Greg Haddrick
Australian writer and television producer
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::summary Australian writer and television producer ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Greg Haddrick |
| birth_name | Gregory Bevan Haddrick |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| education | Newington College |
| University of Sydney | |
| occupation | |
| spouse | Margaret |
| parents | Lorraine and |
| Ron Haddrick AM MBE | |
| children | 3 |
| nationality | Australian |
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Gregory Bevan Haddrick (7 September 1960) is an Australian-born 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 addition, in 2006 he won a Logie Award for a mini-series. 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."
Early life
Haddrick is the younger child and only son of actor Ron Haddrick AM MBE and his wife. He was educated at Homebush Public School, where he was School Captain in 1972, and at Newington College (1973–78), where he was Senior Prefect in 1978. In 1982 he graduated with as a Bachelor of Arts (Honours, English) from the University of Sydney.
Film and television career
- Writer & Script Editor – Sons and Daughters
- First Writer – Home and Away
- Co-writer & Script Editor – Elly & Jools
- Co-writer of screenplay – The Magic Pudding feature film
- Writer – My Husband, My Killer
- Script editor of screenplay – The Potato Factory mini-series
- Script editor – Ihaka: Blunt Instrument telemovie
- Creator – MDA on ABC TV
- Producer – The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
- Co-writer – The Society Murders telemovie
- Co-producer & Writer – Underbelly
- Co-writer – Mirror, Mirror
- Producer – Cloudstreet
- Producer – Crownies
- Writer & Executive Producer – Janet King
- Writer – Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms
- Writer – Tricky Business
- Creator & writer – Pine Gap (TV series)
Awards
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| AWGIE AWARDS | 2008 | (MAJOR) Peer recognition Praise | Underbelly | |
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Publications
- Top Shelf 1: Reading and Writing the Best in Australian TV Drama (Sydney, 2001)
- Top Shelf 2: Five Outstanding Television Screenplays (Sydney, 2001)
References
References
- [http://www.currency.com.au/search.aspx?type=author&author=Greg+Haddrick Currency Press]
- [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/top50/2012/greg-haddrick/story-fndljfny-1226362648655 The Australian - Greg Haddrick]
- Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp80
- Rev Dr Peter Swain, ''Newington Across the Years 1863-1998''
- [http://www.backtothebay.net/cast-and-crew/greg-haddrick/ Haddrick – Back to the Bay] Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- (4 December 2008). "2008 AWGIE Award Winners".
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