Eleanor Katrine Whitcombe (1923-09-20)20 September 1923 Yorketown, South Australia, Australia
Died
21 October 2018(2018-10-21) (aged 95) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Screenwriter, playwright
Language
English
Nationality
Australian
Education
Brisbane Girls Grammar School National Art School
Notable works
The Getting of Wisdom My Brilliant Career
The Mavis Bramston Show
Number 96
Notable awards
AFI Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1978) Member of the Order of Australia (2014)
Eleanor Katrine WitcombeAM (20 September 1923 – 21 October 2018) was an Australian screenwriter and playwright who worked extensively in radio, film and television.[1][2]
^"Biography at University of Queensland Press". Retrieved 4 August 2013.
^Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. p. 130-132.
Eleanor Katrine Witcombe AM (20 September 1923 – 21 October 2018) was an Australian screenwriter and playwright who worked extensively in radio, film and...
Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia. It was founded in 1963 by EleanorWitcombe. The first committee was formed in 1963 and consisted of Alastair Duncan...
Mistress Money premiered in Sydney in 1960. It had book and lyrics by EleanorWitcombe and John McKellar and music by Dot Mendoza. More recently in Britain...
Halfway to Anywhere (adapted by Cliff Green), Redheap (adapted by EleanorWitcombe), A Curate in Bohemia (adapted by Michael Boddy), The Cousin from Fiji...
including The Bushrangers and Smugglers Beware. Leslie Rees later wrote Witcombe "won unusually widespread popularity with" these plays adding, "Using a...
(Smile Train) and sports team owner (New York Islanders), lung cancer. EleanorWitcombe, 95, Australian screenwriter (My Brilliant Career, The Getting of Wisdom)...
Smugglers Beware is a 1950 Australian stage play by EleanorWitcombe. It was widely performed and was published in book form. Witcome later adapted it...
Donation of Fernando III to a Nun of Fontevraud”. In Holt, Edward L.; Witcombe, Teresa (eds.). The Sword and the Cross. Castile-León in the Era of Fernando...
filmed in 1977, directed by Bruce Beresford, from a screenplay by EleanorWitcombe, starring Susannah Fowle as "Laura Rambotham" with supporting roles...
Bill Conn, Martin Harris, Don Reid 1980 Pirates at the Barn Writer: EleanorWitcombe Designer: Neil Armfield Cast: Simon Burke, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Louise...
Elizabeth Winstanley / Ariele (1818–1882), writer and stage actress EleanorWitcombe (1923–2018), screenwriter Amy Witting, pseudonym of Joan Austral Fraser...
Redheap Based on novel by Norman Lindsay Written by EleanorWitcombe Directed by Brian Bell Starring Peter Flett Michael Boddy Pamela Stephenson Norman...
projects including David Sale, Johnny Whyte, Lynn Foster, Ken Shadie and EleanorWitcombe. Cash became ill in November 1972 and died in January the following...
film version was directed by Bruce Beresford, from a screenplay by EleanorWitcombe. Internet Movie DataBase - The Getting of Wisdom (1978) Children's...
Best Screenplay Adapted From Other Material My Brilliant Career – EleanorWitcombe Cathy's Child – Ken Quinnell The Last of the Knucklemen – Tim Burstall...
Trish Ramsay, executive Terry McDermott, actor Peter Ross, presenter EleanorWitcombe, writer Damian Hill, actor Paul Blackwell, actor Mick Turski, camera...
writer and 2003 Prix Guillaume Apollinaire recipient, 80 (born 1938) EleanorWitcombe, Australian screenwriter and playwright, 95 (born 1923) October 22...
Darren Stewart, 52, association footballer and manager 21 October – EleanorWitcombe, 95, screenwriter and playwright 22 October – Anne Fairbairn, 90, poet...
Pastures of the Blue Crane Written by EleanorWitcombe Directed by Tom Jeffrey Starring Jeanie Drynan Harold Hopkins Harry Lawrence Queenie Ashton Peter...
Direction (film): John Dowding for Thirst Best Writer Feature Film: EleanorWitcombe for My Brilliant Career Best Writer TV Series: Denise Morgan for Prisoner...
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