Screenwriter, producer
Ron McLean has written scripts for more than 20 Australian television series, including such well-known shows as Skippy (1969), Woobinda: Animal Doctor, (1970), The Rovers (1970), Division 4 (1969), Spyforce (1971), Homicide (1971), Barrier Reef (1972), Ryan (1973), Silent Number (1974), Chopper Squad (1978), Prisoner (1979), Glenview High (1979), and Bellamy (1981).
McLean has also operated his own production companies: South Pacific Films and Ron McLean Productions. He has produced the telemovies The Little Feller, Air Hawk, and Outbreak of Hostilities, and the television programs Spyforce, Human Target, Silent Number, Case for the Defence, and Glenview High.
McLean was also one of a team of four people who wrote children's books under the name of Mary Elliott.