Peter Anthony Luck (5 January 1944 – 6 September 2017) was an

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author, TV journalist, producer and presenter.

Career

As a television personality, among the shows he worked on were ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', ''Bicentennial Minutes … A Time to Remember'', ''This Fabulous Century'', ''The Australians'', ''50 Fantastic Years'' and '' Where Are They Now?''. ''This Fabulous Century'' was a 37-part series produced by the

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, after Luck's previous employer, the

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had declined, believing that a series that relied so heavily on black-and-white film, when the country had only recently switched to colour television, would not be successful. It was shown on Sunday nights on Seven, and became the hit of 1979.David Dale, "Fakes & Fictions", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 18 September 1999, Spectrum, p.7s

Personal life

Peter Luck was raised in Adelaide, South Australia, and attended Findon High School. Luck was married to Penny for 43 years, and they had a son and daughter.

Death

Luck died on 6 September 2017 at

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. He had cancer and

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

when he died.

Discography

Studio albums

References

External links

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Peter Luck Picture Library
1944 births 2017 deaths Australian television presenters Deaths from cancer in New South Wales Deaths from Parkinson's disease Neurological disease deaths in New South Wales {{Australia-tv-bio-stub