This article is about the Australian author. For the 16th century English landowner, see John Kingsmill (knight).
John Kingsmill is an Australian author, one time actor and amateur historian. He was born in Sydney in 1920 and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He achieved notice for his performance as Des Nolan ("THE GIG APE") in Rusty Bugles, the controversial 1948 play by Sumner Locke Elliott. During the early 1970's he worked as a senior advertising copywriter at the George Patterson advertising agency Sydney office.
Bibliography
- No Hero: memoirs of a raw recruit in World War II, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1994 ISBN 0-86806-535-8
- Australian Street: a boy's eye view of the 1920s and 1930s
- The Innocent: Growing up in Bondi in the 1920s and 1930s
- Sydney: The Harbour City.
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