Gregory Bevan Haddrick (7 September 1960) is an Australian-born screenwriter and film and television producer. Over the last decade he has won six

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as a writer, two AFI Awards as a producer, and an International

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nomination as a writer and producer.Currency Press
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for a mini-series. In 2012, ''

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'' 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 Ronald Norman Haddrick (9 April 1929 – 11 February 2020) was an Australian actor, narrator and South Australian cricketer. In 2012, he received the Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement Award for his long and distinguished career in media, span ...

AM MBE and his wife. He was educated at Homebush Public School, where he was

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in 1972, and at

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(1973–78), where he was Senior Prefect in 1978. In 1982 he graduated with as a

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(Honours, English) from the

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.Haddrick – Back to the Bay
Retrieved 13 June 2017.

Film and television career

* Writer & Script Editor – '' Sons and Daughters'' * First Writer – ''

Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, N ...

'' * Co-writer & Script Editor – ''

Elly & Jools ''Elly & Jools'' is an Australian children's television series that originally aired on the Nine Network in 1990. It starred Rebecca Smart as Elinor 'Elly' Lockett and Clayton Williamson as Julian 'Jools' Trevaller. It also featured Abigail, An ...

'' * Co-writer of screenplay – ''

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'' feature film * Writer – ''

My Husband, My Killer ''My Husband, My Killer'' is a 2001 Australian TV film about the Murder of Megan Kalajzich. It is based on the book of the same name by Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson. It stars Colin Friels as Detective Inkster and Martin Sacks as Andrew K ...

'' * Script editor of screenplay – ''

The Potato Factory ''The Potato Factory'' is a 1995 fictionalised historical novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into a four-part miniseries in Australia in 2000. The book is the first in a three-part series, followed by '' Tommo & Hawk'' and '' Solomon's So ...

'' mini-series * Script editor – '' Ihaka: Blunt Instrument'' telemovie * Creator – ''MDA'' on ABC TV * Producer – ''

The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant ''The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant'' is a 2005 miniseries loosely based on the life of Mary Bryant, an English girl from Cornwall who in this telling was convicted of petty theft (though the historical Mary Bryant was transported for a vio ...

'' * Co-writer – '' The Society Murders'' telemovie * Co-producer & Writer – ''

Underbelly Underbelly is the side of something that is not normally seen. Figuratively, it means a vulnerable or weak part, similar to the term Achilles' heel, or alternatively, a hidden, illicit side of society. This term could refer to: Business * U ...

'' * Co-writer – '' Mirror, Mirror'' * Producer – ''

Cloudstreet ''Cloudstreet'' is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Au ...

'' * Producer – ''

Crownies ''Crownies'' is an Australian television drama series which was originally broadcast on ABC1 from 14 July until 1 December 2011. The series revolves around a group of solicitors fresh from law school, working with Crown Prosecutors, who are t ...

'' * Writer & Executive Producer – '' Janet King'' * Writer – '' Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms'' * Writer – '' Tricky Business'' * Creator & writer – ''

Pine Gap (TV series) ''Pine Gap'' is an Australian television drama and thriller series that was released on Netflix and broadcast on ABC in 2018. The six-part series was written and created by Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard. Mat King directed all six episodes ...

Awards

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

External links

''The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant'' - National Film and Sound Archive

''Underbelly'' - News report
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haddrick, Greg 1960 births Australian film producers Australian screenwriters Australian television writers Australian male television writers Australian television producers Living people People educated at Newington College