Jeff Truman


Jeffrey Maxwell Truman was an Australian film and television screenwriter and actor.

Career

A member of the Australian Writer Guild for over 30 years, Truman's television credits include ', City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, The Strip, Sea Patrol, Last Man Standing, The Alice, Stingers, McLeod's Daughters, Neighbours, Home and Away as Sam Barlow in 1988, E Street, A Country Practice, Fat Tony & Co., Winter, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries. He also wrote for ', ', and '. In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for Underbelly: Badness.
Truman wrote the feature film Envy which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. He also had a small role in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.
Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57.

Filmography

As Writer

As Actor