Herbert Creswick Jenkinson (14 April 1924- 22 July 2013) was an Australian screenwriter, producer and director. As a screenwriter, he wrote the film Captain Thunderbolt (1953) as well as episodes of the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.Skippy at Australian TV
Career Jenkinson adapted a number of works for the stage, including the version of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière which was performed by Peter Finch and the Mercury Mobile Players in 1948. This production was seen by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and led to Olivier inviting Finch to Australia.Stephen Vagg, 'Finch, fry and factories: a brief history of Mercury Theatre,' Australasian Drama Studies, 50, Apr 2007, 18-35
He also worked extensively in radio, including as producer and writer on The Black Museum radio series starring Orson Welles,'The Black Museum: Murder Most English', By Thomas "Ratman" Swafford, Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club, 2010 creator of the drama series Address Unknown, and as a producer for the radio program AM.'AM celebrates 35 years of radio current affairs broadcasting', ABC News Online, Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Jenkinson was born in Carlton, Victoria andserved in the Australian Navy as a steward from 1942 until 1946.Herbert Jenkinson at Nominal Roll
Select credits Imaginary Invalid (1948) The Pickwick Papers (1948) – play Willow Bend (1951) – radio serial Captain Thunderbolt (1953) - film script Too Young to Die (1963) – radio serial Australian Playhouse - "Haywire" (1966) - TV script Skippy (1967) - various episodes Motel (1968) - various episodes
References
External links
Creswick Jenkinson at AusStage Creswick Jenkinson at National Film and Sound Archive