Ken Quinnell

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Ken Quinnell
Born1939 (age 82–83)
Sydney, Australia

Ken Quinnell (born 1939) is an Australia screenwriter and film director.

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Journalism

Quinell has a background in publishing and freelancejournalism, including working for Screen International and Rolling Stone . In the 1960s he was a member of the WEA Film Study Group, where he met writers Michael Thornhill [1] and Frank Moorhouse.

From 1966 to 1968 Quinnell and Michael Thornhill published SCJ: The Sydney Cinema Journal. [2]

Film and television

Thornhill and Quinnell have worked in the Australian film industry.[ citation needed ]

Quinnell wrote the screenplays for Cathy's Child (1979) (with Dick Wordley) adapted from Wordley's novel Hoodwink (1981); and The City's Edge (1983), originally titled The Running Man. The City's Edge, which was made for television, was co-written by Robert J. Merritt and W.A. Harbison, adapted from W.A. Harbison's novel. Short Changed (1985) was also co-written by Merritt.[ citation needed ]

Awards

In 1981 Quinnell was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted, for Hoodwink .[ citation needed ]

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ David Stratton The last new wave : the Australian film revival Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1980
  2. ↑ Thornhill, Michael; Quinnell, Ken (1966–1968). "SCJ: The Sydney Cinema Journal [catalogue entry]". National Library of Australia . Retrieved 10 December 2021. No. 1 (autumn 1966)-no. 4 (summer 1968){{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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