STEVENS, David 1940–

PERSONAL

Born 1940, in Tiberias, Palestine (now Israel). Education: Trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

Addresses:

Manager—The Firm, 9465 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 212, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Director, writer, and producer. Worked as stage director and radio actor.

Awards, Honors:

Australian Film Institute Award (with Jonathan Hardy and Bruce Beresford), best screenplay, 1980, and Academy Award nomination (with Jonathan Hardy and Bruce Beresford), best adapted screenplay, 1981, both for "Breaker" Morant; Australian Film Institute Award, best adapted screenplay, and Montreal World Film Festival Award, best screenplay, both 1994, for The Sum of Us; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding writing for a miniseries or movie, 1998, for Merlin.

CREDITS

Television Coproducer; Miniseries:

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, ABC, 1996.

Mama Flora's Family, CBS, 1998.

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (also known as Aftershock—Das grosse Beben), CBS, 1999.

Television Director; Miniseries:

"Maydina the Shadow," Women of the Sun, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1981.

A Town Like Alice, SBS (Australia), also broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1981.

A Thousand Skies, 7 Network (Australia), 1985.

Television Director; Movies:

The John Sullivan Story, 9 Network (Australia), 1979.

Television Director; Episodic:

Directed episodes of Always Afternoon, Bluey, Homicide, Runaway Island, and Young Ramsay, all 7 Network (Australia); of The Outsiders, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; of Solo One, [Australia]; and of The Sullivans, 9 Network (Australia).

Film Director:

Roses Bloom Twice, 1977.

The Clinic, Roadshow, 1982, Satori, 1985.

Undercover, Roadshow, 1983.

Kansas, TransWorld Entertainment, 1988.

WRITINGS

Teleplays; Miniseries:

A Thousand Skies, 7 Network (Australia), 1985.

Queen (also known as Alex Haley's Queen; based on the novel by Alex Haley), CBS, 1993.

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, ABC, 1996.

Mama Flora's Family, CBS, 1998.

(With Peter Barnes) Merlin, NBC, 1998, published by Newmarket Press, 1998.

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (also known as Aftershock—Das grosse Beben), CBS, 1999.

Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (also known as Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women), NBC, 2001.

Teleplays; Movies:

Crime and Punishment (also known as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), NBC, 1998.

Teleplays; Episodic:

Prisoner (also known as Caged Women and Prisoner: Cell Block H), 10 Network (Australia), 1998, 2000.

Also writer for Rogue's Rock, Southern Television.

Screenplays:

(With Jonathan Hardy and Bruce Beresford) "Breaker" Morant, New World/Quartet Films, 1980.

The Sum of Us (based on his stage play), Samuel Goldwyn, 1995.

Robinson Crusoe (also known as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; based on the novel by Daniel Defoe), Miramax, 1998.

Stage Plays:

Author of The Sum of Us.