Esben Storm
Esben Storm | |
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| Born | 26 May 1950 Støvring, Denmark |
| Died | 28 March 2011 (aged 60) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 1972–2008 |
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Esben Storm (26 May 1950 – 28 March 2011) was a Danish Australian actor, screenwriter, television producer, television director, voice artist and songwriter.
Early life[edit]
Storm came to Australia with parents Laurits and Ane in 1958, after Laurits lost the family farm to lawyers. After settling in Melbourne, his father worked as a builder's labourer and built a darkroom, where Esben learned photographic processing, composition and lighting.
Career[edit]
Storm was well known for his work with the Australian Children's Television Foundation, headed by Patricia Edgar, where he worked for 15 years. The company sold programs to 92 countries, and Storm was involved in writing, acting, editing, and directing numerous programs, including Round the Twist.[1] He worked to adapt John Marsden's Tomorrow series but lost the rights to the film.
Film making[edit]
Storm started making films at 18 with his then partner Haydn Keenan. His early work was mostly serious in nature, including a 1983 documentary about the Hilton Bombing in Sydney called With Prejudice. He wrote and directed 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978) (with film stills and publicity shots by Carol Jerrems, who was then his girlfriend),[2] Deadly (1991), and Subterano (2003). He directed Devil's Hill (1988), the Tasmanian film in the Touch the Sun series of bicentennial telemovies. In 2007, he directed the SBS comedy series Kick.[3]
Storm also worked on several television series such as Round the Twist, The Genie from Down Under (as scriptwriter and director), Sky Trackers (as script consultant), Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers (as the show's creator, scriptwriter and dialogue director), Blue Heelers (as a director), Crash Zone, and Winners (for which he directed the episode "The Other Facts of Life").
Acting[edit]
In 1976, Storm acted in Hanging About, a film by Carol Jerrems, who was then his girlfriend and living with him in Willoughby. He appeared in Room to Move and in two episodes of Winners. He played Pat in Phoenix and Colin in an episode of Blue Heelers.
Feature film roles included The Coca-Cola Kid, Wrong World (both 1985) and Young Einstein (1988).
Storm’s last acting role was in the medical drama series All Saints.[3]
Death[edit]
Storm died, aged 60, on 28 March 2011.[4]
Filmography[edit]
Film (as actor)[edit]
- Doors (1969, short)
- In His Prime (1972, short)
- Stephanie (1972, short)
- A Motion Picture (1972, short)
- Hanging About: A Short Film by Carol Jerrems (1976, short)
- Going Down (1982) as Michael
- Birthin' Hips (1983)
- The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) as Country Hotel Manager
- Wrong World (1985) as Lawrence
- Pandemonium (1987) as E.B. De Woolf / Husband
- Les Patterson Saves the World (1987) as Russian Scientist
- Young Einstein (1988)
- Terrormisu: A Night Of Just Desserts (1993)
- Rusty & The Bathtub Banana (1993)
Film (as crew)[edit]
- 27A (1974) as writer & director
- In Search of Anna (1978) as writer, director & producer
- With Prejudice (1982) as director
- Stanley (1984) as director
- Deadly (1991) as writer & director
- Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers (1998) as creator, scriptwriter & dialogue director
- Subterano (2003) as writer & director
Unmade films[edit]
- Angel Gear (mid-1970s)
- Bondi Blue (early 1980s) – Reg Grundy withdrew financing just before filming was to start[5]
- Dirty Barry (1980s)[5]
- Doctor Flatus (1994)
Television (as actor)[edit]
- With Prejudice (1983, documentary)
- Room to Move as Tom
- Winners (1985) as Leo George (episode: The Other Facts of Life)
- More Winners (1985) as Waiter (episode: The Big Wish)
- Alice to Nowhere (1986, miniseries) as Frog
- Round the Twist (1989–2001) as Mr Snapper
- Phoenix as Pat
- Blue Heelers as Colin Roper
- All Saints
Television (as crew)[edit]
- Touch the Sun: Devil’s Hill (1988) as director
- Winners (1985) as director (episode: The Other Facts of Life)
- Round the Twist (1989) as director/script consultant, (1991; 2000-01) as writer/screenplay
- Crash Zone (1991-2001)
- Sky Trackers (1995) as script consultant
- The Genie from Down Under (1996-98) as scriptwriter & director
- Blue Heelers as director (episode: Breaking the Cycle)
- Kick (2007) as director
Awards[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Esben Storm, 1950 - 2011., The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2011.
- ^ Cover, July 1977, Cinema papers, Global Village Cinema Publications, 1977
- ^ a b Finney, Sarah: Vale Esben Storm (1950 – 2011) Archived 14 April 2013 at archive.today, Australian Film Institute, 29 March 2011.
- ^ Industry mourns Esben Storm Archived 1 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Encore, 29 March 2011.
- ^ a b "Interview with Esben Storm", Signis, 22 August 1995 Archived 3 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 21 November 2012.
- ^ AFI Award Winners Feature Categories 1958-2009 Archived 7 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Film Institute.
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- 2011 deaths
- Australian male television actors
- Australian male film actors
- Australian screenwriters
- Australian television producers
- Australian television directors
- Australian television writers
- Australian voice directors
- Australian people of Danish descent
- Danish emigrants to Australia
- Australian male television writers