He may not be a household name, but John Flaus is certainly a household voice, and face, after decades of acting and voiceover work. | karlkwin
You may not know the name, but chances are you recognise the face from some of his 134 screen roles.
“It was the 18th of January, 2011,” he says, the day etched firmly into his memory banks. “I was sitting on the back verandah and I’d rolled a smoke, had one, rolled another one, looked at it and thought, ‘I don’t have to light this yet’. Put it aside. I kept it for years. It got lost in the move to this house five or six years ago, but I’d kept it all that time til then.″
“I still feel like I belong,” he says, and there’s plenty of evidence to that effect. The day after we meet, a car is due to come and take him to Melbourne for a small role – “I haven’t seen a script; I think it’s for a commercial” – and at the end of the week he’s due in a recording studio in nearby Chewton for a voiceover. On June 26, he’s launching his second volume of poetry at the Northern Arts Hotel in town. “I devised a poetic form, which is like the haiku in some respects.
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