Record ID:
35611097 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50018995
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19420224
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Lived/located in:
  • Melbourne (Vic.) Bairnsdale (Vic.)
Fields of activity:
  • Playwriting Motion picture authorship Television authorship Motion pictures--Production and direction Mechanical engineering Social psychology
Occupations:
  • Dramatists Screenwriters Television writers Motion picture producers and directors Mechanical engineers Psychologists College teachers
  • University and college faculty members Playwrights Motion picture producers
Used for:
  • Williamson, David Keith, 1942-
  • Williamson, David, 1942-
  • Williamson, David, 1942 Feb. 24-
Notes:
  • Internet movie database, Oct. 28, 2002 (David Williamson; playwright, screenwriter, film producer, etc.; b. Feb. 24, 1942, Melbourne, Vic., Australia)
  • AusLit Agent, Feb. 24, 2006 (Williamson, David; a.k.a. Williamson, David Keith; b. Feb. 24, 1942, Melbourne, Vic.)
  • Williamson, David. The coming of Stork, 1974 title page (David Williamson) page vii (David Williamson was born in Melbourne in 1942. He is a graduate in mechanical engineering from Monash University and for a time lectured at the Swinburne College of Technology in Melbourne. He wrote several university revues and a short play before The Coming of Stork (1970, his first full-length play))
  • Wikipedia, November 29, 2017 (David Keith Williamson, AO (born 24 February 1942) is one of Australia's best-known dramatists and playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. David Williamson was born in Melbourne in 1942 and was brought up in Bairnsdale. He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960, but left and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965. After a brief stint as design engineer for GM Holden, Williamson became a lecturer in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics at Swinburne University of Technology (then Swinburne Technical College) in 1966 while studying social psychology as a postgraduate part-time at the University of Melbourne. He completed a Master of Arts in Psychology in 1970, and then completed postgraduate research in social psychology. Williamson later lectured in social psychology at Swinburne, where he remained until 1972. Williamson first turned to writing and performing in plays in 1967 with La Mama Theatre Company and The Pram Factory, and rose to prominence in the early 1970s)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)64772
  • 000000614695
  • abv00504783
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC OCoLC OClW DLC ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc