After arriving in England, he was temporarily adopted by a family in Liverpool, but, more fortunately than many other Jewish refugees,[2] was soon reunited with his parents, younger brother and older sister in Salisbury, where he was to grow up and where his father started a sausage casing business.
Having gained an enthusiasm for film, he wrote to Sir Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios, who offered him a job as a runner.
When Capitol Records released it in the US as a single, it went to number one, displacing The Monkees' "I'm a Believer," and making the Seekers the first Australian group to top the US charts.
[4] Plaschkes met his future wife, Louise Stein, at an after shooting party for The Homecoming, and they married in 1975, later having a daughter, Valli.
On Valentine's Day 2005, Plaschkes, as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had just attended a West End screening of Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven, which had been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.