David Sale


David Sale, born Ernest Swindells is an English Australian author, television screenwriter and executive producer. He has contributed to many TV drama series, provided special material for Australian entertainers, and has worked as a producer, director, actor and journalist.

Career

Television scriptwriting

Born as Ernest Swindells in 1932 to an aircraft factory worker and his wife Lucy, he took to professional writing under the pseudonym of David Sale, and is perhaps best known as creator, writer and script editor of the highly influential television soap opera Number 96. Before that, he was Executive Producer of the satirical weekly comedy The Mavis Bramston Show. Both of these series were highly rated in their day and still rank amongst the most famous and influential programs to have appeared on Australian television.

Author (1970s)

His first two novels, written between TV assignments, were Come to Mother and The Love Bite. These were published in London in hardback in the 1970s and both were bought by Hollywood. Come to Mother was made into the television film Live Again, Die Again.

Publications 1990s

Television interrupted this flow of books, but in the 1990s Sale resumed his career as an author with Twisted Echoes ; Scorpion's Kiss and Hidden Agenda . His latest book is the memoir "Number 96, Mavis Bramston and Me" ) plus an audio version read by the author.

Theatre

He later tackled Musical Theatre for the first time with his co-written version of Sumner Locke Elliott's novel Careful, He Might Hear You.

Books