Peter
Fenton. Born Boggabri NSW. Educated Fairfield Primary and
Parramatta High School.
Working
career. Chief sound mixer 150 Australian feature films.
Credits
includes Newsfront, Caddie, Sunday Too Far Away, Picnic
At Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, The Devil’s Playground,
Gallipoli, Phar Lap, The Russia House, Six Degrees Of Separation
and Paradise Road.
Wrote/
co-produced two documentary films on Wallaby tours. The
Running Game featured the long tour of British Isles and
Ireland in 1981. The African Campaign featured the four
match tour of South Africa in 1992.
Wrote
and presented one hour documentary on boxer Les Darcy for
ABC, 1998
Has
written 7 books on Australian sport.
The
Legend Of The fighting Man, published 1994, is a biography
on Australia’s most famous boxer Les Darcy who died in Memphis
Tennessee aged 21 in 1917.
For
The sake Of The Game (1996) tells the story of the 1927/28
Waratahs rugby tour of the British Isles, Ireland and France
which set the tradition of Australia’s open style of rugby
and virtually saved the game in Australia.
Riding
On Courage (2000) is a biography on Jockey Wayne Harris,
a Melbourne Cup and Golden slipper Stakes winner who overcame
enormous problems to achieve success.
They
Called Him Boy is the biography of Andrew “Boy” Charlton
who became Australia’s first Olympic 1500 metres champion
as a 16 year old in Paris in 1924.
Olive
is the biography of a teenage, North Queensland WW2 Nurse.
Also
three books of sporting poetry. Sport The Way I Speak It,
Syringes In The Locker and I’ll Meet You Down The Pub.
Rugby
Coaching career. 20 years first grade /representative rugby
Parramatta
1st XV, 1977-81. Coached them to first 1st
grade premiership 1977.
Sydney
Representative Team 1982-85. Teams included the Ella Brothers,
Michael Hawker, Simon Poidevin and Nick Farr Jones.
Eastwood
1st XV or club coach 1986-1991
Penrith
1st XV 1997 or club coach 1997-2001
Awarded
Australian Sports Medal 2000 for service to Rugby in Sydney’s
west.
Currently
writing for Inside Rugby magazine and Super 12 and test
match programmes.
Works
as bookies’ clerk when drinking money is low.
Regular
speaker at sporting and corporate functions.
So
there you have it. Punter, poet, raconteur, aging coach
and part time drinker.
