Jon Cleary

WriterProducer
Born
November 22, 1917
Died
July 19, 2010

Left school at 15; became commercial artist, film cartoonist, laundryman and bushworker. First novel won second prize in Australia's biggest literary contest, launching his writing career. Novel "Peter's Pence" one American Edgar Allen Poe Prize as best crime novel of 1974.

Producer

Four Desperate Men(1959)

Self

Parkinson in Australia(1979)as Self
On Location with 'The Sundowners'(1960)as Self - Host, Narrator & Writer of 'The Sundowners' source novel