Harvey Shore
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Harvey Shore, Dip A ADM
is an Australian film and television writer/producer. He has won numerous awards and has over 3,000 hours of broadcast credits to his name. Shore is also a published author. He is best known for winning five Logie Awards as executive producer of the top-rating TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World
, hosted by journalist Simon Townsend
.
. He was educated at Cranbrook School Sydney and at Marist Brothers Agricultural College Campbelltown, and was offered a Teacher's Scholarship. But he also won a coveted scholarship to the Royal Military College Duntroon and he chose to accept that. He entered the Royal Military College
, Duntroon
, in January 1965 in the same class as General Peter Cosgrove
and in 1968 graduated as a First Lieutenant into Australian Intelligence Corps. He served in the Australian Regular Army until 1972, and then began a career as a writer/producer in film and television. His work in film and TV has won five Logie Award
s, two AFI (Australian Film Institute
) Awards, two International Broadcasting (Nagoya) Awards, a 'TV Star' Award, and the gold award for first prize at the Asian Broadcasting Union Festival, among many other awards.
He studied scriptwriting with the Australian Writers' Guild
(AWG), with Oscar-winning writer Elizabeth Kata (A Patch of Blue
) and with Australian drama scriptwriter Harold Lander. He is a past Chairman of the Associates Committee of the AWG
, and he taught scriptwriting both there and at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC-TV – where he started his career as a writer for Behind The News and later returned as an Executive Producer
of that same show). He also lectured on scriptwriting and producing in Australia and in Japan, and tutored in scriptwriting for Thomson Education Direct. He has been a script reader for the Australian Film Commission
, and for Village Roadshow Limited
. He has been a lead writer and a script editor (as well as a producer and executive producer) for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
, and has written and produced literally hundreds of shows from his first effort in 1972, to his most recent documentary Life Under Adolf Hitler for History Films. He has worked on over 30 feature films for Village Roadshow Corporation and Greater Union
. He has produced TV shows for all Australian networks except SBS (Special Broadcasting Service
).
Shore has also written, produced and hosted several radio series for ABC
Radio and for commercial syndicated radio networks (such as the long-running syndicated video review program Videobiz.)
, The American Broadcasting Company (Australasia), The Maritime Services Board of NSW, The Television Shopping Network, and OB Productions. His PR clients have included ABC-TV, the Greater Union Organisation, Kosciusko/Thredbo, Bay Books, Pan Books, Good Morning Sydney, Wonder World!, Qantas, Air NZ, Air India, British Airways
, Government of India
Tourist Office, Fiji
Travel Bureau, Vestron Video, REP Films, Newmont Television, Roadshow Coote and Carroll, Cumberland Press, and ROC Oil Company Limited.
Shore has written two books and works as a tutor in Scriptwriting and Public Relations for the distance learning company Cengage Education. Shore is also a regular columnist for Encore Magazine, the film and television industry’s journal of record, and a consultant for several TV production companies.
Shore joined the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard in 2007 and currently serves with Coast Guard Brisbane (Queensland Flotilla Two). He was appointed Media and PR Officer of the Flotilla in 2009. He gained Competent Crew status, and also won his first Operational Service Award in 2010. He was declared a Disaster Hero by the Queensland and Federal government in May 2011, and also won a Queensland Flood and Cyclone Citation from the State Government in that year, for work performed with his flotilla shipmates during the Brisbane Floods of January 2011.
Australian Defence Medal
The Australian Defence Medal is an Australian military decoration which recognises current and former Australian Defence Force personnel who completed an initial enlistment period, or four years service...
is an Australian film and television writer/producer. He has won numerous awards and has over 3,000 hours of broadcast credits to his name. Shore is also a published author. He is best known for winning five Logie Awards as executive producer of the top-rating TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World
Simon Townsend's Wonder World
Simon Townsend's Wonder World! was a multi-award–winning Australian children's television show that aired on the Ten Network from 1979 until 1986...
, hosted by journalist Simon Townsend
Simon Townsend
Simon Townsend is an Australian journalist who became a popular television host during the 1980s. He is currently a tutor in journalism.-Vietnam War Conscientious Objector:...
.
Early life
Shore is the son of Portia Geach Memorial Art Award-winning artist Ivy ShoreIvy Shore
Ivy Shore is an Australian artist , winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award and three times runner up in the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award.- External links :*...
. He was educated at Cranbrook School Sydney and at Marist Brothers Agricultural College Campbelltown, and was offered a Teacher's Scholarship. But he also won a coveted scholarship to the Royal Military College Duntroon and he chose to accept that. He entered the Royal Military College
Royal Military College
The Royal Military College can refer to:* Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Canada* Royal Military College Saint-Jean in Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada* Royal Military College, Duntroon in Campbell, Australian Capital Territory, Australia...
, Duntroon
Duntroon
Duntroon may refer to:* Royal Military College, Duntroon, in Canberra, Australia* Duntroon, Australian Capital Territory, Robert Campbell's property in the suburb of Campbell, Canberra* Duntroon, Ontario, Canada* Duntroon, New Zealand* Duntroon, Scotland...
, in January 1965 in the same class as General Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove
General Peter John Cosgrove AC, MC is a retired Australian Army officer. He was the Chief of the Defence Force from 3 July 2002 to 3 July 2005, when he retired from active service...
and in 1968 graduated as a First Lieutenant into Australian Intelligence Corps. He served in the Australian Regular Army until 1972, and then began a career as a writer/producer in film and television. His work in film and TV has won five Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
s, two AFI (Australian Film Institute
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
) Awards, two International Broadcasting (Nagoya) Awards, a 'TV Star' Award, and the gold award for first prize at the Asian Broadcasting Union Festival, among many other awards.
Film and television career
Harvey's extensive career now exceeds 3,000 hours of broadcast credits, including work on more than 30 feature films and over 60 television shows – in roles from scriptwriter to executive producer.He studied scriptwriting with the Australian Writers' Guild
Australian Writers' Guild
The Australian Writers' Guild is the professional association for all performance writers, that is, writers for film, television, radio, theatre, video and new media. The AWG was established in 1962 and is recognised throughout the industry in Australia as being the voice of performance writers...
(AWG), with Oscar-winning writer Elizabeth Kata (A Patch of Blue
A Patch of Blue
A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon , and a blind white female teenager, Selina , and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America...
) and with Australian drama scriptwriter Harold Lander. He is a past Chairman of the Associates Committee of the AWG
AWG
AWG may refer to:In science and technology:* American wire gauge, a standardized sizing system for electrically conducting wire* Arbitrary waveform generator, a piece of electronic test equipment used to generate electrical waveforms...
, and he taught scriptwriting both there and at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
(ABC-TV – where he started his career as a writer for Behind The News and later returned as an Executive Producer
Executive producer
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
of that same show). He also lectured on scriptwriting and producing in Australia and in Japan, and tutored in scriptwriting for Thomson Education Direct. He has been a script reader for the Australian Film Commission
Australian Film Commission
The Australian Film Commission was an Australian government agency with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a production arm responsible for production and commissioning of films for government...
, and for Village Roadshow Limited
Village Roadshow Limited
Village Roadshow Limited is an Australian media company with interests in cinema, theme parks, film production and distribution. The company is a publicly listed entity on the Australian Securities Exchange...
. He has been a lead writer and a script editor (as well as a producer and executive producer) for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
, and has written and produced literally hundreds of shows from his first effort in 1972, to his most recent documentary Life Under Adolf Hitler for History Films. He has worked on over 30 feature films for Village Roadshow Corporation and Greater Union
Greater Union
Greater Union, Birch Carroll and Coyle, Event Cinemas, Skycity Cinemas and Damodar Village Cinemas together form a chain of cinema multiplexes across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji...
. He has produced TV shows for all Australian networks except SBS (Special Broadcasting Service
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
).
Shore has also written, produced and hosted several radio series for ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
Radio and for commercial syndicated radio networks (such as the long-running syndicated video review program Videobiz.)
Other work
Additionally, Shore is an experienced PR Consultant, and has been Public Relations Manager for Village Roadshow LimitedVillage Roadshow Limited
Village Roadshow Limited is an Australian media company with interests in cinema, theme parks, film production and distribution. The company is a publicly listed entity on the Australian Securities Exchange...
, The American Broadcasting Company (Australasia), The Maritime Services Board of NSW, The Television Shopping Network, and OB Productions. His PR clients have included ABC-TV, the Greater Union Organisation, Kosciusko/Thredbo, Bay Books, Pan Books, Good Morning Sydney, Wonder World!, Qantas, Air NZ, Air India, British Airways
British Airways
British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. British Airways is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations...
, Government of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Tourist Office, Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
Travel Bureau, Vestron Video, REP Films, Newmont Television, Roadshow Coote and Carroll, Cumberland Press, and ROC Oil Company Limited.
Shore has written two books and works as a tutor in Scriptwriting and Public Relations for the distance learning company Cengage Education. Shore is also a regular columnist for Encore Magazine, the film and television industry’s journal of record, and a consultant for several TV production companies.
Shore joined the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard in 2007 and currently serves with Coast Guard Brisbane (Queensland Flotilla Two). He was appointed Media and PR Officer of the Flotilla in 2009. He gained Competent Crew status, and also won his first Operational Service Award in 2010. He was declared a Disaster Hero by the Queensland and Federal government in May 2011, and also won a Queensland Flood and Cyclone Citation from the State Government in that year, for work performed with his flotilla shipmates during the Brisbane Floods of January 2011.
Television credits
- Simon Townsend's Wonder WorldSimon Townsend's Wonder WorldSimon Townsend's Wonder World! was a multi-award–winning Australian children's television show that aired on the Ten Network from 1979 until 1986...
(TV series) - Number 96Number 96 (TV series)Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects...
- Behind The News
- Project Tiger
- Chance & Coincidence (special)
- The Way They Live
- David Smith’s Earthwatch
- Willesee At Seven
- The Afternoon Show
- Bright Ideas
- Ground Zero
- Help Your Neighbour
- Saturday at Rick’s
- The Guinness Olympics (special)
- TVTV
- Australia’s Funniest Home Videos
- The Ansett Entertainment Channel
- G.P.
- Newsreel
- Burke’s Backyard
- Moneyspinners
- Good Morning Sydney
- Carter & Stuff
- Australian Studies
- Open Minds
- Mathsbreak
- Fishermen of the South Pacific
- Kula – Argonauts of the West Pacific
- New Wonder World!
- You Say The Word
- Antarctica
- Rockets
- The IC Engine
- ConcordeConcordeAérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...
and supersonic flight - Whales & Whaling
- Zeppelins
- Two Koreas
- Japanese Coastal Fishing
- Paris Changes
- History of Suez CanalSuez CanalThe Suez Canal , also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation...
- Uganda & Amin
- Cane Toads
- DinosaurDinosaurDinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s - AstronomyAstronomyAstronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
- Wooden Cars
- Russian Space program
- Kites
- The Domino Theory
- Man In Space
- Aristotle OnassisAristotle OnassisAristotle Sokratis Onassis , commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a prominent Greek shipping magnate.- Early life :Onassis was born in Karatass, a suburb of Smyrna to Socrates and Penelope Onassis...
- Fisheries Research
- Endangered Wildlife
- American Indians
- Art of Assassination
- Rocket Men
- Los Muchachos Circus
- Hang Gliding
- GallipoliGallipoliThe Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace , the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" , meaning "Beautiful City"...
and ANZAC - The Western Front
- Life Under Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
- Snake Charmers
- History of Ideas – Gravity
- The Valley of The Kings
- The Taj MahalTaj MahalThe Taj Mahal is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal...
- Keoladeo National Park
Radio credits
- Video Biz
- Around The World
- The Way It Is
- Mark Twain’s Australia
Books
- From The Quay (University of NSW Press)
- G.P.-The Book of the TV Series (ABC Enterprises).