Peter yeldham biography

          Peter Alan Yeldham OAM (25 April – 20 September ) was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist whose.!

          Peter Alan Yeldham OAM was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist whose career spanned five decades.

        1. Peter Alan Yeldham OAM was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist whose career spanned five decades.
        2. Born in Gladstone, NSW, Yeldham started his career in radio before travelling to England in with his wife Marge, and establishing.
        3. Peter Alan Yeldham OAM (25 April – 20 September ) was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist whose.
        4. Peter Yeldham was born on April 25, in Gladstone, New South Wales, Australia.
        5. Born April 25, , in Gladstone, New South Wales, Australia; son of Alan (a doctor) and Faith Yeldham; married Marjorie Crane, October 27, ;.

          6. Peter Yeldham

          Australian screenwriter (–)

          Peter Yeldham

          OAM

          Born25 April
          Died20 September (aged 95)
          Occupation(s)screenwriter, playwright and novelist
          AwardsCentenary Medal ()

          Peter Alan YeldhamOAM (25 April – 20 September )[1][2] was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist whose career spanned five decades.[3]

          Biography

          Peter Yeldham was born in Gladstone, near Smithtown, New South Wales, in Leaving Knox Grammar School at 16, Yeldham briefly became a jackaroo in Queensland.

          Then he returned to Sydney to join Radio 2GB, first as a messenger boy and then became junior scriptwriter. He wrote several scripts and a weekly column for the magazine The Listener In before being called up for the army at 18, going to Japan with the Occupation Force, where he served with the radio unit.

          After returning to civilian life he married and worked freelance, writing for Famous Tri