Christopher David Lee (born 28 March 1947) is an Australian scriptwriter who has been an Australian Associated Press journalist and foreign correspondent and has worked as a script consultant in New Zealand, Singapore and New York City. He has won an AFI Award and four AWGIE Awards and is the recipient of a Centenary Medal and a Queensland Premier's Literary Award.RGM Artist Group – Christopher Lee Retrieved 13 August 2012
Early life Lee is the son of a country doctor and grew up in western New South Wales. He attended Newington College (1962–1964) as a boarderNewington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 115 and studied at Sydney University (BA) and the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Screenwriting He was the creator and writer of the ABC drama series Stringer, head writer and then script executive of the ABC-BBC drama series Police Rescue. He wrote four of the six Cody telemovies, and was co-creator and head writer of Big Sky. He was an originating writer (with Judi McCrossin) of The Secret Life of Us and co-creator and Head Writer of the short-lived soap opera Echo Point. He is the co-creator of the television series Rush.Australian Television Information Archive Retrieved 13 August 2012 He wrote the SBS teleplay That Man's Father, co-wrote the telemovie, Secret Men's Business (with Nicholas Hammond) and wrote the 4-hour mini-series Do or Die. Most recently, Lee has been the writer of the 2011 mini-series Paper Giants: The Birth of CleoPaper Giants – Credits Retrieved 13 August 2012 and the 2012 mini-series Howzat! Kerry Packer's War and the 8-hour mini-series "Gallipoli".
Publishing He is a short story writer, author of the novel Bush Week published by Angus & Robertson and writer of the book Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, published by University of New South Wales Press.Howzat, swinging sounds and the Seventies Retrieved 7 August 2017. In 2015, his novel Seasons of War was published by Penguin Australia.Gallipoli from a soldier's eye in a novel by screenwriter Christopher Lee Retrieved 7 August 2015.
Lecturer Lee has lectured in screenwriting at the University of Canberra, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Awards His hour of Bodysurfer won an AFI Award, and he is a four-time AWGIE Award winner: for the documentary Saturday, Saturday; the mini-series Do or Die; the telemovie pilot for The Secret Life of Us; and for an episode of Rush which he co-created and produced the script for. Lee was awarded the Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian televisionHe is the recipient of the Fox Fellowship for Excellence in Screenwriting. It's an Honour Retrieved 13 August 2012 and won a Queensland Premier's Literary Award in 2011.Queensland Premier's Literary Awards – 2011 Retrieved 13 August 2012
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