Limelight has learned of the recent death of Sydney actor John Paramor. He was 80.

Raised in Kings Cross, Paramor graduated from NIDA in the late 1960s, and enjoyed a 30-year acting career in stage and TV. Among the many plays he appeared in were the original Australian production of The Rocky Horror Show (he was Brad to Jane Harders’ Janet, opposite Reg Livermore’s Frank N Furter) and the premiere production (1970) of The Legend of King O’Malley in the Jane Street Theatre, in which he played the flamboyant title character in a stellar cast including Rex Cramphorn, Kate Fitzpatrick, Robyn Nevin, Gillian Jones and Nico Lathouris.

John Paramor and Jane Harders at the 2014 Sydney Theatre Awards

Paramor was involved in productions by some of Sydney’s leading theatre companies in the 1970s, including Nimrod, Marian Street and the Independent Theatre. His extensive theatre credits included the Australian tours of Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Lauren Bacall, and the musical Big River. He also played roles in the Sydney Opera House Trust’s staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra (staged to celebrate the American bicentenary in 1976) and British director William...