Overview

• Szeps became a household name as Robert Beare in Mother and Son, the ABC sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1994 and was later voted Australia’s greatest TV program.
• Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2021, he withdrew from performance and entered residential care in 2023.
• Born in 1943 to Polish Holocaust survivors in a Swiss refugee camp, he migrated to Australia in 1951 and trained in Method acting at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre.
• Over a five-decade career, he received the Order of Australia Medal in 2001 and earned acclaim across stage, film and television.
• He is survived by his wife Mary Ann Severne, their two sons and four grandchildren, with funeral plans pending.