, (1966), The "I didn't know the way to King's Cross when I first came here but look at me now" Book, (Place: London, England, UK; & Balmain, NSW : Four Square & Tudor Press)
  • Bulletin
  • Private Eye, (Place: London, England, UK)
  • (1997), Imprint 28
  • The Australian
  • (1963), [The book of] That was the week that was, (Place: London, England, UK)
  • (24 June 1847), Sydney Morning Herald, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Lewisohn, Mark, (2003), bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy, (Place: London, England, UK : BBC)