title: Ken Quinnell
text: # Ken Quinnell
  
  Ken Quinnell (born 1939) is an Australia screenwriter and film director.
  
  ## Journalism
  
  Quinell has a background in publishing and freelancejournalism, including working for Screen International and Rolling Stone. In the 1960s he was a member of the WEA Film Study Group, where he met writers Michael Thornhill and Frank Moorhouse.
  
  From 1966 to 1968 Quinnell and Michael Thornhill published SCJ: The Sydney Cinema Journal.
  
  ## Film and television
  
  Thornhill and Quinnell have worked in the Australian film industry.
  
  Quinnell wrote the screenplays for Cathy's Child (1979) (with Dick Wordley) adapted from Wordley's novel Hoodwink (1981); and The City's Edge (1983), originally titled The Running Man. The City's Edge, which was made for television, was co-written by Robert J. Merritt and W.A. Harbison, adapted from W.A. Harbison's novel. Short Changed (1985) was also co-written by Merritt.
  
  ## Awards
  
  In 1981 Quinnell was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted, for Hoodwink.
  
  