Norman Coburn

Norman Coburn (born 6 March 1937) is an Australian actor best known for his television serial and soap opera roles, he started his early career in theatre, film and television in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s, after quitting acting for some years and working as a restaurateur, he returned to Australia and became a staple of the small screen starting from the early 1980s. He became famous as High School headmaster Donald Fisher in the early years of soap opera Home and Away, as one of 16 original cast members, he appeared from the pilot episode in 1988 until 2003, and reprised the character making brief sporadic returns between 2005 and 2008. Norman retired in 2008 (except for a rare TV series appearance in 2019 (see below entry in filmography) with H&A co-star Debra Lawrence),and he lives a quiet life on Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia. Coburn has had numerous roles in theatre, including in Shakespeare, with tour's of Twelfth Night and Hamlet, as well as Death of a Salesman and The Diary of Anne Frank as well as worked as a playwright with production Married Together.[1]