Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014)[1] was an Australian film and television screenwriter and actor.

Career

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A member of the Australian Writer Guild for over 30 years,[2] Truman's television credits include Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, The Strip, Sea Patrol, Last Man Standing, The Alice, Stingers (nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 118), McLeod's Daughters, Neighbours (for which he wrote 148 episodes, and was also nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 4155), Home and Away, E Street, A Country Practice, Fat Tony & Co., Winter, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[3] He also wrote for Underbelly: Razor (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), Underbelly: Badness, and Underbelly: Squizzy. In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for Underbelly: Badness.[3]

Truman wrote the feature film Envy which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. He also had a small role in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.[3]

Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57.[3][4]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Note
1982 Running on Empty Country Boy Film
1983 The Wild Duck Johnson Film
Chase Through the Night Eric TV movie
1984 Fast Talking Detective Film
1985 Bliss Joel Film
1986 The Blue Lightning Sky Operator TV movie
1987 Bullseye Sergeant Willis Film
Cassandra Devlin Film
1988 The 13th Floor Bert Film
Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer Osmar White TV movie
A Cry in the Dark Mr. McCombe Film
1989 The Heroes Cobber Cain TV movie
1990 Secret Weapon Stephen Grey TV movie
1991 Flirting Mr. Morris Cutts Film
Till There Was You Nobby Film
Spotswood Ron Film
1993 Shotgun Wedding Detective Ted Jones Film
1995 Rough Diamonds Arthur Holdings Film
1996 Race the Sun Ed Webster Film
Lilian's Story Head Orderly Film
Whipping Boy Bert Film
1997 Doing Time for Patsy Cline Warren Film
1999 Envy (aka The New Girlfriend) Phil Film
2002 The Quiet American Dancing American Film
The Nugget George Film
2006 Superman Returns Gil Film
2012 Careless Love Client with Dog Film

Television

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Year Title Role Note
1983 Patrol Boat Lieutenant Mitchell TV series
Episode: "Tango Victor"
Scales of Justice Detective Sergeant Matthews Miniseries
2 episodes
1985 Colour in the Creek Farmer TV series
Episode: "The Great Depression"
A Thousand Skies George Pond Miniseries
Episodes: "Chapter 3: The Challenges / Chapter 4: The Triumph"
1986 The Challenge Johan Valentijn Miniseries
1988 Home and Away Sam Barlow TV series
19 episodes
A Country Practice Tim Flanagan / Alby Goddard TV series
4 episodes
1990 The Flying Doctors Barry TV series
2 episodes
1991 The Great Air Race Geoff Hernsworth Miniseries
2 episodes
1992 G.P. Terry Duncan TV series
Episode: "The Last Waltz"
Children of the Dragon Theo TV series
TV series
Police Rescue Harry Green TV series
Episode: "Judgement Day"
The Adventures of Skippy Manager / Gareth TV series
2 episodes
1993 Home and Away Matthew Thompson TV series
32 episodes
The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End Manager Miniseries
1994 Time Trax Jake TV series
Episode: "A Close Encounter"
1999 Dog's Head Bay Mike TV series
7 episodes
2014 A Place to Call Home Father Joe TV series
4 episodes
(final appearance)

Writing

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Year Title Note
1989-93 E Street TV series
1992 Children of the Dragon TV series
4 episodes
1994 A Country Practice TV series
2 episodes
1999 Envy (aka The New Girlfriend) Film
2000 Above the Law TV series
1 episode
2003 McLeod's Daughters TV series
2 episodes
2004 Stingers TV series
31 episodes
2005 Last Man Standing TV series
1 episode
Blue Heelers TV series
2 episodes
2006 The Alice Miniseries
3 episodes
2008 The Strip TV series
2009 All Saints TV series
8 episodes
Rescue Special Ops TV series
1 episodes
2010 Rush TV series
2 episodes
City Homicide TV series
9 episodes
2011 Sea Patrol TV series
14 episodes
Underbelly: Razor TV series
2012 Tricky Business TV series
2 episodes
Underbelly: Badness TV series
2013 Underbelly: Squizzy TV series
Packed to the Rafters TV series
10 episodes
Home and Away TV series
4 episodes
2014 Fat Tony & Co. TV series
2 episodes
Neighbours TV series
148 episodes
2015 Winter TV series
The Doctor Blake Mysteries TV series
1 episode

References

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  1. ^ "Jeffrey (Jeff) Maxwell Truman". HeavenAddress. HeavenAddress. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. ^ Gawler, Peter (3 December 2014). "Vale Jeff Truman". Inside Film. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d Knox, David (2 December 2014). "Vale: Jeff Truman". TV Tonight. TV Tonight. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Jeff Truman". tenplay. Ten Network. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
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