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Jon Cleary is a Scriptwriter Australien born on 22 november 1917

Jon Cleary

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Birth name Jon Stephen Cleary
Nationality Australie
Birth 22 november 1917
Death 19 july 2010 (at 92 years)
Awards Edgar Award

Jon Cleary, parfois orthographié à tort John Cleary, né le 22 novembre 1917 à Sydney, Australie, et décédé le 19 juillet 2010, est un écrivain et scénariste australien.

Biography

Après ses études chez les frères maristes à Randwick, un faubourg de Sydney, il exerce divers petits métiers : livreur, représentant de commerce, peintre d'enseigne... Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est lieutenant dans les forces impériales australiennes et participe aux campagnes du Moyen-Orient et de la Nouvelle-Guinée britannique.

Démobilisé, il devient écrivain à plein temps, sauf entre 1948 et 1961, alors qu'il est journaliste pour l'agence gouvernementale australienne à Londres, puis à New York.

Son œuvre abordent divers genres, mais présentent une prédilection marquée pour le roman policier et le roman d'aventures. Il remporte l'Edgar du meilleur roman en 1975 avec le roman Peter's Pence non traduit en France.

Jon Cleary a également travaillé en tant que scénariste au cinéma et à la télévision, adaptant plus d'une fois ses propres récits, notamment la saga familiale Horizons sans frontières (The Sundowners), pour le film de Fred Zinnemann.

Usually with

Alexander Baron
Alexander Baron
(1 films)
Carlo Giustini
Carlo Giustini
(2 films)
Harry Watt
Harry Watt
(1 films)
Gerry Duggan
Gerry Duggan
(2 films)
John Barry
John Barry
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jon Cleary (8 films)

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Scriptwriter

High Road to China
High Road to China (1983)
, 1h45
Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Cassandra Gava
Roles Novel
Rating59% 2.9988852.9988852.9988852.9988852.998885
Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) is a society heiress and flapper living the high-life in 1920s Istanbul. She needs to find her father (Wilford Brimley) before he is officially declared dead or risk losing her inheritance to his scheming business partner Bentik (Robert Morley). She hires WWI ace-pilot Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) and his planes to locate her father. O'Malley is eager to take the job as he needs to leave town rather urgently himself. However, Eve, also an accomplished pilot, is determined to accompany him in his other aircraft, which causes the first of many arguments between Istanbul and China.
Scobie Malone
Scobie Malone (1975)
, 1h38
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Thompson, Judy Morris, Shane Porteous, James Condon, Bryan Brown, Kevin Manser
Roles Novel
Rating52% 2.6460552.6460552.6460552.6460552.646055
Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone (Jack Thompson) and his offsider (Shane Porteous) investigate the murder of Helga (Judy Morris), whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House. Malone had met Helga previously and discovers she was a high class prostitute who was also a mistress of the Minister for Culture (James Workman) and involved with film director Jack Savannah (Joe Martin). In flashback it is shown that Helga was blackmailing the minister and his wife (Jacqueline Knott), along with a crime boss, Mr Sin (Noel Ferrier).
Sidecar Racers
Sidecar Racers (1975)
, 1h40
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Genres Drama
Actors Ben Murphy, Wendy Hughes, Peter Graves, John Meillon, John Derum, Serge Lazareff
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.9530352.9530352.9530352.9530352.953035
Jeff Rayburn, an American surfer visiting Australia, gets involved in the world of sidecar motorcycle racing. He becomes friends with Dave Ferguson and the two of them form a champion team.
Nobody Runs Forever
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
, 1h41
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Daliah Lavi, Burt Kwouk, Camilla Sparv
Roles Novel
Rating60% 3.048923.048923.048923.048923.04892
New South Wales Police Sergeant Scobie Malone (Taylor) is summoned to Sydney by the Premier of New South Wales (Leo McKern) who at the time was the controversial Sir Robert Askin. The Australian High Commissioner in London, Sir James Quentin (Plummer) is wanted for a 25-year-old murder charge, that the Premier, Quentin's gruff political rival, has discovered.
The Sundowners
The Sundowners (1960)
, 2h13
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Bryan Pringle
Roles Novel
Rating70% 3.546093.546093.546093.546093.54609
Irish-Australian Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) is a sheep drover and shearer, roving the sparsely-populated back country with his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) and son Sean (Michael Anderson, Jr.). They are sundowners, constantly moving, pitching their tent whenever the sun goes down. Ida and Sean want to settle down, but Paddy has wanderlust and never wants to stay in one place for long. While passing through the bush the family meet refined Englishman Rupert Venneker (Peter Ustinov) and hire him to help drive a large herd of sheep to the town of Cawndilla. Along the way, they survive a dangerous brush fire.
The Siege of Pinchgut
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
, 1h40
Directed by Harry Watt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Aldo Ray, Heather Sears, Neil McCallum, Victor Maddern, Carlo Giustini, Alan Tilvern
Roles Ecrivain
Rating62% 3.1413653.1413653.1413653.1413653.141365
An ambulance drives through Sydney, having been hijacked by escaped convict Matt Kirk and his three accomplices, Matt's brother Johnny, Italian Luke and Bert. The four men manage to avoid detection at Sydney Hospital, and head out through Sydney Harbour in a purchased vessel, intending to go north. However the boat breaks down before they can get through Sydney Heads and the men decide to take refuge in Fort Denison (also known as Pinchgut), unaware it is occupied by caretaker Pat Fulton, his wife and daughter Ann.