Ray Meagher

Ray Meagher (born 4 July 1944) is an Australian actor. He has appeared regularly in Australian film and television since the mid 1970s, and is notable as the longest continuing performer in an Australian television role, as Alf Stewart on Home and Away. He has played this role since the very first episode back in 1988. Ray has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest serving actor in a serial. Meagher was born and raised on a shee... more

Ray Meagher (born 4 July 1944) is an Australian actor. He has appeared regularly in Australian film and television since the mid 1970s, and is notable as the longest continuing performer in an Australian television role, as Alf Stewart on Home and Away. He has played this role since the very first episode back in 1988. Ray has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest serving actor in a serial. Meagher was born and raised on a sheep and cattle station in Queensland, before attending a boarding school on the Gold Coast from the age of nine. He became a keen sportsman at high school, Marist College Ashgrove in Brisbane, representing the school at a number of sports including rugby union, a sport which he ultimately played to state level. He first appeared on television as host of the folk music programme Around Folk. His first regular acting work on television was in soap opera Number 96, briefly appearing as the character Fred Shrimpton in 1977. His early film roles... less