Ted Roberts
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Ted Roberts (born 17 April 1931 Sydney, New South Wales ) is an Australian television scriptwriter and supervising producer.
After completing his education at Marist Brothers College in Randwick, Roberts worked in advertising and sales promotion before commencing his career as a freelance writer for television and film
Ted Roberts began his career in television in the 1960s, writing early episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. The series was screened in over eighty countries and its theme tune, composed by Eric Jupp, is one of the best known and most recognisable Australian tunes. The long version (the B side on the record) has lyrics by Ted Roberts.
Ted Roberts' other television credits include Homicide (Seven Network - 1964-1976), Certain Women (ABC - 1973-1976), Rush (ABC - 1974-1976), Patrol Boat (ABC 1979-80), Water Rats (Nine Network - 1996-2001), A Country Practice, Blue Heelers, Mission Impossible, Star Trek.
[edit] Awards
He has won four Australian Awgies and a Henry Lawson Festival Award for his writing, and received AFI and Logie nominations. He won the 1974 Australian Writers' Guild in the Original Television Drama Category for Three Men of the City. He is also Winner of the Henry Lawson prize (for the TV miniseries Lindsay's Boy (ABC - 1974) ). In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious Richard Lane Award by the Australian Writers' Guild for Services to the Australian Writers' Guild.
[edit] References
- Ann Atkinson, Linsay Knight, Margaret McPhee (Ed.) (1996). The dictionary of performing arts in Australia. St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86-448005-X.
- Albert Moran ; with additional research by Peter Pinne (1993). Moran's guide to Australian TV series. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Australian Film Television & Radio School : distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-64-218462-3.
- Lindsay's boy by Ted Roberts in Alrene Sykes (Ed.) (1977). Five plays for stage, radio and television. St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press. ISBN 0-70-221444-2.
