Edmund Patrick Twohill (22 October 1915 – 7 October 1989) was a New Zealand actor and radio announcer who worked extensively in Australian film, radio and theatre, often under the name John Sherwood.
Twohill went to England aged 21 and was cast in second lead in a boxing film with John Mills called Only Pain is Real. It was cancelled due to the war and he returned hom.[1]
He is best known for his role in the classic war film in Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940). After this he took the name John Sherwood.[2] He said he did this to avoid confusion.[3]
Twohill had a long association with radio station 2SM as an announcer.[4]
^"John Sherwood T.V. star". Daily Mirror. No. 4196. New South Wales, Australia. 17 November 1954. p. 40 (Cable Edition 2). Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^Australasian Radio Relay League. (7 December 1940), "Almost in Confidence", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720917353, retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Trove
^Australasian Radio Relay League. (16 November 1940), "NOM-DE-RADIO?", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720752081, retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Trove
^""No Greater Love."". The Catholic Press. No. 2090. New South Wales, Australia. 10 April 1941. p. 27. Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.