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
