Kenneth George Shadie OAM (8 December 1935 – 29 June 2020) was an Australian screenwriter, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John Cornell.
He was the son of Albert Nicholas Shadie, who was of Lebanese Christian descent, and Edith (née Rayner) from Manchester, England.
[1] He started in the sound department of ATN7's studio, working on Pardon Miss Westcott (1959), which was Australia's first original TV musical film.
[3] Shadie served as a producer and writer for the 1972 rustic comedy Snake Gully with Dad and Dave, which reunited him with a number of Bramston colleagues.
[10] Shadie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2015, for service to the film and television industries as a writer, and to veterans (for his community work as president of the Brooklyn sub-branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia).