Miranda Downes
Miranda Downes (27 February 1950 – 3 August 1985) was an Australian screenwriter.[1] Ernest Arthur Knibb was convicted of her murder.[2]
Miranda (known as Mandy) attended Cumberland High School (Carlingford). She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales. Subsequently, she completed a course in "script writing" at the National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA).[3]
She worked as a production secretary in the film industry when she wrote an original script, Undercover (1983). She later started working on a script called Cane about Italian cane cutters in Queensland, when she was murdered on a beach north of Cairns.[4][5] Ernest Knibb was arrested after an investigation by the TV show 60 Minutes.[6]
Cane became the mini series Fields of Fire.[7][2]
Select credits
[edit | edit source]- Undercover (1983)
- First Love - "The House That Jack Built"
- The Last Resort (1988)
- Fields of Fire
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ David Elfick, "Obituary: Miranda Downes", Cinema Papers, September 1985 p 3
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- ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p38-39
External links
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