Phillip Grenville Mann

Phillip Grenville Mann (24 December 1921 – 19 June 1990) was an Australian actor, playwright, stage director and manager, and writer.

He won a series of prizes as a young writer.^[1] He served in the Royal Australian Navy.^[2]

He worked for six years in London. He became a staff writer at the ABC.^[3] He replaced Rex Rienits as drama editor at the ABC.^[4]

Select writings

• The Seas Between (1946) – radio play starring Peter Finch^[5]
• Dear Enemy (July 1951) – radio play^[6]
• The Cat Scratches (1954) - radio play
• Theatre Royal episode "Dead or Alive" (1956) – TV play – became Funnel Web
• Shadow Squad (1958) – TV series – various episodes
• The Verdict is Yours (1958) – TV series – various episodes
• The Probation Officer (1960) – TV series
• The Attorney General (1961) – TV play
• The Sergeant from Burralee (1961) – TV play^[7]
• The Patriots (1962) – TV series^[8]
• Funnel Web (1962) – TV play
• Ballad for One Gun' (1963) – TV play^[9]
• Day of Glory (1964) – play
• Luther (1964) – TV play – adaptation of the play by John Osborne^[10]
• The Keys of Heaven (1966) (novel)^[11]
• The Red Gardenia (1966) - radio play starring Ron Haddrick
• Undercover (1968) - radio play starring Richard Meikle
• Certain Women (1971) – TV series
• Eight Days a Week (1972) – play
• Behind the Legend - "Eddie Gilbert" (1974)
• Candles in the Sun (1978) – novel
• How Sleep the Brave (1979) – play
• Over to Mother – a play