Ken Quinnell

Ken Quinnell
Born1939 (age 85–86)
Sydney, Australia

Ken Quinnell (born 1939) is an Australia screenwriter and film director.

Journalism

Quinell has a background in publishing and freelancejournalism, including working for Screen International and Rolling Stone. In the 1960s he was a member of the WEA Film Study Group, where he met writers Michael Thornhill[1] and Frank Moorhouse.

From 1966 to 1968 Quinnell and Michael Thornhill published SCJ: The Sydney Cinema Journal.[2]

Film and television

Thornhill and Quinnell have worked in the Australian film industry.[citation needed]

Quinnell wrote the screenplays for Cathy's Child (1979) (with Dick Wordley) adapted from Wordley's novel Hoodwink (1981); and The City's Edge (1983), originally titled The Running Man. The City's Edge, which was made for television, was co-written by Robert J. Merritt and W.A. Harbison, adapted from W.A. Harbison's novel. Short Changed (1985) was also co-written by Merritt.[citation needed]

Awards

In 1981 Quinnell was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted, for Hoodwink.[citation needed]

Bibliography

  • David Stratton (1980). The last new wave : the Australian film revival. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-14146-0.
  • Brian McFarlane; Geoff Mayer; Ina Bertrand, eds. (1999). Written at Melbourne, Australia. The Oxford companion to Australian film. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553797-1.

References

  1. ^ David Stratton The last new wave : the Australian film revival Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1980
  2. ^ Thornhill, Michael; Quinnell, Ken (1966–1968). "SCJ: The Sydney Cinema Journal [catalogue entry]". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 December 2021. No. 1 (autumn 1966)-no. 4 (summer 1968) {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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