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Christopher Lee Christopher Lee i(A35791 works by) (a.k.a. Christopher David Lee)
Born: Established: 1947 New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Christopher Lee was born in the central west of New South Wales, where he also spent his childhood. He completed secondary school in Sydney, and in the late 1960s he studied law at the Australian National University in Canberra. He worked in several jobs, before completing a BA at the University of Sydney. He became a journalist and worked in Sydney, Fleet Street and the Northern Territory. His first novel was Bush Week (1980).

Lee left journalism after receiving an Australia Council Literature Board one year fellowship in 1981 and began scriptwriting after he was accepted into the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS).

While still at AFTRS Lee developed a television script about a journalist which became the ABC drama series Stringer (1988). Amongst his other work for television is the ABC-BBC drama series Police Rescue (1990-1994), as head writer. Co-writer (with Suzanne Hawley and Denis Whitburn) of the ABC mini-series The Bodysurfer (1989). Four of the six Cody telemovies (created by Gary Disher, 1994-1995) for the Seven Network and co-creator and head writer of the Network Ten drama series Big Sky (1997, 1999). He wrote the SBS teleplay That Man's Father (1992), the SKY UK-Seven Network four-hour mini-series Do Or Die (2001) and co-wrote, with Nicholas Hammond, the ABC telemovie Secret Men's Business (1999). He co-wrote (with Judi McCrossin) the pilot for the Ten/Channel 4 UK drama The Secret Life Of Us (2001) and was originating writer of the following series (2001-2004). He was script executive for the third series of the Showtime drama series Love My Way (2001-2007) and co-creator (with John Edwards) and script producer of the Network Ten drama series Rush (2008).

Sources: Artshub website, www.artshub.com.au (Sighted 01/09/2009)

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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Friday on My Mind ( dir. Shawn Seet ) Australia : Playmaker Media , 2017 10730683 2017 series - publisher film/TV

Biopic on The Easybeats.

2018 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Telefeature or Mini Series
y separately published work icon Seasons of War Melbourne : Penguin , 2015 8300628 2015 single work novel war literature

'I was young then. I remember the landing on the beach and the days of my time on the peninsula and returning home from war, the past and the present coming together in my mind over the years. I remember the beauty of the ugly place.

'Packed into tiny boats, Michael, his brother Dan and their mates think only of what is to come. These young Australians miss home, hate the enemy and are choking in fear.

'After the surreal panic of that first dawn charge up the Turkish beaches, when nothing is as they were told, they dig in. For the next eight months, each will play his part in the epic battle of Gallipoli.

'Trying to survive in the lottery of close warfare and watching as the seasons change, Michael comes to wonder whether the men he fights are so different from himself. Wedged in the trenches, soldiers of both sides will be irrevocably changed by two relentless forces – the turning seasons and the grinding machine of war. Even if they survive, what will they become?

This powerfully lyrical novel by acclaimed screenwriter Christopher Lee (writer of the TV series Gallipoli) takes us to the heart of the diggers' experience. It brings to life the kind of truth that only fiction can – what it was like to be in those trenches, and how the character of the nation transformed when Gallipoli changed these men.' (Publication summary)

2015 shortlisted 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Anzac Centenary Prize for Literature
form y separately published work icon Gallipoli ( dir. Glendyn Ivin ) Australia : Southern Star Entertainment Nine Network , 2015 Z1917817 2015 single work film/TV 'The greatest invasion in the history of warfare was to become a diabolical failure - an eight-month siege where the bravery of Anzac troops was squandered. But in doing so a legend, and a nation, were born.' (Source: Screen Australia)
2015 shortlisted AWGIE Awards Television Mini-Series - Adaptation
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