David Sale, born Ernest Swindells (Manchester, 1932[1]) is an English-born author, television screenwriter, playwright, producer, director, actor and journalist.
He emigrated to Australia in 1950, and has contributed to many TV drama series, and provided special material for Australian entertainers.
Born as Ernest Swindells in 1932 to an aircraft factory worker and his wife Lucy, (he even named the popular Number 96 character of Lucy Sutcliffe, played by Elisabeth Kirkby, after his mother)[2] he grew up in Manchester during the years of World War II, before taking to professional writing under the pseudonym of David Sale.
Both of these series were highly rated in their day and still rank amongst the most famous and influential programs to have appeared on Australian television.
He later tackled musical theatre for the first time with his co-written (book and lyrics) version of Sumner Locke Elliott's novel Careful, He Might Hear You.