John P. McLeod (died 1965) was an Australian writer and broadcaster. For a time he was an in-house screenwriter for F.W. Thring at Efftee Studios.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 182.
He also worked for the ABC and wrote a number of humorous novels.
Selected writings A Ticket in Tatts (1934) – screenplay The Nawab's Necklace; Being Case 102 from the Chronicles of Clipper and Brown, the Dumbest Detectives Ever Devised (1935) – radio play The Leech; Or, Detectives Don't Care, Being the Hundred and Oneth Case of Clipper and Brown, the Dumbest Detectives Ever Devised (1935) – radio play Typhoon Treasure (1938) – script Way Down South (1940) Funtasia Digest (1941) Frolics in Politics (1941) The Progress of Pete (1944) Quipster Delight (1945) Jester Digest (1945) Where Old Friends Meet (1964)
Unfilmed screenplays It was announced that McLeod would adapt the following novels for Efftee: James! Don't Be a Fool by E. V. Timms Along the Road by McLeod
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