John Dingwall
John Dingwall (13 July 1940 – 3 May 2004) was an Australian journalist, writer and director of film and television, best known for his screenplay Sunday Too Far Away (1975).
Career
Dingwall worked as journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald before going to Crawford Productions as a television writer. He moved into features with Sunday Too Far Away based on his brother in law's experiences as a sheep shearer. He later became a producer and director.[1]
Select Credits
- Matlock Police (TV series) - writer
- Sunday Too Far Away (1975) - writer
- Pig in a Poke (1977) (TV series) - writer, creator
- Buddies (1983) - writer, producer
- Phobia (1987) - director, writer
- The Custodian (1991) - director, writer
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gollark: Interesting! I'm glad that's been resolved.
gollark: Which is possibly true in a lot of cases because of general-purpose computing abilities being slowly eroded, and interesting online platforms lacking (good) APIs, but still.
gollark: An issue with the Raspberry Pi and stuff for computing education is that they separate "programmable computers" and "normal computers" and might make people think they can't do interesting stuff with what they already have.
References
- Kuipers, Richard (28 May 2004). "John Dingwall". Variety. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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