Actors Portraying Deadly Earnest
- Ralph Baker (ATV-0 Melbourne)
- Ian Bannerman (TEN-10 Sydney)
- Max Bostock (TVW-7 Perth 1961)
- Hedley Cullen (SAS-10 Adelaide 1967-1974, 1975, 1978; TVW-7 Perth 1975)
- Shane Porteous (TVQ-0 Brisbane)
Max Bostock was appointed CEO of TVW-7 in 1977, received an MBE in 1980 and became Executive Director of Network 10 before retiring in 1986. Little else is known of Bannerman, who is believed to be dead. Hedley Cullen died in 1994 and no footage was known to exist of him as Deadly Earnest until SAS-7 (formerly SAS-10) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2005 when three clips were discovered while researching a television special. One clip of Baker introducing a movie exists, and in mid-2010 footage of him in character was recovered from a current affairs show held by the National Film and Sound Archive. No footage is known to exist of Shane Porteous' version of Deadly Earnest or his successor in 1968, Professor MacCarb as played by John Dommett. A Facebook group has been set up devoted to the hosts, and is associated with some new research.
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