Bevan Lee

Bevan John Lee (born 7 November 1950) is an Australian writer and executive best known for creating the TV dramas All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners & Losers and A Place to Call Home.

Career Lee was an actor before turning to writing, working his way up to be script producer of the TV serial Sons and Daughters. He also rewrote the first episode of Home and Away, a show which he has script produced at various stages over the years. Lee was network script executive at Channel Nine for eight years in the 1990s before returning to Channel Seven, where he took part in the creation and development of such series as All Saints, Always Greener, Marshall Law and headLand, forming a notable creative partnership with Seven's head of network drama John Holmes. He also created 2012's A Place to Call Home, and the 2020 series Between Two Worlds for Seven.

Personal life Lee is gay and in 2007 he was nominated as one of the 25 most influential lesbian and gay people in Australia by online digital media site SameSame.

Filmography Television The numbers in writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

Title Year Credited as Network Notes Creator Writer Secret Valley 1980 (1) ABC Sons and Daughters 1982–87 (118) Seven Network Script editor Prisoner 1985–86 (8) Network 10 Story editor Storyline A Country Practice 1986 (1) Seven Network Home and Away 1988–2011 (30) Seven Network Writer Story editor Script producer Family and Friends 1990 Nine Network Unknown episodes The Flying Doctors 1991 (5) Nine Network Story editor The Adventures of Skippy 1992–93 (5) Nine Network Ship to Shore 1993 ABC Producer Spellbinder 1995 Nine Network Script consultant Halifax f.p. 1995–96 Nine Network Script executive All Saints 1998–2009 (4) Seven Network Always Greener 2001–03 (1) Seven Network Marshall Law 2002–03 Seven Network headLand 2005–06 (1) Seven Network Packed to the Rafters 2008–13 Seven Network Winners & Losers 2011–16 (3) Seven Network Producer A Place to Call Home 2013–18 (26) Seven Network Script producer Between Two Worlds 2020 (4) Seven Network Back to the Rafters2021 (3) Amazon Prime Video

Acting credits Film Title Year Role Notes The Bucks Party 1978 Short film Harlequin 1980 Mr. Robinson Touch and Go 1980 Fisherman

Television Title Year Role Notes Falcon Island 1981 Vim Van Dorn