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'''Roger Cardwell''' was a South Australian television and radio personality. |
'''Roger Arthur Cardwell''' (c. 1932 – 25 October 2017) was a South Australian television and radio personality. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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Cardwell was perhaps best known as compere and presenter of the TV shows ''Country and Western Hour'' for Channel Nine and ''Country Style'' for Channel Seven in the 1960s. He toured live shows featuring favourite performers to country areas{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article187062523 |title=Country and Western Show |newspaper=[[Victor Harbour Times]] |volume=52 |issue=60 |location=South Australia |date=8 January 1965 |accessdate=24 April 2026 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} and in 1996 was inducted into the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 for his pioneering work. |
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Roger Cardwell, a giant of Adelaide’s golden age of television and radio, has died aged 85. |
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October 26, 2019 - 1:57PM |
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Sunday Mail (SA) |
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Roger Cardwell was a man of many talents. |
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| ⚫ | Cardwell survived two heart attacks and sometime around 2012 moved into Resthaven Malvern nursing home, where he died from lung cancer. |
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Much-loved presenter, actor, reporter and musician Roger Cardwell has died aged 85, surrounded by his family. |
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A giant of Adelaide’s music and media scene, the former television and radio presenter passed away at a nursing home on Saturday morning succumbing to cancer. |
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==Personal== |
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Cardwell became a household name in a five-decade media career which saw him front news bulletins for all major Adelaide commercial television networks. |
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The former journalist was also a newsreader for 5AD-FM and 5DN from 1985 to 1998. |
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His ex-wife and former Channel 9 weather presenter, Sue Cardwell, announced Cardwell’s death on Facebook saying that he “lives on in all of us”. |
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“We were all blessed to be here in time to say goodbye and to laugh and cry together as we shared our memories as a family,” the former Here’s Humphrey presenter wrote. |
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“We sang and hummed together in harmony in his final hours.” |
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Roger Cardwell with former 5AD colleague Jeremy Cordeaux. |
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Roger Cardwell with former 5AD colleague Jeremy Cordeaux. |
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Sue and Roger Cardwell picture in 2004. |
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Sue and Roger Cardwell picture in 2004. |
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Cardwell’s award-winning singer-songwriter son Jeb said the family “felt gifted to be by his bedside at the time...as we shared our memories as a family”. |
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“So sad and yet so beautiful,” he said. |
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Jeb and his sister, Triple J Unearthed winner Abbie, were children from Cardwell’s previous marriage to Wendy and have followed in their father’s musical footsteps. |
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Sue Cardwell, who was Roger’s fifth wife, has three daughters Vanessa, Chelsea and Rani from a previous marriage. |
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They, along with Cardwell’s son Simon - from his first marriage - were also by Cardwell’s side when he died. |
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In the 60s Cardwell was host and performer for Nine’s national TV show Country and Western Hour and Channel 7’s Country Style. He was inducted into the Australian Contry Music Hall of Fame in 1996 as a pioneer of country music television. |
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Roger Cardwell with television colleague Gail Spiro. |
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Roger Cardwell with television colleague Gail Spiro. |
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Roger and Wendy Cardwell with their children Jeb and Abbie. |
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Roger and Wendy Cardwell with their children Jeb and Abbie. |
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Colleague and friend Greg Clark, who runs a production company, said Cardwell had moved into the Resthaven Malvern nursing home about five years ago due to poor health. |
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“He really enjoyed his time there and was involved in reading and entertainment of guests,” he said. |
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After his newsreading career, Cardwell was a sought-after voiceover man for radio and TV commercials. |
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Clark said he would pick up Cardwell from the nursing home and drive him over to his studio after Cardwell’s poor health stopped him driving. |
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“The last commercial I did with him was in 2016 before his health really deteriorated — he was a bloody trooper,” he said. |
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Cardwell had survived two heart attacks. He was diagnosed with blood cancer two months ago and during scans doctors also discovered he had lung cancer. |
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| ⚫ | {{cite web|url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/south-australian-tv-and-radio-legend-roger-cardwell-dead-at-85/news-story/fddcf623153e6040a3dbe3fbcf9a697e |title=South Australian TV and radio legend Roger Cardwell dead at 85 |author=Renato Castello |date=26 October 2019|access-date=24 April 2026}} |
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