Keith Hetherington

Keith Hetherington 1929 June 30 2021 was an Australian actor writer and novelist who worked as television scriptwriter on such Australian TV shows as Homicide Matlock Police Division 4 Solo One The Box The Spoiler and Chopper Squad Hetherington began writing particularly westerns for Cleveland to pen about 1000 novels under the names Kirk Hamilton and Brett Waring Hetherington became a journalist for the Queensland Health Education Council writing weekly articles for newspapers and radio plays dramatising on health subjects A former colleague invited Hetherington to work for Crawford Productions around 1970 After initially writing television scripts in his home town of Brisbane he moved to Victoria in 1971 as freelancer on shows When Australian television production declined in 1975 Hetherington returned writing Cleveland westerns with some television work He also wrote a book on metal detecting some film tiein novels and thrillers A Dragon out of the South and The Judas Coast