| Kelton Pell | |
| Birth Place: | Western Australia, Australia |
| Occupation: | Actor |
Kelton Pell is a Noongar Aboriginal Australian stage, TV and film actor, best known for his role as the court liaison officer, Sam Wallan, in the SBS legal drama The Circuit set in north-western Australia. Pell is from Western Australia.
Pell has been a stage presence in the theatre since 1985, performing for the Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, the Black Swan Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company. Many of these performances were of plays which grew from Indigenous themes.[1]
In 2000 Pell, along with Ningali Lawford and Phil Thomson, wrote a show for the Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre called Solid, whose premiere performance was at the Perth International Arts Festival. Because of its sensitive Indigenous subject matter, before the premiere the play was performed for, and to the approval of, 2000 Indigenous Australians.[2]
Pell performed in several productions of Bloodland, a play directed by the Stephen Page with a Romeo and Juliet-type of story. The play features traditional Aboriginal languages and Pidgin English, as well as song and dance.[3]
He has also acted in performances of Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Pell has acted in the children's TV show The Adventures of the Bush Patrol and the SBS series The Circuit, a legal drama set in the Kimberley. In 2012 he starred in an episode of the TV series Redfern Now as a well-to-do Aboriginal Australian man living in Redfern, Sydney, whose life seems to be exemplary, though he has been receiving government benefit money fraudulently.[4]
Pell in 2022 appeared in the ABC drama ,[5] and has since appeared in Stan Australia movie Windcatcher.[6]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Blackfellas | Willice | ||
| 2001 | One Night the Moon | Albert Yang | ||
| 2002 | Confessions Of A Headhunter | Vinnie, the artist | Short film | |
| 2002 | Australian Rules | Tommy Red | ||
| 2003 | Cold Turkey | Old Man | ||
| 2007 | The Turtle | Pop | Short film | |
| 2007 | September | Michael Parker | ||
| 2009 | Stone Bros. | Hector | ||
| 2009 | Last Ride | Ranger Lyall | ||
| 2009 | Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun | Uncle Peter | Short film | |
| 2009 | Bran Nue Dae | Mean Drunk | ||
| 2011 | Mad Bastards | Mad Dog | ||
| 2015 | Redfern Now: Promise Me | Raymond | Television film | |
| 2015 | Looking for Grace | Detective | ||
| 2016 | Durack | |||
| 2017 | Three Summers | Jack | ||
| 2017 | Nobody's Child | Jimmy | Short film | |
| 2020 | The Xrossing | Bobbie | ||
| 2021 | Buckley's Chance | Jules | ||
| 2024 | Windcatcher | Pop Collins |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | The Adventures of the Bush Patrol | Wazza | ||
| 1998 | Minty | Jack | Episode: "If I Were You" | |
| 2007–2010 | The Circuit | Sam Wallman | 12 episodes | |
| 2011 | Cloudstreet | Bob Crab | 3 episodes | |
| 2012 | Redfern Now | Raymond | Episode: "Raymond" | |
| 2013 | Hard Rock Medical | Uncle Albert | Episode: "Other Side of the Fence" | |
| 2014 | The Moodys | Fred | Episode: "Australia Day" | |
| 2014 | The Gods of Wheat Street | Odin Freeburn | 6 episodes | |
| 2018 | Pine Gap | Paul Dupain | 6 episodes | |
| 2019-2020 | The Heights (Australian TV series) | Uncle Max | 48 episodes | |
| 2020 | Itch | Barry | 2 episodes | |
| 2021-22 | Firebite | Jalingbirri | 5 episodes | |
| 2022 | MaveriX | Vic Simmons | 10 episodes | |
| 2022 | Jack Swan | 3 episodes |
Pell has won the following awards: