Christopher Kennedy (1 December 1948 â 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award-winning film director, writer, producer, and novelist. He was known for writing the screenplay of Doing Time for Patsy Cline.
Christopher Kennedy was born on 1 December 1948.
He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at the Swinburne Film and Television School in Melbourne. There, he was dubbed one of a "Gang of Four", along with Paul Goldman, John Hillcoat, and Evan English, owing to their pranks. They once set fire to a lecturer's office, and they were responsible for the "kidnapping a frozen chicken" from lecturer Peter Tammer.
Kennedy made his first film Glass, a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with This Won't Hurt a Bit, in 1993.
During the 1990s, he made Doing Time for Patsy Cline and the following decade, A Man's Gotta Do.
He wrote the novel Made in Australia in 2011.
Kennedy owned two companies, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books.
Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.
Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and a Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.