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Donald "Don" Battye (born 29 September 1938) is an Australian composer and television producer. ==Life== He was a writer, script editor, and producer on several Australian television series for Crawford Productions including soap opera ''The Box'' in 1976 & 1977, The Sullivans and police procedural drama series Division 4, ''Bluey'' (1976) and ''Homicide''. Peter Pinne and he wrote children's musicals which premiered at the Alexander Theatre Monash University, from 1973 to 1980. as well as the adult musicals All Saints' Day, Don't Tell Helena, A Bunch Of Ratbags, It Happened In Tanjablanca, Red White * Boogie, Sweet Fanny Adams, Caroline, The Computer & Love Travelling Salesman (2 folk operas) and Prisoner Cell Block H, the Musical. He later worked for Reg Grundy Productions, (later changed to the Grundy Organization) as Senior Vice President Drama Development which in that capacity made him producer and executive producer on such programmes as the action series Chopper Squad, which first took him to join the company, police procedural drama series ''Bellamy'' (1981) and soap operas, The Restless Years (1981), for which he also wrote over 100 episodes, ''Sons and Daughters'' for which he also wrote over 150 episodes,(1982), ''Waterloo Station'' (1983), ''Possession'' (1985) and ''Neighbours''(also 1985). Battye was Executive Producer of Neighbours from 1988–1992. and wrote for the program until the year 2000. . Battye co-composed the famous theme song to ''Sons and Daughters'' with Peter Pinne, plus two songs for inclusion in 'Neighbours'. He now produces and composes music from the Philippines where he now resides. He has written a memoir which encompasses his life from being a childhood actor to a senior television executive. He and Brian Kavanagh wrote the screenplay ''City's Child''.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Battye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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