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Tony Morphett – The Bottom Drawer. Anthony David Morphett (10 March 1938 – 2 June 2018) was an Australian screenwriter, who created or co-created many Australian television series, including Dynasty, Certain Women, Sky Trackers, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Above the Law and Rain Shadow. Morphett wrote eight novels, and wrote or co-wrote seven ...
May 10, 2021 · Tony Morphet was born in the small town of Kokstad on 1 April 1940, the youngest child of immigrants from Yorkshire. His farm upbringing left him with a deep respect for the harsh realities of ...
May 14, 2021 · Tony Morphet, 1940—2021, RIP. Tony Morphet, who died in Cape Town on 2 May, aged eighty-one, led a professional life—as teacher, university lecturer and activist, literary and art critic, professor of adult education, literacy specialist, and consultant to community organisations—that was marked by a rare capacity for friendship ...
- David Attwell
Tony Morphet, who has died at 81, was a revered university lecturer, art critic and activist, the son of Yorkshire Dales farmers, who was a leading figure in shaping adult education in South Africa.
4 min. Two men murmured over the windswept, sea-stunned days of my late youth in Cape Town – benign augurers who, without much reason beyond their selflessness, moved decisively to my aid when I ...
Tony Morphet was an English literary scholar and a leading figure in shaping adult education in South Africa, best known for his work on South African anti-apartheid intellectual Rick Turner. In thinking of his generous spirit of scholarly collaboration, we look back at his opening remarks for the Home and Away Exhibition in 2010, hosted by the CHR and Ifa Lethu Foundation at Iziko National ...
Biography. Tony Morphett worked as an interviewer and reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Daily Telegraph, before turning to freelance writing. His first two novels Mayor's Nest (1964) and Fitzgerald (1965) were followed by a short story, Objector (1966) and the novel Dynasty (1967), both of which were soon afterwards ...
