Sonia Borg
Appearance
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Born | Sonia Ingeborg Borg 20 February 1931 Vienna, Austria |
Died | 4 February 2016 (aged 84) Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Nationality | Austrian |
Citizenship | Australian |
Sonia Ingeborg Borg AM (20 February 1931 – 4 February 2016) was an Australian writer and producer, who was one of the leading screenwriters of films and TV in the 1970s. She moved to Australia from Germany (Vienna, Austria) in 1961 and worked as a television actress before becoming an actors' tutor at Crawford Productions in Melbourne. She then became a writer, and worked on most of Crawfords dramas at the time. In the late 1970s she also became known for writing films about animals.[1]
Select Writings
- Homicide (1964–73; TV series)
- Division 4 (1970–75; TV series)
- Matlock Police (1971–75; TV series)
- Rush (1974; TV series)
- Power Without Glory (1976; mini series)
- Solo One (1976; TV series)
- Lasseter (1976; unmade film about Lasseters search[2]
- Storm Boy (1976)
- Blue Fin (1978)
- The Min Min (1978; unmade feature)[1]
- Women of the Sun (1981; TV series)
- I Can Jump Puddles (1981; TV movies)
- Dusty (1983)
- Colour in the Creek (1985; TV series)
- Dark Age (1987)
- Ratbag Hero (1991; TV miniseries)
References
External links
- Sonia Borg at IMDb
- Sonia Borg at National Film and Sound Archive
- Obituary at Televisionau.com
- Sonia Borg at AustLit