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Died
  
15 May 2016

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Movies
  
Ratbag Hero, Burn the Butterflies, Outbreak of Love, Trial of Ned Kelly, Marion

Nominations
  
AACTA Award for Best Telefeature or Mini Series

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Alan Hopgood, Rowena Wallace, Ray Barrett, Marcus Graham, Roger Simpson

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Oscar Ralph Whitbread OAM (26 November 1929 – 16 May 2016) was an English-Australian producer who worked extensively in television.

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He moved to Australia in the late 1940s.

Personal life

Whitbread was married to Corinne Kerby. He died on 16 May 2016 after a long illness.

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  • Ice Circus (1963) (ice skating TV special)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1964) (ice skating TV special)
  • On Approval (1964) (TV movie) – producer
  • Corruption in the Palace of Justice (1964) (TV movie) – producer
  • The Winds of Green Monday (1965) (TV movie) – producer, director
  • Otherwise Engaged (1965) (TV movie) – producer
  • Duet on Wednesday (1965) (TV play) – producer
  • Photo Finish (1965) (TV movie) – producer
  • Plain Jane (1966) (TV movie) – producer
  • Slow Poison (1967) (TV movie) – producer
  • Love and War (1967) (TV movie) – producer
  • The Shifting Heart (1968) (TV movie) – producer
  • Delta (Australian TV series) (1969) (TV series) – director
  • Dynasty (1969) (TV series) – director
  • Bellbird (1970–77) (TV series) – producer
  • A Family at War (1970) (TV series) – director
  • The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1972) (TV movie)
  • Frank and Francesca (1973) (TV series)
  • Marion (1974) (miniseries) – producer, director
  • And the Big Men Fly (1974) (TV series) – producer
  • Rush (1975) (TV series) – producer, director
  • The Professional Touch (1976) (TV play)
  • Trial of Ned Kelly (1977) (TV movie)
  • Power Without Glory (1976) (mini series) – producer
  • Catspaw (1978) (TV series)
  • The Truckies (1978) (TV series)
  • Burn the Butterflies (1979) (TV movie)
  • A Wild Ass of a Man (1980) (TV movie)
  • Lucinda Brayford (1980) (mini series)
  • I Can Jump Puddles (1980)
  • Locusts and Wild Honey (1980) (TV series(
  • All the Green Year (1981) (mini series)
  • Outbreak of Love (1981) (mini series) – producer, director
  • The Young Wife (1984) (mini series) – producer, director
  • Golden Pennies (1985) (mini series) – produce, director
  • The Flying Doctors (1985) (mini series) – producer
  • The Flying Doctors (1986) (TV series) – producer, director
  • Studio 86 (1986) (TV series) – producer, director
  • Acropolis Now (1989) (TV series) – producer
  • The Power, the Passion (1989) (TV series) – producer
  • Ratbag Hero (1991) (mini series) – producer, director
  • Cluedo (1990–92) (TV series) – producer, director
  • Bush Patrol (1996) (TV series) – producer
  • The Balanced Particle Freeway (1997) (TV movie) – producer

    • References

    Oscar Whitbread Wikipedia
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