Harvey Shore

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Harvey Shore, Dip A (Mil), ADM is the son of Portia Geach Memorial Art Award-winning artist Ivy Shore. He was educated at Cranbrook School Sydney and at Marist Brothers Agricultural College Campbelltown, and received three 'A' levels and three 'B' levels when he won his Leaving Certificate, after which he was offered a Teacher's Scholarship. But he had already won a coveted scholarship to the Royal Military College Duntroon and he chose to accept that. He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in January 1965 in the same class as General Peter Cosgrove and in 1968 graduated as a First Lieutenant into Australian Intelligence Corps. He served in the Australian Regular Army until 1972, and then began a career as a writer/producer in film and television. His work in film and TV has won five Logie Awards, two AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards, two International Broadcasting (Nagoya) Awards, a 'TV Star' Award, and the gold award for first prize at the Asian Broadcasting Union Festival, among many other awards.

Harvey's extensive career now exceeds 3,000 hours of broadcast credits, including work on more than 30 feature films and over 60 television shows - in roles from scriptwriter to executive producer.

He studied scriptwriting with the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), with Oscar-winning writer Elizabeth Kata (A Patch of Blue) and with Australian drama scriptwriter Harold Lander. He is a past Chairman of the Associates Committee of the AWG, and he taught scriptwriting both there and at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC-TV - where he started his career as a writer for Behind The News and later returned as an Executive Producer of that same show). He also lectured on scriptwriting and producing in Australia and in Japan, and tutored in scriptwriting for Thomson Education Direct. He has been a script reader for the Australian Film Commission, and for Village Roadshow Limited. He has been a lead writer and a script editor (as well as a producer and executive producer) for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has written and produced literally hundreds of shows from his first effort in 1972, to his most recent documentary “Life Under Adolf Hitler” for History Films. He has worked on over 30 feature films for Village Roadshow Corporation and Greater Union. He has produced TV shows for all Australian networks except SBS (Special Broadcasting Service).

His writing and production credits (now exceeding 3,000 hours) include:

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TV Series Simon Townsend's Wonder World “Major Cousens” (feature film). Legendary soap opera Number 96. “Jog’s Trot” (short film). Award-winning ABC documentary “Project Tiger”. “Matchless” (feature film). ABC-TV series “Behind The News”. Many ABC-TV documentaries. TV Current Affairs series “Willesee At Seven”. Many Village/Roadshow movies TV Special “Chance & Coincidence”. TV Series, “The Way They Live”. TV series “David Smith’s Earthwatch” TV series “The Afternoon Show”. TV Series “Bright Ideas”. TV series “Ground Zero”. TV Series “Help Your Neighbour”. TV series “Saturday at Rick’s”. TV Special “The Guinness Olympics” TV series “TVTV”. TV Series “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos”, The Ansett Entertainment Channel, TV drama series “G.P.” TV series “Newsreel”, Radio series “Video Biz”. Radio series “Around The World”. TV Series “Burke’s Backyard”. TV series pilot “Moneyspinners”. TV Series “Good Morning Sydney” TV series pilot “Carter & Stuff.” TV Series “Australian Studies” TV series pilot “Open Minds”. TV series “Mathsbreak” Radio series “The Way It Is”. TV docos “Fishermen of the South Pacific”, & “Kula – Argonauts of the West Pacific”. Radio Series “Mark Twain’s Australia.” TV Series “New Wonder World!” TV series “You Say The Word”. TV doco “Antarctica”. TV doco: “Rockets”. TV doco: “The IC Engine” TV doco: “Concorde and supersonic flight”. TV doco: “Whales & Whaling” TV doco: “Zeppelins”. TV doco: “Two Koreas” TV doco: “Japanese Coastal Fishing”. TV doco: “Paris Changes” TV doco: “History of Suez Canal”. TV doco: “Uganda & Amin” TV doco: “Cane Toads”. TV doco: “Dinosaurs” TV doco: “Astronomy”. TV doco: “Wooden Cars” TV doco: “Russian Space program”. TV doco: “Kites” TV doco: “The Domino Theory”. TV doco: “Man In Space” TV doco: “Aristotle Onassis”. TV doco: “Fisheries Research” TV doco: “Endangered Wildlife”. TV doco: “American Indians” TV doco: “Art of Assassination”. TV doco: “Rocket Men” TV doco: “Los Muchachos Circus”. TV doco: “Hang Gliding” TV doco: “Gallipoli and ANZAC”. TV doco: “The Western Front” TV doco: “Life Under Adolf Hitler”. TV doco: “Snake Charmers” TV doco: “History of Ideas - Gravity”. TV doco: “The Valley of The Kings” Series of 6 TV docos: “The Taj Mahal”. TV doco: “Keoladeo National Park”. In addition, he has written and directed TV magazine shows being filmed on location in many parts of Australia, and in New Zealand, Fiji, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, England, the USA, Greece, France, Monaco, Italy, Egypt, Dubai and the UAE, and many times in India (his favourite film location).

Harvey Shore has worked with stars from Brooke Shields to Graham Kennedy, from Mike Willesee to Simon Townsend. HE has written and produced TV shows throughout Australia, and on location in the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Fiji, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, France, Monaco, Italy, Egypt, Dubai and the UAE, and many times in India (his favourite film location).

Harvey has also written, produced and hosted several radio series for ABC Radio and for commercial syndicated radio networks (such as the long-running syndicated video review program Videobiz.)

Harvey Shore is also a top-rated PR Consultant, his credits include Public Relations Manager for Village Roadshow Limited, The American Broadcasting Company (Australasia), The Maritime Services Board of NSW, The Television Shopping Network, and OB Productions. His PR clients have included ABC-TV, the Greater Union Organisation, Kosciusko/Thredbo, Bay Books, Pan Books, Good Morning Sydney, Wonder World!, Qantas, Air NZ, Air India, British Airways, Government of India Tourist Office, Fiji Travel Bureau, Vestron Video, REP Films, Newmont Television, Roadshow Coote and Carroll, Cumberland Press, and ROC Oil Company Limited.

Harvey is the author of two books: "From The Quay" (University of NSW Press), and "G.P.-The Book of the TV Series" (ABC Enterprises). In addition to being a tutor in Scriptwriting and Public Relations for the world’s largest distance learning company Thomson Education Direct, Harvey is also a regular columnist for Encore Magazine, the film and television industry’s journal of record, and a consultant for several TV production companies.