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Television script-writer, script executive, script editor, and producer.

Anthony Ellis has worked as a script-writer since at least the mid-1980s, when he contributed scripts to the television series The Flying Doctors. He also began writing scripts for long-running soap opera Home and Away in 1988: he wrote at least thirty episodes for the series between 1988 and 2008.

His scripts in the 1990s include episodes of The Miraculous Mellops (1991), The Adventures of Skippy (1992), Ship to Shore (1994), Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1996), Water Rats (1996), Blue Heelers (1996-1997), Big Sky (1997), Mirror, Mirror II (1997-1998), and All Saints, for which he wrote at least eleven episodes (1998-2003).

He also worked as a script and story editor for television series in this period, including as script editor for Family and Friends, written by Greg Haddrick and Dave Worthington (1990), as script and story editor for Mirror, Mirror (1995), and as script editor for Mirror, Mirror II (1997).

Ellis continued to write scripts after 2000, including for Always Greener (2001-2002), McLeod's Daughters (2007), and Packed to the Rafters (2008-2011).

However, his script-writing was curtailed as he moved into a regular position as network script executive on a wide range of television programs, including Foreign Exchange (2004), The Sleepover Club (2006-2007), Mortified (2006-2007), Lockie Leonard (2007), McLeod's Daughters (2005-2006), and Packed to the Rafters (2008-2009).