Sandy Harbutt (1941 – 21 November 2020) was an Australian actor, writer and director, best known for the outlaw biker film, Stone (1974) starring his friend Ken Shorter.
[1] Harbutt was born in Randwick, New South Wales and studied law before turning to advertising and then acting.
An early television appearance was with Shorter, as a pair of Bondi surfies who harass the Wells children in a 1967 color film episode of Adventures of the Seaspray.
He had a regular role in the shortlived 1970 Australian TV series The Long Arm.
[3] After making Stone he largely dropped out of screen acting, although he gave retrospective interviews for documentaries about the film and its place in the renaissance of Australian cinema.