Esben Storm


Esben Storm was a Danish Australian actor, screenwriter, television producer, television director, voice artist and songwriter.
He was well known for his work with the Australian Children's Television Foundation, headed by Patricia Edgar, where he worked for 15 years. The company sold programs to 92 countries, and Storm was involved in writing, acting, editing, and directing numerous programs, including Round the Twist. He worked to adapt John Marsden's Tomorrow series but lost the rights to the film.
His acting credits included roles in the films The Coca-Cola Kid, Wrong World and Young Einstein ; his last acting role was in the medical drama series All Saints.

Biography

Storm came to Australia with parents Laurits and Ane in 1958 after Laurits lost the family farm to lawyers. After having settled in Melbourne, his father worked as a builder's labourer and built a darkroom where Esben learned photographic processing, composition and lighting.
Storm started making films at 18 with his partner Haydn Keenan. His early work was mostly serious in nature, including a 1983 documentary about the Hilton Bombing in Sydney called With Prejudice. He wrote and directed 27A, In Search of Anna , Deadly, and Subterano ; he directed Devil's Hill and the Tasmanian film in the Touch the Sun series of bicentennial telemovies. In 2007, he directed the SBS comedy series Kick.
Storm also worked on several television series such as Round the Twist, The Genie from Down Under, Sky Trackers, Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers, directed Blue Heelers, Crash Zone, and Winners for which he directed the episode "The Other Facts of Life".

Actor

in 1976 Storm acted in Carol Jerrems' Hanging About who was then his girlfriend and living with him in Willoughby. He played Tom in "Room to Move" and Leo George in "The Other Facts of Life"), and More Winners and Phoenix. In Blue Heelers he played Colin Roper in the episode "Breaking the Cycle".

Death

Storm died, aged 60, on 28 March 2011.

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