Rex Rienits (17 April 1909 – 1971) was an Australian writer of radio, films, plays and TV.
"[10] Rienits moved to England in early 1949, hoping to work for Ealing, but he only ever did one project for them, the film Out of the Clouds.
His big breakthrough was a popular radio adaptation of Robbery Under Arms which he sold to the BBC in late 1949.
Assassin for Hire was sold to the movies and the success of this led to offers to do three more scripts for Anglo-Amalgamated Productions starting with Wide Boy.
[14] His radio version of Wide Boy proved controversial when the BBC cancelled it at the last minute.
[17] He married again and returned to London where he worked writing The Flying Doctors for TV and radio.
[18][19] He wrote the first Australian historical TV series, Stormy Petrel, based on a radio serial of Rienits.
[20] He was replaced as ABC drama editor by Philip Grenville Mann, who wrote the historical mini series The Patriots.
Rienits based himself in London for the rest of his career, writing regularly for BBC radio.
[24] In 1955 he married a third time, to a former occupational therapist, Thea, who regularly collaborated on his projects as a researcher and co author.