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Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014)[1] was an Australian film and television screenwriter and actor.

Career

A member of the Australian Writer Guild for over 30 years,[2] Truman's television credits include Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, The Strip, Sea Patrol, Last Man Standing, The Alice, Stingers (nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 118), McLeod's Daughters, Neighbours (for which he wrote 148 episodes, and was also nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 4155), Home and Away as Sam Barlow in 1988, E Street, A Country Practice, Fat Tony & Co., Winter, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[3] He also wrote for Underbelly: Razor (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), Underbelly: Badness, and Underbelly: Squizzy. In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for Underbelly: Badness.[3]

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.[3]

Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57.[3][4]

Filmography

As Writer

Year	Title	Note
1994	A Country Practice	2 episodes
1999	The New Girlfriend
2000	Above the Law	1 episode
2003	McLeod's Daughters	2 episodes
2004	Stingers	31 episodes
2005	Last Man Standing	1 episode
	Blue Heelers	2 episodes
2006	The Alice	3 episodes
2009	All Saints	8 episodes
	Rescue Special Ops	1 episodes
2010	Rush	2 episodes
	City Homicide	9 episodes
2011	Sea Patrol	14 episodes
2012	Tricky Business	2 episodes
2013	Packed to the Rafters	10 episodes
	Home and Away	4 episodes
2014	Fat Tony & Co.	2 episodes
	Neighbours	148 episodes
2015	The Doctor Blake Mysteries	1 episode

As Actor

Year	Title	Role	Note
1982	Running on Empty	Country Boy	Film
1983	Patrol Boat	Lieutenant Mitchell	Episode: "Tango Victor"
	The Wild Duck	Johnson	Film
	Scales of Justice	Detective Sergeant Matthews	2 episodes
	Chase Through the Night	Eric	TV movie
1984	Fast Talking	Detective	Film
1985	Colour in the Creek	Farmer	Episode: "The Great Depression"
	Bliss	Joel	Film
	A Thousand Skies	George Pond	Episode: "Chapter 3: The Challenges/Chapter 4: The Triumph"
1986	The Blue Lightning	Sky Operator	TV movie
	The Challenge	Johan Valentijn	TV mini series
1987	Bullseye	Sergeant Willis	Film
	Cassandra	Devlin	Film
1988	The 13th Floor	Bert	Film
	Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer	Osmar White	TV movie
	Home and Away	Sam Barlow	19 episodes
	A Cry in the Dark	Mr. McCombe	Film
	A Country Practice	Tim Flanagan / Alby Goddard	4 episodes
1989	The Heroes	Cobber Cain	TV movie
1990	Secret Weapon	Stephen Grey	TV movie
	The Flying Doctors	Barry	2 episodes
1991	Flirting	Mr. Morris Cutts	Film
	The Great Air Race	Geoff Hernsworth	2 episodes
	Till There Was You	Nobby	Film
	Spotswood	Ron	Film
1992	G.P.	Terry Duncan	Episode: "The Last Waltz"
	Children of the Dragon	Theo	TV Series
	Police Rescue	Harry Green	Episode: "Judgement Day"
	The Adventures of Skippy	Manager / Gareth	2 episodes
1993	Shotgun Wedding	Detective Ted Jones	Film
	Home and Away	Matthew Thompson	32 episodes
	The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End	Manager	TV mini-series
1994	Time Trax	Jake	Episode: "A Close Encounter"
1995	Rough Diamonds	Arthur Holdings	Film
1996	Race the Sun	Ed Webster	Film
	Lilian's Story	Head Orderly	Film
	Whipping Boy	Bert	Film
1997	Doing Time for Patsy Cline	Warren	Film
1999	Dog's Head Bay	Mike	7 episodes
	Envy	Phil	Film
2002	The Quiet American	Dancing American	Film
	The Nugget	George	Film
2006	Superman	Gil	Film
2012	Careless Love	Client with Dog	Film
2014	A Place to Call Home	Father Joe	4 episodes, (final appearance)

References

External links

• TruMoney Films
• Jeff Truman at IMDb
• Movie Tickets Database at archive.today (archived 2013-01-25)
• RGM Database

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