Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014)[1] was an Australian film and television screenwriter and actor.
A member of the Australian Writer Guild for over 30 years,[2] Truman's television credits include Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, The Strip, Sea Patrol, Last Man Standing, The Alice, Stingers (nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 118), McLeod's Daughters, Neighbours (for which he wrote 148 episodes, and was also nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 4155), Home and Away, E Street, A Country Practice, Fat Tony & Co., Winter, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries.
In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for Underbelly: Badness.
He also had a small role in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.
[3] Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57.