Esben Storm
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| Born | 26 May 1950 Støvring, Denmark |
| Died | 28 March 2011 (aged 60) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 1972–2008 |
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Esben Storm (26 May 1950 – 28 March 2011) was a
Early life
Storm came to Australia with parents Laurits and Ane in 1958, after Laurits lost the family farm to lawyers. After settling in Melbourne, his father worked as a builder's labourer and built a darkroom, where Esben learned photographic processing, composition and lighting.
Career
Storm was well known for his work with the Australian Children's Television Foundation, headed by Patricia Edgar, where he worked for 15 years. The company sold programs to 92 countries, and Storm was involved in writing, acting, editing, and directing numerous programs, including Round the Twist.[1] He worked to adapt John Marsden's Tomorrow series but lost the rights to the film.
Film making
Storm started making films at 18 with his then partner
Storm also worked on several television series such as
Acting
In 1976, Storm acted in Hanging About, a film by Carol Jerrems, who was then his girlfriend and living with him in Willoughby. He appeared in Room to Move and in two episodes of Winners. He played Pat in Phoenix and Colin in an episode of Blue Heelers.
Feature film roles included The Coca-Cola Kid, Wrong World (both 1985) and Young Einstein (1988).
Storm’s last acting role was in the medical drama series All Saints.[3]
Death
Storm died, aged 60, on 28 March 2011.[4]
Filmography
Film (as actor)
- Doors (1969, short)
- In His Prime (1972, short)
- Stephanie (1972, short)
- A Motion Picture (1972, short)
- Hanging About: A Short Film by Carol Jerrems (1976, short)
- Going Down (1982) as Michael
- Birthin' Hips (1983)
- The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) as Country Hotel Manager
- Wrong World (1985) as Lawrence
- Pandemonium (1987) as E.B. De Woolf / Husband
- Les Patterson Saves the World (1987) as Russian Scientist
- Young Einstein (1988)
- Terrormisu: A Night Of Just Desserts (1993)
- Rusty & The Bathtub Banana (1993)
Film (as crew)
- 27A (1974) as writer & director
- In Search of Anna (1978) as writer, director & producer
- With Prejudice(1982) as director
- Stanley (1984) as director
- Deadly (1991) as writer & director
- Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers (1998) as creator, scriptwriter & dialogue director
- Subterano (2003) as writer & director
Unmade films
- Angel Gear (mid-1970s)
- Bondi Blue (early 1980s) – Reg Grundy withdrew financing just before filming was to start[5]
- Dirty Barry (1980s)[5]
- Doctor Flatus (1994)
Television (as actor)
- With Prejudice (1983, documentary)
- Room to Move as Tom
- Winners (1985) as Leo George (episode: The Other Facts of Life)
- More Winners(1985) as Waiter (episode: The Big Wish)
- Alice to Nowhere (1986, miniseries) as Frog
- Round the Twist (1989–2001) as Mr Snapper
- Phoenix as Pat
- Blue Heelers as Colin Roper
- All Saints
Television (as crew)
- Touch the Sun: Devil’s Hill(1988) as director
- Winners (1985) as director (episode: The Other Facts of Life)
- Round the Twist (1989) as director/script consultant, (1991; 2000-01) as writer/screenplay
- Crash Zone (1991-2001)
- Sky Trackers (1995) as script consultant
- The Genie from Down Under (1996-98) as scriptwriter & director
- Blue Heelers as director (episode: Breaking the Cycle)
- Kick (2007) as director
Awards
References
- ^ Esben Storm, 1950 - 2011., The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2011.
- ^ Cover, July 1977, Cinema papers, Global Village Cinema Publications, 1977
- ^ a b Finney, Sarah: Vale Esben Storm (1950 – 2011) Archived 14 April 2013 at archive.today, Australian Film Institute, 29 March 2011.
- ^ Industry mourns Esben Storm Archived 1 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Encore, 29 March 2011.
- ^ a b "Interview with Esben Storm", Signis, 22 August 1995 Archived 3 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 21 November 2012.
- ^ AFI Award Winners Feature Categories 1958-2009 Archived 7 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Film Institute.
External links
- Esben Storm at IMDb
- Storm Productions
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