John Dingwall (13 July 1940 – 3 May 2004) was an Australian writer of film and television, best known for his screenplay Sunday Too Far Away (1975).
[1] Dingwall was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, where he commenced his career as a journalist with a cadetship at the city's daily newspaper, The Morning Bulletin.
[2][3][4] He then moved to Sydney, where he worked as a police reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald before going to Crawford Productions as a television writer, working on programs such as Homicide and Division Four.
[5] He moved into features with Sunday Too Far Away, which was based on his brother-in-law's experiences as a sheep shearer.
[5] His son Kelly Dale Dingwall (born 23 December 1970) is a former actor,[6] best known for his role as Brian "Dodge" Forbes on Home and Away[7] and a rookie reporter Tony Reynolds in the 1993 mystery thriller film The Custodian.