Eleanor Katrine Witcombe AM (20 September 1923 – 21 October 2018) was an Australian screenwriter and playwright who worked extensively in radio, film and television.
[1][2] Witcombe was born in Yorketown, South Australia to Bertha Eriksen, who was of Danish and Prussian descent, and Noel Whitcombe.
She worked as a governess at a New South Wales property during World War II, but was unhappy in the role and dreamt of becoming a writer.
and the novel Pastures of the Blue Crane for ABC television, and was on the writing team for the sketch comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show on the Seven Network.
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Witcombe was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the arts as a writer for radio, film, television and theatre.