PhilWallington
- Director
- Journalist
- Executive producer
Veteran Australian-born producer Phil Wallington had 50 plus years of screen credits. A 1989 shift to New Zealand, following 23 years at Australia’s ABC news, saw him take on a run of executive producer roles on current affairs shows. He helped produce the controversial 1990 Frontline report on Labour Party campaign funding. The Top Shelf producer was also a regular media commentator. Wallington died on 11 September 2020.
Screenography
Biography
Australian-born Phil Wallington started out as a cadet journalist with ABC in Sydney in 1965, where bosses chastised him for wasting film by asking too many questions, and the cameramen included at least two future Oscar-winners (like The English Patient's John Seale). Then he headed off on his OE, working at the BBC in London as a scriptwriter and sub-editor.
Awards
1998 TV Guide Television Awards
Nominated for Best News and Current Affairs Programme: 60 Minutes
1998 Qantas Media Awards
Nominated for Best Human Relations Story - Television Current Affairs Show: 60 Minutes
“I am lucky to be still employable and still to be working in an industry which I love. I must have some good qualities — but one of them … is definitely not 'resignation'. I have never resigned willingly, from any role I have played or post I have held. It has always been either a case of being fired or else promoted … Sometimes both in pretty quick succession.”