Ralph Wilton Peterson (21 February 1921 – 2 November 1996) was an Australian writer (dramatist and playwright), actor and producer of film, theatre, radio and TV.
He went to London and achieved fame with the success of his play The Square Ring, which was turned into a film of the same name in 1953.
[1] He married the Australian actress Betty Lucas in 1946;[2] their son, Joel Patterson (1957–2017), became a cinematographer.
After the war, Peterson began writing regularly for Sydney radio including comedy material for Roy Rene, Jack Davey and Dick Bentley.
A radio feature about an Aboriginal child, The Problem of Johnny Flourcake (1950) was narrated by Anthony Quayle who recommended Peterson to the BBC.