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Kenneth George Shadie OAM (8 December 1935 – 29 June 2020) was an Australian screenwriter, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John Cornell . Biography. Shadie was born in the Sydney suburb of Bondi and raised in Lane Cove.
Writer: Crocodile Dundee. Ken Shadie was a writer and producer, known for Crocodile Dundee (1986), Snake Gully with Dad and Dave (1972) and Number 96 (1972). He was married to Pamela (Pam) Jameson. He died on 29 June 2020 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Screenwriter Ken Shadie cut his teeth working during the pioneer television years in Australia on sketches for Channel Seven's variety show Revue 61 but it was writing comedy scripts for Paul Hogan and his characters like Leo Wanker that was to set him on the path to success.
Jul 3, 2020 · Ken Shadie, writer of the film Crocodile Dundee, at his home in Brooklyn, Sydney. In 1983 he was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing Crocodile Dundee. He’s also been recognised as a screenwriter for a number of television shows including The Mavis Bramston Show, News Revue, Number 96, The Paul Hogan Show and the first draft movie of The Phantom.
Screenwriter Ken Shadie, who wrote the first draft to the 1986 hit on a typewriter from the quiet northern Sydney hamlet of Brooklyn, shed light this week on working with the larrikin Paul Hogan, how that famous knife scene was hatched and fears the movie wouldn’t make money.
15 July, 2020. VALE KEN SHADIE. A tribute by the Australian Writers' Guild and Paul Hogan. "Ken Shadie was a comedy producer’s dream. A brief to Ken was ‘I need two sketches next week’, and in nine years he never failed to deliver funny, topical gems."
Mar 17, 2009 · TheAustralian. Updated 11:02PM March 17, 2009 , First published at 12:00AM February 16, 2008. CROCODILE Dundee screenwriter Ken Shadie dreams his membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will one day have a profound effect.
