He appeared in the rural series Bellbird as Charlie Cousins, in which he was best known for the scene in which he falls to his death from a wheat silo.
He shared the bill with the Beatles, singing a song from the musical in a subsequently memorable edition of The Ed Sullivan Show.
A regular character on the show from August 1967, Ramsay left in May 1968 to take the role of Fagin in a Japanese stage production of Oliver!.
The show's producers decided to kill off his character, with Cousens falling off a wheat silo, staging what has been described as "one of the most-watched and best-remembered moments in Australian TV history",[3] fans wrote letters protesting about his death and even sent flowers to his funeral.
[4] This refocusing on Lawson as a sophisticated short-story writer and diarist, rather than as a 'bush poet', radically altered Australia's view of their favourite icon.
The production won the Australian Arts Award In the early 1980s Ramsay was commissioned to create a new solo show celebrating the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, India's Nobel Prize-winning poet: titled Borderland.
His new solo play The Accidental Mystic, high times on the Indian ashram trail, written by his wife Barbara Bossert, opened at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre in 1995, after seasons in Sydney and the Edinburgh Festival.