Bruce Stewart (scriptwriter)
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4 September 1925
Bruce Stewart | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bruce Robert Stewart 4 September 1925 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 29 September 2005 (aged 80) Lewes, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupations | Scriptwriter, dramatist/playwright |
Bruce Robert Stewart (4 September 1925 – 29 September 2005) was an actor and scriptwriter best known for his scripts for television. Originally from New Zealand,[1][self-published source?] he lived for several years in Australia, working in the theatre, before moving to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.[2] There he worked on many projects for both the BBC and ITV, notably Out of the Unknown and Timeslip.[3]
Sydney
Stewart was born in Auckland and studied at Mount Albert Grammar.
For three years he studied to be a priest at Marist seminary. He then moved into the entertainment industry.[4]
Stewart served in the army. He would perform songs and tell stories as a forces entertaininer, then moved into radio in Auckland, where he worked as a radio announcer and actor.
In 1947 Stewart moved to Sydney, Australia where he got work as a radio announcer. He became an actor, appearing in radio dramas, as well as acting in stage plays in the evening. His breakthrough performance as a radio actor was in a production of Morning Departure.[5]
London
Stewart moved to London in 1955 and began working in television and radio as an actor. His breakthrough as a writer was Shadow of a Pale Horse.
TV scripts
- A Time of the Serpent (1958)[6]
- The Land of the Long White Cloud (1958) - serial
- Shadow of a Pale Horse (1959)[7]
- The Watchmen of Saul (1961)
- The Cell 5 Experience (1961)
- The Devil Makes Sunday (1961)
- The Sin Shifter (1962)
- Jezebel (1963) (TV series) - story editor[8]
- Day of the Drongo (1964)[9]
- The Harp in the South (1964) - BBC adaptation
- Boney and the Monster (1972)
- Timeslip (1972-73)
- Old Man March is Dead (1976) - BBC play[10]
- Secret Valley (1984) - TV series
- Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin (1986) - TV series
Radio plays
- Peter & Paula - Australian radio serial
- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1958) - BBC radio adaptation
- Time of the Serpent (1958) - about Eliza Fraser
- Blood on the Coral Sea
- Night of the Gods - about explosion of Mount Tarawera
- The Wake of the Long White Cloud (1958) - serial - also acted[11]
- Moonfall (radio play) (1959)
- Low Voice in Rama (1960)
- The Hot and Copper Sky (1962)
- Flower of Blood (1991) - BBC
- Day of the Galah
Novels
- A Disorderly Girl (1978)
- The Hot and Copper Sky (1981)
