George Ivan Smith
AO (11 July 1915 – 21 November 1995) career spanned radio, war correspondent, movie director, diplomat, poet and author. He was born 11 July 1915 George Charles Ivan Smith in Sydney,
New South Wales
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(NSW), Australia. He is the first son of George Franklin Smith, a NSW prison governor and May Sullivan.
Personal
In 1935 he married Madeleine LaBarte Oakes (1909–1966) of
Maryborough, Queensland: children George Ivan Smith 1937 deceased, Antony Ivan Smith (Ivansmith) (1939–2008) and Sharon Morreale 1940. In 1944 he married Mary Stephanie Douglass; stepchildren
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writer (1932–1993),
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Biography
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(1935), sculptor and an adopted daughter Edda Mwakeselo Ivan-Smith 1960, author and Social Development Consultant. He died in 1995 in
Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Ivan Smith is his full last name and not hyphenated, though often he is categorized under the last name Smith.
Life and career
After education at
Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in ...
and then Goulburn High School where his father George Franklin Smith was prison governor at the Goulburn Gaol. After graduation Ivan Smith began work as a cub newspaper journalist for the ''Sydney Truth''.
In 1937 he joined the
Australian Broadcasting Commission
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and managed
2WL a radio station in
Wollongong
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. Later
Michael Pate
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Biography Early life
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who began his famous career in 1938, when he joined Ivan Smith writing and broadcasting a program called 'Youth Speaks' for ABC Radio.
In 1939 became he talk's editor and a founding member of the new overseas short wave broadcasting service, "
Australia Calling" (1939–1941) later named
Radio Australia
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. In 1941 Ivan Smith was seconded to the
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Overseas Service in London, England where he became Director of the Pacific Service and organised overseas coverage of the Second Front.
In 1945 he joined the
, a documentary series of films for J. Arthur Rank (1945–1947).
Ivan Smith joined the
in 1947 and went to New York as Senior Director of External Affairs to establish the organisation's first international radio programmes for the United Nations Information Services, then at
, New York (1947–1949). In 1949 he came to Britain as first director of the London United Nations Information Centre, remaining there until 1958. During that time he was closely associated with Dr.