Sam Meikle Explained

Sam Meikle
Birth Place:	Australia
Occupation:	screenwriter, director

Sam Meikle (born 1971) is an Australian writer and director best known for his work in television. He has won several Australian Writers' Guild Awards.^{[1] [2]} He is the son of actor Richard Meikle.

Filmography

Television

• Home and Away as James Fraser (1997, 1 episode)

Writer

Film

• Sunday (2000, short film)
• Variety Show at the End of the World (2000, TV special)
• Bound (2000, short film)
• The Money Shot (2001, short film) - also director
• Melancholly (2001, short film) - also director
• The Easter Tide (2003, short film)
• Fatbelly: Chopper Unchopped (2009, documentary film)

Television

• All Saints (2003, S6E2: "Heroic Measures", S6E37: "Look Before You Leap")
• All Saints (2003-08, 11 episodes)
• Home and Away (2004-19, 228 episodes)
• Out of the Blue (2009, 12 episodes)
• Neighbours (2009-19, 83 episodes)
• (2010-11, 5 episodes)
• Crownies (2011, S1E19)
• Wild Boys (2011, S1E11)
• Vic the Viking (2013-14, 4 episodes)
• Tashi (2014, 2 episodes)
• Heidi (2015, S1E5: "The Treehouse Oath")
• Vikings: Athelstan's Journal (2015, web series, 13 episodes)
• Here Come the Habibs (2015, 3 episodes including: "Party Habibs Style")
• Texas Rising: The Lost Soldier (2015, miniseries, 9 episodes)
• House Husbands (2017, 1 episode)
• The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill (2016-17)
• The Secret Daughter (2016-17, 12 episodes) - also creator
• Nate Is Late (2018-19, S1E20: "The Candy Factory", S1E27: "The Gremlins")
• Wakefield (2021, miniseries, 2 episodes)
• 100 Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone (2021, 2 episodes, S1E11: "Cherry, S1E24: "Swiss")
• MaveriX (2022-23, 10 episodes) - also creator

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2009		Television Serial	Out of the Blue (episode 4)	^[3]
2021			Wakefield
2022			MaveriX

External links

• • Sam Meikle at National Film and Sound Archive

Notes and References

1. http://www.awg.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184&Itemid=309 2009 NSW Mentorships Announced
2. Web site: Site Search Showing 5 results for "Sam Meikle" . . 9 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201009120448/https://www.awg.com.au/search?s=Sam+Meikle . 9 October 2020 . live.
3. News: AWGIE Awards: 2009 Nominations . TV Tonight . 26 June 2009 .