Oscar Ralph Whitbread (26 November 1929 – 16 May 2016) was an English-Australian pioneering producer and director who worked extensively in television and film.[1][2]
Whitbread who was born in the United Kingdom, moved to Australia in the late 1940s. and started his career with the inception of television in that country in 1956, firstly at the ABC, where he served as the Head of Drama, before switching to the same position with the Seven Network.
He was responsible for numerous successful series including Bellbird, The Flying Doctors and the miniseries Power Without Glory. Whitbread was the senior executive producer at Crawford Productions and also worked in England for the BBC, Thames Television, Granada Television, and London Weekend Television. During the 1970s, he worked as a theatre media studies lecturer, at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales.
Whitbread was married to Corinne Kerby.[3] He died on 16 May 2016 after a long illness.[2]
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