Miranda Downes
Miranda Downes (died 3 July 1985) was an Australian screenwriter.[1] Ernest Arthur Knibb was convicted of her murder.[2]
She worked as a production secretary in the film industry when she wrote an original script, Undercover (1983). She later start working on a script called Cane about Italian cane cutters in Queensland, when she was murdered on a beach north of Cairns.
Cane became the mini series Fields of Fire.[3][2]
Select Credits
- Undercover (1983)
- First Love - "The House That Jack Built"
- The Last Resort
- Fields of Fire
References
- ↑ David Elfick, "Obituary: Miranda Downes", Cinema Papers, September 1985 p 3
- 1 2 Guppy, Damon (4 September 2012). "Convicted killer Ernest Arthur Knibb, 71, eyes parole after 25 years behind bars". The Cairns Post. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p38-39
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