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Bernard Norman Gannon AO (23 September 1952 – 4 January 2007), known as Ben Gannon, was an Australian film, television and stage producer.
Jan 5, 2007 · Gannon, 54, succumbed to cancer, just months after a final triumph — the hugely successful arena tour of the Peter Allen story, with Hugh Jackman as lead, the star who had taken the story to ...
Ben Gannon, the Australian producer who was instrumental in bringing the Hugh Jackman hit The Boy From Oz to Broadway, died Jan. 4 in Sydney after a battle with cancer. He was 54.
Ben Gannon was born on 23 September 1952 in Maffra, Victoria, Australia. He was a producer and writer, known for Gallipoli (1981), Heartbreak High (2022) and The Heartbreak Kid (1993). He died on 4 January 2007 in Tamarama, New South Wales, Australia.
- Producer, Writer
- September 23, 1952
- Ben Gannon
- January 4, 2007
Jan 5, 2007 · Australian entertainment and entertainers lost a unique champion with the death from cancer (January 2007) at just 54 of Ben Gannon. Ben Gannon was a producer of theatre, film and television who was both visionary and commercially successful - a spectacular combination.
Jan 10, 2007 · Ben Gannon, who died last week aged 54 from cancer and whose funeral service was held yesterday, was born Bernard Norman Gannon in Maffra in Victoria's Gippsland. His father was a land surveyor and farmer. Leaving the Jesuit Xavier College in Melbourne, Gannon undertook NIDA's two-year production course in Sydney.
Heartbreak High is an Australian television programme created by Michael Jenkins and Ben Gannon that ran from 1994 to 1996 on Network Ten and 1997 to 1999 on the ABC, for seven series. It was also partially funded from 1996 by BBC2, with some episodes airing in the UK ahead of their Australian release.
