Olive (film)

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Olive
Directed by Stephen Wallace
Written byAnthony Wheeler
Starring Kerry McGuire
Nick Tate
Release date
  • 1988 (1988)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Olive is a 1988 Australian television film about actress Olive Bodill, who died of cancer in 1985. [1] The film was written by Bodill's husband Anthony Wheeler. It first screened in February 1988 on the ABC. [2]

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Cast

Accolades

1988 Australian Film Institute Awards

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 116
  2. Morris, Joan (14 February 1988), "Television violence exercises the minds of the ABC.", The Canberra Times
  3. "And the winners were...", The Canberra Times, 12 October 1988
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