---
name: "Ken Shadie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ken-shadie"
fi1m_id: "ken-shadie"
imdb_id: "nm0787185"
tmdb_id: 58454
wikidata_id: "Q3195086"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "8 December 1935"
died: "29 June 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T19:30:35.623563+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ken Shadie

## Identity

Ken Shadie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ken-shadie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ken-shadie
- **IMDb ID:** nm0787185
- **TMDB ID:** 58454
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3195086
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shadie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195086, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58454

Writer. Born 8 December 1935 in Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died 29 June 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 8 December 1935, Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Died:** 29 June 2020
- **Also known as:** Kenneth George Shadie
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shadie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195086, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58454

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Crocodile Dundee*](https://film.one/film/crocodile-dundee.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ken Shadie (also credited as Kenneth George Shadie) was an Australian screenwriter. He was born on 8 December 1935 in Bondi, Sydney, and died on 29 June 2020 in Sydney.

Shadie began his career in Australian television, serving as chief writer and script editor on *The Mavis Bramston Show* from 1964 to 1968 and contributing to series including *Number 96* and *The Paul Hogan Show*. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1986 film *Crocodile Dundee* with Paul Hogan and John Cornell; the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2015 for services to film and television.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, smh.com.au, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crocodile Dundee* (1986), Fi1m 72, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/crocodile-dundee.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Crocodile Dundee* (1986), Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/crocodile-dundee.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1987: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Crocodile Dundee*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Medal of the Order of Australia 2015: Medal of the Order of Australia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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