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Bernard Norman Gannon AO (23 September 1952 – 4 January 2007), known as Ben Gannon, was an Australian film, television and stage producer .
Jan 5, 2007 · THERE was never any certainty of the success of a musical about a gay singer who had recently died of AIDS but the producer Ben Gannon saw a story with heart and soul.
Ben Gannon, the Australian producer who was instrumental in bringing the Hugh Jackman hit The Boy From Oz to Broadway, died Jan. 4 in Sydney after a battle with cancer. He was 54.
Jan 5, 2007 · Australian entertainment and entertainers lost a unique champion with the death from cancer (January 2007) at just 54 of Ben Gannon. Ben Gannon was a producer of theatre, film and television who was both visionary and commercially successful - a spectacular combination.
Ben Gannon was born on 23 September 1952 in Maffra, Victoria, Australia. He was a producer and writer, known for Gallipoli (1981), Heartbreak High (2022) and The Heartbreak Kid (1993). He died on 4 January 2007 in Tamarama, New South Wales, Australia.
- Producer, Writer
- September 23, 1952
- Ben Gannon
- January 4, 2007
Jan 10, 2007 · Ben Gannon, who died last week aged 54 from cancer and whose funeral service was held yesterday, was born Bernard Norman Gannon in Maffra in Victoria's Gippsland. His father was a land surveyor and farmer. Leaving the Jesuit Xavier College in Melbourne, Gannon undertook NIDA's two-year production course in Sydney.
Jenkins and producer Ben Gannon developed Heartbreak High as a spin-off of the film, with several cast members reprising their roles, reimagined in a Sydney setting. The first series, which was initially centred around the Poulos family, consisted of 38 episodes and premiered on Network Ten on 27 February 1994.
