Donald Richard Spencer OAM (born 22 March 1941), is an Australian
children's television presenter, singer-songwriter, guitarist and
musician. He had a long-running role on Play School on both the
Australian version (1968â€"99) and the United Kingdom version
(1972â€"88), one of only two presenters to work on both versions.In
March 1963 his first single, "Fireball" â€" the theme tune to a UK TV
science fiction series, Fireball XL5 â€" reached No. 32 on the UK
Singles Chart. In 2002 Spencer established the Australian Children's
Music Foundation. On Australia Day (26 January) 2007 he was awarded a
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) with the citation "for service
to children's music and television as a songwriter and performer, and
through the establishment of the Australian Children's Music
Foundation". Spencer married Julie Horsfall, they have two children:
Dean, a musician; and Danielle, an actress and singer, who married
actor Russell Crowe in 2003.Donald Richard Spencer was born on 22
March 1941 the son of John Henry and Lillian May in Tamworth. Spencer
attended Tamworth High School, he played hockey as a teenager and
competed in the Australian championships. At 17 he left Australia and
travelled to Africa where, in his 20s, he trained with the Kenyan
hockey team trying out for the Olympics. A chance meeting with
locally-born, singer-songwriter, Roger Whittaker, in Nairobi inspired
Spencer to buy a guitar and start his musical career. Don Spencer Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter