RobertLord
- Writer
Robert Lord was writing full-time at a point when very few Kiwi playwrights made a living from their work. In 1988 he turned his play Bert and Maisy into a television series. He also had scriptwriting credits on 60s set TV show Peppermint Twist and big screen period drama Pictures. Lord's classic play Joyful and Triumphant was dramatised for television in 1993, soon after his death at age 46.
Biography
Playwright Roger Hall has written of Robert Lord that he "loved to write. Always there were scripts on the go: for television, for theatre, for radio, for films". After Lord's death in 1992, Hall wrote in North and South that Lord's career had combined great success — including several plays produced overseas — with near-misses and "never enough luck". The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature called Lord "New Zealand's first professional playwright".
Screenography
Awards
1981 Moscow International Film Festival
Press Award for Humanism: Pictures
Nominated for Golden Prize (top award): Pictures
“The worst sitcom from America we see here is one of 20 that have got onto the American screens in any given season out of about 1000 that began in the typewriters, 500 that were selected for development, 100 that eventually had pilots made and 50 that were commissioned.”