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Osmar E. White Osmar E. White i(A20274 works by) (birth name: Osmar Egmont Dorkin White) (a.k.a. Osmar White)
Also writes as: Robert Dentry ; E. M. Dorkin ; Maros Gray
Born: Established: 2 Apr 1909 Feilding, Manawatu, North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
; Died: Ceased: 1991
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1914
Heritage: New Zealander
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1 One Eye Cocked Osmar E. White , 2011 extract autobiography war literature (Green Armour)
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing 2011; (p. 282-294)
4 5 y separately published work icon Conquerors' Road Osmar E. White , Sally White (editor), Neil McDonald (editor), Pymble : Harper Perennial , 1996 Z1035190 1996 single work autobiography war literature First published posthumously, Conquerors' Road is based on diary notes and articles written by White as a war correspondent attached to the US Third Army.
1 y separately published work icon McGurk and the Lost Atoll Osmar E. White , Ringwood : Puffin , 1983 Z848826 1983 single work children's fiction children's Explorer McGurk and his camel Cathie Khan set out on adventure across the Pacific. After terrible hardships they are cast away on an atoll and into a village of savage head hunters.
1 1 y separately published work icon The Further Adventures of Dr A. A. A. McGurk M.D. Osmar E. White , Ringwood : Puffin , 1981 Z667834 1981 selected work children's fiction children's adventure The Further Adventures of Dr A. A. A. McGurk M.D. is an adventure about an eccentric Scottish doctor's attempts to find the Pole of Impossibility. During his explorations he meets a Yeti, and some improbable companions, holidaying away from the hundreds of climbers tramping over Mount Everest!
3 3 y separately published work icon Silent Reach Osmar E. White , London : Macmillan , 1978 Z421950 1978 single work novel crime adventure Hamilton Wrightson, millionaire mine-owner and pastoralist, controls twenty-three million acres of North West Western Australia but saboteurs are destroying his holdings. Wrightson hires George Galbraith, ex-diplomatic intelligence man and expert on subversion and terrorism. Galgraith and Wrightson's assistant - 'one of the most strikingly beautiful women he has ever seen - and the most unobtainable' - find the answers.
Source: p.[1] (McMillan, 1978)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Super-Roo of Mungalongaloo Osmar E. White , Melbourne : Wren , 1973 Z846790 1973 single work children's fiction children's Super-Roo is the Head Animal at the wonderful Willawallawalla Waterfall at the foot of the Mungalongaloo Mountains. One of his jobs is to keep out human polluters and foreign animals.
1 y separately published work icon Encounter at Kharmel : A Novel Robert Dentry , Mount Eliza : Wren , 1971 Z805672 1971 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Time Now, Time Before Osmar E. White , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1967 Z1131142 1967 single work autobiography travel
1 1 form y separately published work icon Manhaul Osmar E. White , ( dir. Rod Kinnear ) Melbourne : Channel 7 , 1962 9292892 1962 single work film/TV

'Set in an Australian outpost in the Antarctic, the play opens when the seven members of the expedition, who have served 12 months at the base, learn that they are to be marooned for another 12 months because the relief ship is unable to get through. Tension mounts and one of the men is murdered.'

Source: [Television guide], The Age, 6 September 1962, p.7.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Consider Your Verdict Douglas Tainsh , Enid Johns , Sonia Borg , Phil Freedman , John Ormiston Reid , Terry Stapleton , Rosalie Stephenson , Osmar E. White , Edward Wright , Graeme Richard Wicks , Mary Underhill , ( dir. John Dixon ) Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1961 Z1813000 1961 series - publisher film/TV crime

Consider Your Verdict was a television adaptation of Crawford Productions' radio programme of the same name, which (according to Storey at Classic Australian Television) ran from 18 August 1958 to 1960, for a total of 312 episodes. Soon after the radio program ceased, Crawfords began developing Consider Your Verdict as a television program.

As they had with the radio version, Crawfords made a number of production decisions aimed at increasing the apparent authenticity of the program. According to Storey, these included consulting legal professionals (including the Crown Law Department, Victoria Police, and Melbourne University's Department of Law), limiting the actors playing witnesses to a brief overview of the script and requiring them to ad-lib their lines (resulting in an authentically hesitant delivery style), and occasionally casting actual legal professionals in roles (notably homicide detective Gordon Timmins and Eugene Gorman QC). The intention was to suggest that audiences were watching a broadcast of an actual trial; in keeping with this illusion, as Moran notes in his Guide to Australian TV Series, the program carried no production credits.

The majority of the cases were criminal cases (primarily murder), though the program did present some civil cases. Inexpensive to produce, the program occasionally suffered from the suggestion that it adhered rather too closely to legal process, rendering episodes slower and less dramatic than they might otherwise have been.

1 John Hetherington : The Man is Reflected in the Books He Writes Osmar E. White , 1961 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 13 May 1961; (p. 16)
1 The Prisoners Osmar E. White , 1949 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 June vol. 84 no. 999 1949; (p. 489-492)
3 3 y separately published work icon Green Armour Osmar E. White , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1945 Z1131073 1945 single work autobiography war literature A story of soldiers in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands between February 1942 and July 1943.
1 Yalleroun and the Yogi E. M. Dorkin , 1944 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 May vol. 79 no. 938 1944; (p. 287-288)
1 Leander Jones and the Stroke of Fortune E. M. Dorkin , 1941 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 77 no. 906 1941; (p. 845-849)
1 Five Bright Shillings E. M. Dorkin , 1941 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 April vol. 77 no. 901 1941; (p. 332-333, 341-342)
1 In Our Profession Osmar E. White , 1941 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 October vol. 77 no. 907 1941; (p. 949-951, 966)
1 Prisoner of War Osmar E. White , 1941 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 August vol. 77 no. 905 1941; (p. 753-757)
1 The Wind and the Sand Osmar E. White , 1941 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 May vol. 77 no. 902 1941; (p. 424-427, 434)
1 Miss Fannery and the Brute Osmar E. White , 1941 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 April vol. 77 no. 901 1941; (p. 323)
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