Anthony Scott Veitch

Anthony Scott Veitch (6 January 1914 – 23 February 1983) was an Australian writer of radio, films, novels and TV. He worked for a number of years in British film and TV. His feature credits include The Kangaroo Kid and Coast of Skeletons (1964). He wrote more than 100 novels, including westerns and historical fiction.

Biography Veitch was born in Scotland. He moved to Australia when he was fourteen. He did a variety of jobs, then joined the church and studied for two years before deciding to leave.

Veitch worked in publicity and broke into radio writing the radio adaptation of the film Rhodes of Africa in 1936 then he joined to company of James Raglan.

While writing he was advertising manager for 2KO, Newcastle, and servied in the army in intelligence. After the war he focused on writing. Mutiny on the Bounty (1941) - radio serial Road to Tokyo (1945) Fog Bound (1947) - stage play Courage (1947) - radio feature Torch of Remembrance (1947) - radio feature Grief Goes Over (1947) - radio play Shadow radio The Strange Destiny of Lady Stanhope - radio serial Transatlantic Liner - radio serial Shenandoah (1947) Mantle of Greatness (1948) - radio series The Tender Heart (1948–52) - radio serial The Second Mrs Manning (1949) - radio serial Fly Away Peter (1949) - radio play The Saxby Millions (1949) - radio serial Short Story (1950) - radio play The Kangaroo Kid (1950) - feature film The Remarkable Mr Robinson (1950) radio play Vengeance is Mine (1951) - radio serial Dangerous Lady (1951) - radio serial Harp in the South (1951) - radio serial Hart of the Territory (1951) - radio serial Apple Trees (1952) - radio serial Opal of Destiny (1952) - radio serial Shirley Butler (1953) - radio feature The Battling Bensons - radio serial Parrish without Gates (1955) - radio feature No Hiding Place (1963) - TV episode Crane (1964) - TV episode Coast of Skeletons - film This Man Craig - TV episode Overland Patrol (1966–67) - radio adventure series Champion House (1967) - TV episode Six Steps in the Dark (1967) - radio play The Young Pioneers (1967) radio serial about Auystralia in the 1830s The Bloody Judge (1970) - film Mister Pybus (1970) - radio series The View from Mount Stromlo (1973) - radio play The Darling Darcy (1973) - radio play Ricochet (1974) - radio thriller series Northward the Coast (1978) - radio play Blindworm (1978) radio serial The Seafarer (1979) - radio serial about Mary Bryant A Crying in the Night (1979) - radio play based on the life of Frederick Bailey Deeming - won Awgie Spindrift: The Mary Bryant Story (1980) - book Run from the Morning (1980) - book Roses and Boronia (1980) - radio serial Roses and Boronia (1981) - novel Cat in a Pepper Tree (1982) radio serial The Currency Lass