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John Cundill John Cundill i(A111940 works by)
Born: Established:
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South Africa,
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Southern Africa, Africa,
; Died: Ceased: Feb 2016
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1988
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1 form y separately published work icon Never Tell Me Never John Cundill , ( dir. David Elfick ) London Sydney : Golden Square Pictures Palm Beach Pictures , 1998 Z1450381 1998 single work film/TV Based on the real events that occurred to potential Olympian Janine Shepherd after she was partially paralysed in a car accident. With her dream of competing in the Winter Games in Calgary shattered, Shepherd is told that she will never ski again and will never have children. However, the determination that made her a sporting champion sees her eventually overcome these obstacles. She manages to walk again, learns to fly light planes, and more.
1 form y separately published work icon Mercury Sonia Borg , John Cundill , Glenda Hambly , David Rapsey , Deborah Parsons , Bill Garner , Sue Hore , Cliff Green , Cliff Green , ( dir. Kate Woods et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1996 Z1889211 1996 series - publisher film/TV

'Set in a newspaper, MERCURY looks at the lives of journalists and their relationships with the paper and each other.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon Janus Criminal Justice Alison Nisselle , Cliff Green , Tony McDonald , Deborah Parsons , Deb Cox , Sue Hore , Joanna Murray-Smith , Graham Hartley , Barbara Bishop , Jutta Goetze , Annie Beach , Graeme Koetsveld , Michael Harvey , John Cundill , Alison Nisselle , Tony McDonald , ( dir. Michael Carson et. al. )agent Melbourne : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1994-1995 Z1937319 1994-1995 series - publisher film/TV crime

'It's a story about justice...and the corruption of justice. JANUS is about the lawyers, police, judges and magistrates who work with a very imperfect system. The focus of our story will be the new Director of Public Prosecutions Officer, taking over the handling of all Committals for trial - the first sweeping changes recommended by the Janus Taskforce Committee.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/5/2013)

1 3 form y separately published work icon Heartland Burned Bridge Ro Hume , Susan MacGillicuddy , John Cundill , Kristen Dunphy , Andrew Kelly , Ernie Dingo , Bob Maza , Nicholas Parsons , ( dir. Julian Pringle et. al. )agent Australia : Northway Productions ABC Television , 1994 Z1605422 1994 series - publisher film/TV crime

Set in a small coastal town against the turmoils of murder, mystery and romance, Heartland deals with the death of an Aboriginal girl and the doubts concerning the guilt of her boyfriend, who is arrested for her murder. Vincent Burunga, an Aboriginal police liaison officer working in the town, is an outsider to both the local Aboriginal people and the white justice system, and he finds himself constantly on the edge caught between two cultures trying to understand each other. It explores the developing relationship between Vincent and the newly arrived Elizabeth Ashton. Both are convinced of the young man's innocence but must endure hostility from both the white and black communities and get past the obstacles of their different backgrounds.

The narrative also follows the people from this seaside community and their battle to restructure their own way of life and their struggle to restore their belief in a positive future, despite the obstacles in their path.

2 form y separately published work icon Ship to Shore John Rapsey , Glenda Hambly , Mary Morris , Everett de Roche , Jon Stephens , John Cundill , Judi McCrossin , David Phillips , Craig Wilkins , Geoffrey Nottage , Barbara Bishop , David Marsh , Peter A. Kinloch , Lynn Bayonas , Patrick Edgeworth , Sheila Sibley , Graham Foreman , Anthony Ellis , Stephen Measday , Ysabelle Dean , Nicholas Flanagan , Ron Elliott , Alison Nisselle , Trevor Todd , Sarah Smith , Philip Jeng Kane , ABC Television (publisher), Nine Network (publisher), ( dir. Karl Zwicky et. al. )agent Perth Australia : Barron Entertainment ABC Television Nine Network , 1993-1996 Z845012 1993 series - publisher film/TV children's adventure

Children's adventure television series about children who live on fictional Circe Island, a fishing community and communications base off the coast of Western Australia. The first series featured episodes in which the children outwitted adults, particularly the character Hermes Endakis. The series later emphasised environmental issues, particularly in the second series, where the children try to stop a big corporation from destroying their island.

1 form y separately published work icon Love in Limbo John Cundill , ( dir. David Elfick ) Australia : Palm Beach Productions , 1993 9269245 1993 single work film/TV humour historical fiction

'Love in Limbo is a technicolour tour around the teenage libido as it was in 1957, when sex was still a dirty word. Set to the Rhythm and Blues tunes of the unrequited love and designed for maximum impact, the film plans with the icons of the era, and the social mores of the day.

'Ken Riddle, 16 to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work on a trip to Kalgoorlie's infamous red light street, a fumbling attempt to collectively lose their virginity.

'Coincidentally, his glamorous widowed mother Gwen, a talented dress designer, sets out on her own wobbly journey, to a new romance - and a new career - on stiletto heels.

'Puffing on Lucky Strikes lit by Zippos, driving Studebakers adorned with tailfins, all the while shaking, rattling and rolling, the characters in Love In Limbo are innocent of greed, unaware of the world's looming crises, free of flower power and safe from sex. But they do want to fall out of limbo and into love.'

Source: Palm Beach Pictures.

1 form y separately published work icon Secrets Graeme Koetsveld , Tony Kavanagh , Tony Morphett , John Cundill , Everett de Roche , Glenda Hambly , Deb Cox , Jay Cook , ( dir. Steve Jodrell et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1993 7002459 1993 series - publisher film/TV thriller crime

'The story of three young people recruited to a secret Australian Government intelligence agency to deal with difficult and occasionally violent security matters.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 6/2/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Embassy John Reeves , Ian Bradley , Shane Brennan , Marcus Cole , Jan Sardi , Ann Turner , John Cundill , Barbara Bishop , Anne Lucas , Denise Morgan , Kate Woods , Ted Roberts , Cliff Green , David Worthington , Alan Hardy , ( dir. Mark Callan et. al. )agent Australia : Reg Grundy Enterprises Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1990-1992 7237190 1990 series - publisher film/TV

'Drama series set in and around an Australian embassy in the fictional Islamic country of Ragaan, where day to day diplomacy is the stuff of danger and news headlines rather than privilege and cocktails.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 10/4/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Jackaroo John Cundill , ( dir. Michael Carson ) Australia : Crawford Productions , 1990 7210373 1990 series - publisher film/TV

'JACKAROO is the story of a wild Australian stockman - a young Indigenous Australian whose struggle to win the woman he loves and claim the land he has inherited erupts into a saga of family love, loyalty, passion and power.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon G. P. Sue Masters , Chris Anastassiades , Linda Aronson , Luis Bayonas , Shelley Birse , David William Boutland , Anne Brooksbank , Don Catchlove , Elizabeth Coleman , Judith Colquhoun , John Coulter , Michael Craig , Louise Crane , John Cundill , Joe Dowse , Kristen Dunphy , Matt Ford , Peter Gawler , Michael Gaylard , Howard Griffiths , Chris Hawkshaw , Noel Hodda , Ro Hume , Louise Johnson , Patricia Johnson , Andrew Kelly , Margaret Kelly , Carla Kettner , Joseph King , Peter A. Kinloch , Graeme Koetsveld , Susan MacGillicuddy , Rick Maier , Tony Maniaty , Grant McAloon , Christine McCourt , Lina Mckenzie , Stephen Measday , Jennifer Mellet , Michael Miller , Greg Millin , John Misto , Margaret Morgan , Tony Morphett , Mary Morris , Peter Neale , Carol Nemo , Alison Nisselle , Felicity Packard , Deborah Parsons , David Phillips , Tim Pye , Oliver Robb , Ted Roberts , Leon Saunders , Peter Schreck , Bill Searle , Mark Sims , Robyn Sinclair , Steve J. Spears , Caroline Stanton , Helen Steel , Charlie Strachan , Marnie Taylor , John Thomas , Keith Thompson , Katherine Thomson , Steven Vidler , Craig Wilkins , Carol Williams , Kris Wyld , Peter Yeldham , ( dir. Peter Andrikidis et. al. )agent 1989 Australia : ABC Television Roadshow Coote and Carroll , 1989-1996 7819205 1989 series - publisher film/TV

G.P. is an Australian television series that ran for eight seasons. Set in and around a fictional general medical practice in an inner-city suburb, the storylines explore the professional and personal lives of the doctors and staff who worked there.

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