Anthony Scott Veitch
Anthony Scott Veitch (6 January 1914 – 23 February 1983) was an Australian writer of radio, films, novels and TV. He worked for a number of years in British film and TV. His feature credits include The Kangaroo Kid (1950) and Coast of Skeletons (1964). He wrote more than 100 novels, including westerns and historical fiction.

Biography
Veitch was bron in Scotland. He moved to Australia when he was fourteen. He did a variety of jobs, then joined the church and studied for two years before deciding to leave.

Veitch worked in publicity and broke into radio writing the radio adaptation of the film Rhodes of Africa in 1936 then he joined to company of James Raglan.

While writing he was advertising manager for 2KO, Newcastle, and servied in the army in intelligence. After the war he focused on writing.

Select credits
Rhodes of Africa (1936) - radio play
The Queen's Necklace (1938) - radio
historical pageant on Methodism (1945)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1941) - radio serial
Road to Tokyo (1945)
Fog Bound (1947) - stage play
Courage (1947) - radio feature
Torch of Remembrance (1947) - radio feature
Grief Goes Over (1947) - radio play
Shadow radio
The Strange Destiny of Lady Stanhope - radio serial
Transatlantic Liner - radio serial 
Shenandoah (1947)
Mantle of Greatness (1948) - radio series
The Tender Heart (1948–52) - radio serial
The Second Mrs Manning (1949) - radio serial
Fly Away Peter (1949) - radio play
The Saxby Millions (1949) - radio serial
Short Story (1950) - radio play
The Kangaroo Kid (1950) - feature film
The Remarkable Mr Robinson (1950) radio play
Vengeance is Mine (1951) - radio serial
Dangerous Lady (1951) - radio serial
Harp in the South (1951) - radio serial
Hart of the Territory (1951) - radio serial
Apple Trees (1952) - radio serial
Opal of Destiny (1952) - radio serial
Shirley Butler (1953) - radio feature
The Battling Bensons - radio serial
Parrish without Gates (1955) - radio feature
No Hiding Place (1963) - TV episode
Crane (1964) - TV episode
Coast of Skeletons - film
This Man Craig - TV episode
Overland Patrol (1966–67) - radio adventure series
Champion House (1967) - TV episode
Six Steps in the Dark (1967) - radio play
The Young Pioneers (1967) radio serial about Auystralia in the 1830s
The Bloody Judge (1970) - film
Mister Pybus (1970) - radio series
The View from Mount Stromlo (1973) - radio play
The Darling Darcy (1973) - radio play
Ricochet (1974) - radio thriller series
Northward the Coast (1978) - radio play
Blindworm (1978) radio serial
The Seafarer (1979) - radio serial about Mary Bryant
A Crying in the Night (1979) - radio play based on the life of Frederick Bailey Deeming - won Awgie
Spindrift: The Mary Bryant Story (1980) - book
Run from the Morning (1980) - book
Roses and Boronia (1980) - radio serial
Roses and Boronia (1981) - novel
Cat in a Pepper Tree (1982) radio serial
The Currency Lass

References

External links

Anthony Scott Veitch at AustLit
Anthony Scott Veich at Ausstage

Australian writers
1983 deaths
1914 births
Australian expatriates in England