Ron Shand

Australian dancer, comedian, stage, film and television actor (1906-1993). The son of an acrobat and equestrienne, Ron Shand started out in the circus at 14 and made his professional vaudeville debut in Perth as Ronnie McMurty. Later, as Ron Shand (aka Wacko Shand), he established his comedic credentials with Harry Clay and the Tivoli circuit. Shand worked an act his first wife, Laurel Streeter, and dancer Eddie Clifford in the 1920s and with second wife Letty Crayden appeared in musical comedy, revue throughout Australia during the 1930s and 1940s. He later tuned to legitimate theatre, including Shakespeare, and became a television star in the 1970s through his role as Herb Evans in No 96.