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The Winner (radio Series)
''The Winner'' is a 1952 Australian radio series written by Lee Robinson about a boxer, starring real life boxer Tommy Burns. Recording started in February 1952 and the director was John Reeve.1952 'Burns to star in 208 rounds', Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1926 - 1954), 10 February, p. 15. , viewed 29 May 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article98351042 It was one of several radio series that Robinson wrote for in the early 1950s. Cast *Tommy Burns *June Salter *Margot Lee References {{Lee Robinson 1952 Australian radio dramas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Robinson (director)
Lee Robinson (22 February 1923 – 22 September 2003) was an Australian producer, director and screenwriter who was Australia's most prolific filmmaker of the 1950s and part of the creative team that produced the late 1960s international hit television series ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.'' Biography Robinson was born in Petersham, New South Wales and left school aged 12. He worked at the ''Daily Telegraph'' as a copy boy, and wrote short stories prior to the war. He first entered film as a member of the Australian Army History Unit where he filmed Australian troops in Rabaul and East Timor. His commanding officer in the History Unit was the author and screenwriter Jon Cleary. After the war he was going to work for the ABC as a scriptwriter when he received an offer to join the Australian Information Service film unit (later Film Australia) where he directed a film on Albert Namatjira called ''Namatjira the Painter'' (1946). Robinson made several films in the Northern Territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Burns (Australian Boxer)
Geoffrey Mostyn Murphy (19 May 1922 – 14 February 2011) was an Australian boxer who fought under the name Tommy Burns (after the Canadian boxer). He was born in Mullumbimby, New South Wales, but spent most of his life in the neighbouring Australian state of Queensland. Murphy chose his fighting name in honour of the Canadian heavyweight boxer and former world champion, Tommy Burns, who lost his title to Jack Johnson in Australia in 1908. After his family's bakery failed during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Geoffrey Mostyn Murphy searched various employment. Murphy started boxing in 1936 at the age 14, winning one match via knockout. He then processed to not fight for another two years. In 1947, he won the Australian Welterweight Championship and fought many of the best Australian boxers of his era, becoming a crowd favourite. He appeared in the 1949 Charles Chauvel Australian movie ''Sons of Matthew'' and the radio serial '' The Winner''. Murphy, as Tommy Burns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |