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Peter Hepworth
Screenwriter
Peter was born in Lismore, New South Wales, in 1948 and lives in Melbourne with his wife and children. He is the son of playwright/novelist Oriel Gray and author/columnist, John Hepworth. Peter began his writing career in 1968 on the seminal and much loved Bellbird television serial, and has well over 250 hours of produced screen drama and/or comedy to his credit. Peter has a fine reputation in coordinating story and script development for many different producers. He knows how to work with other script writers and has been especially inspirational in working with less experienced writers.
He has written on the permanent team of almost all of the major television series including the long running Skyways and Cop Shop before the internationally successful The Sullivans, Zoo Family (nominated for an American Emmy Award) and The Flying Doctors. He also wrote for the highly regarded Henderson Kids 1 before being asked to create Henderson Kids 2. He has been co-creator, writer and script supervisor of the ABC series House Rules and Inside Running, as well as script editor for The Flying Doctors and writing for Westbridge Film’s two Kelly series.
Westbridge commissioned him to co-create, story edit and write for their Ocean Girl series which received international acclaim and sales, including the American Disney and British BBC channels. He continued in these roles for three series, a total of 52 episodes. He also wrote the book version, published by Mammoth Press in Australia and Hyperion in the United States. Peter is co-creator/writer for a projected new children's information series, Eye Wonder, and creator/writer of the fledgling Small Tales of Nowhere series.
More recently, he was story editor for the 26-part soap opera spoof Shark Bay, made by Artist Services for Foxtel and a writer for Muggers and State Coroner. He was also story editor for the Simpson/Le Mesurier drama series, Good Guys, Bad Guys, the Barron series The Adventures of Chuck Finn, and for the December Films puppet series, Li’l Horrors. He has also written a number of episodes of Blue Heelers and has been developing some feature film projects.
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