{"id":19055,"date":"2025-07-24T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19055\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:36:08","slug":"australian-actor-henri-szeps-star-of-sitcom-mother-and-son-dies-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19055\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian actor Henri Szeps, star of sitcom Mother and Son, dies aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Legendary award-winning Australian actor Henri Szeps has died, aged 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Szeps is best known for his turn as dentist Robert Beare in the ABC sitcom Mother and Son, a role he played from 1984 to 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">His TV credits also include Number 96, A Country Practice, All Saints, Stingers, and mini-series Vietnam opposite Nicole Kidman, as well as dozens of feature film and stage appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He collected countless acting prizes and received an Order of Australia Medal in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Szeps has lived in a residential care facility for the past two years, after revealing he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cHis decline from Alzheimer\u2019s was largely peaceful, and Henri retained his sense of wonder and joie de vivre until the end,\u201d his family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He is survived by wife Mary, two sons and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-legend-bert-newtons-grandsons-follow-in-his-footsteps--c-19440687\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>TV legend Bert Newton\u2019s grandsons follow in his footsteps <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/ozzy-osbournes-secret-kids-pay-tribute-to-rocker-following-death--c-19460287\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s \u2018secret\u2019 kids pay tribute to rocker following death <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary award-winning Australian actor Henri Szeps has died, aged 81. Szeps is best known for his turn as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,44,14179,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-19055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sunrise","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}