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Kenneth George Shadie OAM (8 December 1935 – 29 June 2020) was an Australian screenwriter, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John Cornell.
Ken Shadie was a writer and producer, known for Crocodile Dundee (1986), Snake Gully with Dad and Dave (1972) and Number 96 (1972). He was married to Pamela (Pam) Jameson. He died on 29 June 2020 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Screenwriter Ken Shadie cut his teeth working during the pioneer television years in Australia on sketches for Channel Seven's variety show Revue 61 but it was writing comedy scripts for Paul Hogan and his characters like Leo Wanker that was to set him on the path to success.
Jul 3, 2020 · Ken Shadie who co-wrote the internationally acclaimed movie Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John Cornell has died at the age of 84.
Mar 18, 2022 · According to the history books, renowned writer Ken Shadie wrote the famed “bomb” episode of Number 96. A 1975 cliffhanger storyline, in which key characters perished in an apartment block bomb (years before Melrose Place visited the same storyline), shocked viewers nearly as much as the nudity and bed-hopping it was famous for.
Jul 26, 2020 · Screenwriter Ken Shadie, best known for Crocodile Dundee, has died, aged 84. He co-wrote Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John Cornell in 1986. It became the biggest independent film in movie history at US$328 million, and the highest-grossing film of all-time in Australia at $47.7m.
Jul 26, 2020 · Ken Shadie, who co-wrote the internationally acclaimed movie with Hoges and John “Strop” Cornell, died at the age of 84 on Monday. ‘That’s not a knife’: Paul Hogan in that memorable scene from Crocodile Dundee.
