Gregory Bevan Haddrick (7 September 1960) is an Australian-born

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winning screenwriter and film and television producer. Over the last decade he has won six

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as a writer, two AFI Awards as a producer, and an International Emmy Award nomination as a writer and producer.Currency Press
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reported that: "If you've watched an Australian television drama in the past year, there's a one in two chance it was written by Greg Haddrick."

Early life

Haddrick is the younger child and only son of actor

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AM MBE. He was educated at Homebush Public School, where he was

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in 1972, and at

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(1973–78), where he was Senior Prefect in 1978. In 1982 he graduated with as a

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(Honours, English) from the

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.Haddrick – Back to the Bay
Retrieved 13 June 2017.

Film and television career

* Writer & Script Editor – '' Sons and Daughters'' * First Writer – '' Home and Away'' * Co-writer & Script Editor – '' Elly & Jools'' * Co-writer of screenplay – '' The Magic Pudding'' feature film * Writer – '' My Husband, My Killer'' * Script editor of screenplay – ''

The Potato Factory ''The Potato Factory'' is a 1995 fictionalised historical novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into a four-part miniseries in Australia in 2000. The book is the first in a three-part series, followed by '' Tommo & Hawk'' and '' Solomon's So ...

'' mini-series * Script editor – '' Ihaka: Blunt Instrument'' telemovie * Creator – ''MDA'' on ABC TV * Producer – ''

The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant ''The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant'' is a 2005 miniseries loosely based on the life of Mary Bryant, an English girl from Cornwall who in this telling was convicted of petty theft (though the historical Mary Bryant was transported for a viole ...

'' * Co-writer – '' The Society Murders'' telemovie * Co-producer & Writer – ''

Underbelly Underbelly is the side of something that is not normally seen. Figuratively, it means a vulnerable or weak part, similar to the term Achilles' heel, or alternatively, a hidden, illicit side of society. This term could refer to: Business * ...

'' * Co-writer – '' Mirror, Mirror'' * Producer – ''

Cloudstreet ''Cloudstreet'' is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Aust ...

'' * Producer – ''

Crownies ''Crownies'' is an Australian television drama series which was originally broadcast on ABC1 from 14 July until 1 December 2011. The series revolves around a group of solicitors fresh from law school, working with Crown Prosecutors, who are the ...

'' * Writer & Executive Producer – '' Janet King'' * Writer – '' Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms'' * Writer – '' Tricky Business'' * Creater & writer – '' Pine Gap (TV series)''

Awards

Publications

* Top Shelf 1: Reading and Writing the Best in Australian TV Drama (Sydney, 2001) * Top Shelf 2: Five Outstanding Television Screenplays (Sydney, 2001)

References

External links

''The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant'' - National Film and Sound Archive

''Underbelly'' - News report
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haddrick, Greg 1960 births Australian film producers Australian screenwriters Australian television writers Australian male television writers Australian television producers Living people People from Sydney People educated at Newington College