Film and TV legend Charles 'Bud' Tingwell dies

Legendary Australian actor Charles 'Bud' Tingwell has died in a Melbourne hospital after a battle with prostate cancer.
His agent confirmed the 86-year-old iconic star of The Castle and TV cop show Homicide passed away this morning.
Fellow actor and family friend Marty Fields paid tribute to Tingwell this morning.
"Bud, gosh, he just had a fantastic impact on everybody that he dealt with,'' he told Radio 3AW.
The Working Dog production company introduced Tingwell to a younger generation through The D-Generation and The Castle.
Rob Sitch said Tingwell had told him one of his "secrets of life'' was "saying yes'', because it led to new people and new experiences.
Sitch said Tingwell had appeared in good spirits when he visited him in hospital last week.
"He foxed me. He was sitting up and he had a film script and we were talking about work ... it was just incredible that his spirits were so up at that stage (of life),'' he told 3AW.
Tingwell was born in the Sydney beachside suburb of Coogee on January 3, 1923.
It was not until after his mother died that he discovered why he had been nicknamed Bud - when she was pregnant, friends at the Coogee Surf Club asked her "what's budding in there?'' which became "how's the bud?''.
Tingwell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia when he was employed at Sydney radio station 2CH as a cadet, then joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1941 and was sent to the Middle East as a photographic reconnaissance pilot.
He entered the film industry in the 1950s, playing the lead in feature film Always Another Dawn. While he was wooed by Hollywood, he chose to stay in Australia working in film, radio and theatre.
Tingwell and his wife Audrey moved to London for 17 years in 1956, the actor scoring roles in TV and radio series, four Miss Marple films with Dame Margaret Rutherford and theatre productions.
He returned to Australia in 1973 when Hector Crawford offered him the lead role of Inspector Reg Lawson in the TV series Homicide. Tingwell went on to produce and direct other major Australian TV productions, including The Sullivans, Cop Shop, The Flying Doctors and Prisoner.
Audrey Tingwell, who he described as ``the love of my life'' on his personal website, died in 1996, shortly before their 45th wedding anniversary.
He credits the team from Working Dog productions - including Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner and Santo Cilauro - for saving him in the weeks following her death by offering him a role in their film The Castle.
"It turned out to be the greatest therapeutic experience for me,'' he said on his website of his role as a barrister.
Tingwell and Audrey had two children, son Christopher and daughter Virginia Tingwell, who is also an actress.
He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the performing arts as an actor, director, producer, and to the community.