Writing

Stephen MacLean

Place of birth

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Stephen McLean is an Australian screenwriter, director, and producer.

Known for

Homicide poster
5.8

Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

Homicide

1964

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz poster
NR

The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz

1995

The Singer and the Swinger poster
NR

The Singer and the Swinger tells us as much about Australia's relationship to American pop culture as it does about Johnny O'Keefe's to Lee Gordon. Two different men brought together during the years 1953-63.

The Singer and the Swinger

1998

Starstruck poster
5.4

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

Starstruck

1982

Around the World in Eighty Ways poster
3.7

Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...

Around the World in Eighty Ways

1988

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea poster
5.9

This is an Australian made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia. The film is an adaptation on Jules Verne's classic French novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1985

Series credits

Behind the camera

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz poster
NR

The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz

1995

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz poster
NR

The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz

1995

The Singer and the Swinger poster
NR

The Singer and the Swinger tells us as much about Australia's relationship to American pop culture as it does about Johnny O'Keefe's to Lee Gordon. Two different men brought together during the years 1953-63.

The Singer and the Swinger

1998

The Singer and the Swinger poster
NR

The Singer and the Swinger tells us as much about Australia's relationship to American pop culture as it does about Johnny O'Keefe's to Lee Gordon. Two different men brought together during the years 1953-63.

The Singer and the Swinger

1998

Starstruck poster
5.4

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

Starstruck

1982

Around the World in Eighty Ways poster
3.7

Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...

Around the World in Eighty Ways

1988

Around the World in Eighty Ways poster
3.7

Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...

Around the World in Eighty Ways

1988

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea poster
5.9

This is an Australian made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia. The film is an adaptation on Jules Verne's classic French novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1985

The Tasty Bust Reunion poster
3.8

Cops raided the Tasty nightclub in Melbourne in 1994, strip-searching 463 patrons. A decade later many of the patrons recall the incident for the cameras and provide colorful details amid the films re-creations.

The Tasty Bust Reunion

2004