Stephen Vagg is an Australian writer. He wrote the films All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane , based on his play, and Jucy , as well as a number of plays and episodes of the television soaps Home and Away and Neighbours . He is the author of Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, a biography of actor Rod Taylor, as well as a number of articles on film and theatre history. He received an AFI nomination for All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane. [1] At the 2014 AWGIE Awards, Vagg won Best Script for a Television Serial for "Episode 6857" of Neighbours. [2]
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Time Machine (1960), The Birds (1963), and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
Alan John Hopgood AM credited also as Alan Hopwood, is an Australian actor of theatre, television and telemovies, producer, dramatist and playwright and screenwriter and musical librettist.
Guy Doleman was a New Zealand actor.
Bearcats! is an American Western television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the fall 1971 television season. It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before the American entry into World War I (1917).
Adam Zwar is an Australian actor, voice artist, and writer. He is best known for co-creating the Australian comedy series Squinters, Lowdown, Wilfred and creating the critically acclaimed Channel 10 comedy Mr. Black as well as the popular factual series Agony Aunts, Agony Uncles, The Agony of Life, The Agony of Modern Manners and Agony. Zwar also presented and produced seminal cricket documentaries Underarm: The Ball That Changed Cricket and Bodyline: The Ultimate Test which took a forensic look at the infamous 1931-32 Ashes series between Australia and England.
Gregory Bevan Haddrick is an Australian-born Logie Award winning screenwriter and film and television producer. Over the last decade he has won six AWGIE Awards as a writer, two AFI Awards as a producer, and an International Emmy Award nomination as a writer and producer. In 2012, The Australian reported that: "If you've watched an Australian television drama in the past year, there's a one in two chance it was written by Greg Haddrick."
Long John Silver, also known as Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island, is a 1954 American-Australian adventure film about the eponymous pirate Long John Silver, with Robert Newton repeating his starring role from Walt Disney's 1950 feature Treasure Island. Newton's billing in the opening credits states, "Robert Newton as Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal", followed by the title Long John Silver.
All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane is a 2007 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Louise Alston and written by Stephen Vagg. It follows Anthea, a 25-year-old girl who hates her job and has to sit back and watch as all her friends move away from her hometown, Brisbane, to make a better life. In 2013, The Guardian referred to it as a "cult film" inspired by "a typically Brisbane lament... the departure of people in their late 20s to Sydney, Melbourne, London or New York."
Young Cassidy is a 1965 film directed by Jack Cardiff and John Ford and starring Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith. It is a biographical drama based upon the life of the playwright Seán O'Casey.
The Liquidator is a 1965 British thriller film starring Rod Taylor as Brian "Boysie" Oakes, Trevor Howard, and Jill St. John. It was based on the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner, The Liquidator. The film follows the 1964 novel closely. Due to a legal dispute, the film's original November 1965 release was delayed to the end of 1966, by which time the spy film craze was waning.
Pete McTighe is a British screenwriter and producer. He is the originating writer of Wentworth, a female ensemble prison drama series that won Most Outstanding and Most Popular Drama at the Logie Awards. He has written for various television productions in the UK and internationally including Doctor Who, Neighbours, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and The Doctor Blake Mysteries. McTighe joined A Discovery of Witches as executive producer and writer in 2019. McTighe has received five Australian Writers Guild Award nominations for his work.
Nelle Lee is a Brisbane-based actress, producer and writer best known for theatre work.
Jucy is an Australian comedy feature film produced in 2010 about the womance between two best female friends. The film was written by Stephen Vagg, directed by Louise Alston and produced by Kelly Chapman. It is the second in a planned "quarter life crisis" trilogy from Vagg and Alston following the 2007 romantic comedy All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane.
Louise Alston is an Australian film director and producer best known for the movies All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane and Jucy.
King of the Coral Sea is a 1954 film starring Chips Rafferty and Charles Tingwell, directed by Lee Robinson and shot on location in Thursday Island. It was one of the most commercially successful Australian films of the 1950s and was Rod Taylor's film debut.
Inland with Sturt is a 1951 documentary from Film Australia consisting of the 1950–51 re-enactment of Captain Charles Sturt's 1829–30 expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers. The re-enactment was part of Australia's 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Celebrations, commemorating 50 years of Federation.
Sarah Walker is an Australian author, screenwriter and script producer. She has written for several serial dramas, including Home and Away, Neighbours, and All Saints. She co-created the comedy drama Wonderland with Jo Porter in 2013. Walker has also written novels and worked as a journalist and actor, appearing in Man of Flowers (1983).
Margaret Wilson is an Australian television writer, who has also worked as a script editor and script producer. She currently works as a writer for Home and Away and Neighbours. Wilson won an AWGIE Award for Best Script for a Television Serial in 2008. She was also nominated in the same category the 2014 AWGIE Awards for her work on "Episode 6820" of Neighbours.
Joy Cavill was an Australian screenwriter and producer.
James Walker was an Australian television writer.