David Stevens
David Stevens (born December 22, 1940 in Tiberias , Palastinä , † July 17, 2018 in Whangarei , New Zealand ) was an Australian screenwriter and film director .
Life
Stevens grew up in Tiberia. His father was an aircraft engineer for flying boats there . In 1960 he left Israel to emigrate to Australia, but ended up in New Zealand , where he stayed until the 1970s and worked for radio and television.
In Australia, he wrote the screenplay for the war drama The Fall of Lieutnant Morant (1980), based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, with director Bruce Beresford and Jonathan Hardy . The script was nominated for an Oscar .
He directed the miniseries A Town Like Alice (1981). He also wrote three novels. Among other things, he also finished Queen: The Story of an American Family and Mama Flora's Family , which were originally written by Alex Haley and ended by Stevens after his death. Both novels were also made into films. For this he received the Image Award from the NAACP .
Works
- The Sum o0f Us (Play) . Samuel French Inc Plays 1991. ISBN 978-0573692666
- The Sum of Us (Screenplays) . Currency Press 1995. ISBN 978-0868194417
- Alex Haley : Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family , 1993 (completed by Stevens after Haley's death) ISBN 0-330-33307-0 (German: Alex Haley's Queen ISBN 3-426-19340-X )
- Alex Haley: Mama Flora's Family , 1998 (completed by Stevens after Haley's death) ISBN 0-440-61409-0
Filmography
Director
- 1971: Pukemanu (TV series, an episode)
- 1972: An Awful Silence (TV movie)
- 1972–1976: Homicide (TV series, 24 episodes)
- 1974: The Forward Pack (TV movie)
- 1975: Matlock Police (TV series, two episodes)
- 1976: Der Landpolizist (Solo One) (TV series, seven episodes)
- 1976: The Sullivans (TV series)
- 1977: Goodbye Charlie! (The Outsiders) (TV series, episode)
- 1977: Bluey (TV series, two episodes)
- 1977: Young Ramsey (TV series, two episodes)
- 1977: Roses Bloom Twice
- 1979: The John Sullivan Story
- 1981: The Long Road to Alice Springs (A Town Like Alice) (Miniseries)
- 1982: Women of the Sun (mini-series, one episode)
- 1982: The Clinic
- 1984: Undercover
- 1984: Australien-Express (Five Mile Creek) (TV series, one episode)
- 1984: up and away! - Adventures in the 5th Continent (Runaway Island) (TV series, two episodes)
- 1985: A Thousand Skies (miniseries, three episodes)
- 1988: Always Afternoon (Miniseries)
- 1988: Kansas
script
- 1974–1975: Division 4 (TV series, three episodes)
- 1976: Rogue's Rock (TV series, four episodes)
- 1976–1983: The Sullivans (TV series, 1067 episodes)
- 1978: Cop Shop (TV series, two episodes)
- 1980: The Fall of Lieutnant Morant (Breaker Morant)
- 1981–1986: Prisoner (TV series, three episodes)
- 1993: Queen (TV series, three episodes)
- 1994: Always Trouble With Love (The Sum of Us)
- 1996: The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
- 1998: Merlin (miniseries)
- 1998: Crime and Punishment (TV movie)
- 1998: Mama Flora's Family (TV movie)
- 1999: Aftershock - The Great Quake (Aftershock: Earthquake in New York) (Miniseries)
- 2001: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
Web links
- David Stevens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vale David Stevens, esteemed writer / director. In: If . July 18, 2018, retrieved February 7, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ a b David Stevens, Oscar-nominated screenwriter on 'Breaker Morant,' Dies at 77. In: The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Stevens, David, 1940-2018 .: Alex Haley's Queen: the story of an American family . Pan Books in association with Macmillan, London 1993, ISBN 0-330-33307-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stevens, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiberias , Palestinian |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 2018 |
| Place of death | Whangarei , New Zealand |