Harvey Shore
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| Born: |  Sydney, Australia. |
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| Occupation: | Actor, script writer and producer |
| Website: | Getting A Life |
Harvey Shore, Dip A (Mil), ADM is an Australian film and television actor, writer, and producer. He has won numerous awards and spent over 3,000 hours on the air. Shore is also a published author.
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[edit] Early life
Shore 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 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.
[edit] Film and television career
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).
Shore 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.)
[edit] Other work
Additionally, Shore is a 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.
Shore has written two books and works as a tutor in Scriptwriting and Public Relations for the distance learning company Thomson Education Direct, Shore 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.
[edit] Television credits
- Simon Townsend's Wonder World (TV series)
- Number 96
- Behind The News
- Project Tiger
- Chance & Coincidence (special)
- The Way They Live
- David Smith’s Earthwatch
- Willesee At Seven
- The Afternoon Show
- Bright Ideas
- Ground Zero
- Help Your Neighbour
- Saturday at Rick’s
- The Guinness Olympics (special)
- TVTV
- Australia’s Funniest Home Videos
- The Ansett Entertainment Channel
- G.P.
- Newsreel
- Burke’s Backyard
- Moneyspinners
- Good Morning Sydney
- Carter & Stuff
- Australian Studies
- Open Minds
- Mathsbreak
- Fishermen of the South Pacific
- Kula – Argonauts of the West Pacific
- New Wonder World!
- You Say The Word
- Antarctica
- Rockets
- The IC Engine
- Concorde and supersonic flight
- Whales & Whaling
- Zeppelins
- Two Koreas
- Japanese Coastal Fishing
- Paris Changes
- History of Suez Canal
- Uganda & Amin
- Cane Toads
- Dinosaurs
- Astronomy
- Wooden Cars
- Russian Space program
- Kites
- The Domino Theory
- Man In Space
- Aristotle Onassis
- Fisheries Research
- Endangered Wildlife
- American Indians
- Art of Assassination
- Rocket Men
- Los Muchachos Circus
- Hang Gliding
- Gallipoli and ANZAC
- The Western Front
- Life Under Adolf Hitler
- Snake Charmers
- History of Ideas - Gravity
- The Valley of The Kings
- The Taj Mahal
- Keoladeo National Park
[edit] Filmography
- Major Cousens
- Jog’s Trot (short film)
- Matchless
[edit] Radio credits
- Video Biz
- Around The World
- The Way It Is
- Mark Twain’s Australia
[edit] Books
- From The Quay (University of NSW Press)
- G.P.-The Book of the TV Series (ABC Enterprises).
[edit] Reference
- The Production Book
- Encore Directory
- Royal Military College 1968 Yearbook.
