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Greg Poppleton (born 19 October 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian 1920s and 1930s-style singer, band leader, actor and radio broadcaster.

Career
After leaving Fort Street High School, Poppleton studied Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Mass Communications at the University of Technology Sydney. He began doing talks and music shows on community station 2SER and left engineering to be a sound producer at SBS Radio. At SBS he hosted the network's first English language music and talks program and was the first SBS voice heard in Australia's northern-most capital, Darwin. While at SBS he took up stage, film and TV acting, beginning in commercials, and formed his first 1920s - 1930s style band.

Poppleton's passion for the music of the 1920s - 1930s started at age three after seeing Louis Armstrong on TV. Poppleton leads a jazz deco band and 1920s dance orchestra that has played for festivals in Australia and New Zealand. A lyric baritone, Poppleton "captures that decade's vocal style (1920s-30s) to perfection." Mixes of his four albums have more than one million total YouTube views. His music has been played on commercial radio.

He is an actor in the movies Backtrack, Dirty Deeds and Moulin Rouge! in scenes opposite Adrien Brody, John Goodman and Nicole Kidman. He is also in the feature films Footy Legends, Hunt Angels, Fat Pizza and Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. On TV he has appeared in Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Underbelly: The Golden Mile and All Saints. He told the story of 'The King of Ragtime' Scott Joplin in the one-man stage show with nine-piece ragtime orchestra, “The Life and Music of Scott Joplin”.

Poppleton is an award-winning jazz broadcaster. His weekly Phantom Dancer show is sent to radio stations across Australia on the Community Radio Network.

Awards

 * 1989 BASF/PBAA (Public Broadcasting Association of Australia) Runner Up Award for Excellence for "Registered Clubs of NSW: a musical legacy"


 * 1991 BASF/PBAA (Public Broadcasting Association of Australia) Runner Up Award for Excellence for "42 Years of TV"


 * 2007 CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) Awards Winner Excellence in Music Programming sponsored by the PPCA for "The Phantom Dancer"


 * 2016 CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) Awards Finalist Excellence in Music Programming sponsored by the PPCA for "The Phantom Dancer"

Discography

 * The Phantom Dancer: 14 Songs of the Swing Era in Radio Review (2006)


 * Doin' The Charleston (2013)


 * Sweet Sue (2014)


 * Back In Your Own Backyard (2016)