Perth South

Distinguished and Famous people from Perth South

🎬 Sam Worthington

Sam Worthington grew up at Rockingham before drama study at John Curtin school in Fremantle and the National Institute of Dramatic Art. A period as a bricklayer’s apprentice preceded the acting career that eventually brought Avatar and international recognition. In recalling his childhood, he said a major Hollywood film had seemed far beyond anything he expected. The local beginning makes that progression concrete: schooling, work and training came before the giant screens and elaborate digital worlds. His career also included Australian theatre, television and films, rather than beginning with the blockbuster that made him globally familiar.

🥁 Bon Scott

Bon Scott moved with his family to Fremantle in 1956 and attended local schools before entering working life. His early music included side drumming with the Coastal Scottish Pipe Band and later playing in the Spektors and Valentines. A mechanics apprenticeship, store work and postal duties sat beside those performances. The AC/DC years came after this apprenticeship in both employment and music. The familiar hard-rock voice had an unexpectedly disciplined percussion background: Scott was an accomplished young pipe-band drummer before he became a frontman. Fremantle retains his memory through his grave and a waterfront statue.