Alan Coleman

Alan Coleman (28 December 1936 – 10 December 2013) was an English Australian TV series writer, director and producer, primarily in the southern hemisphere, where he worked on soap operas The Young Doctors (which he also created), The Restless Years, Punishment, Neighbours and Shortland Street.

Earlier he was the head of children's programming at ATV in the UK until emigrating to Australia in 1974. In 1997, he directed several episodes of the British soap opera, Family Affairs as a part of a working holiday in the UK. At one point, he also temporarily parted company with the Reg Grundy production stable to establish his own company, which provided television coverage of major sporting events. Before going behind the camera, he originally worked as an actor and is on record as saying that "you cannot be a good director unless you have acted yourself".

Coleman's autobiography, One Door Shuts, was self-published through Trafford Publishing in 2009.

Personal life

Coleman was married to Barbara. He had three children; Nick, Chris (deceased) and Jacqui.

Alan Coleman (cricketer)

Alan James Coleman (born 13 December 1983) is a former English cricketer. Coleman is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born at Ashford, Middlesex.

Coleman made his debut for Middlesex in a List A match against Sussex in the 2001 Norwich Union League. He made two further appearances in that season's competition against Hampshire and Glamorgan, while in the following season's competition he appeared once against Gloucestershire. In his four List A appearances for Middlesex, he scored 29 runs with a high score of 14 not out. With the ball, he bowled a total of 16.1 wicketless overs.

Also during the 2002 season, Coleman played a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match each for Dorset against Devon and the Middlesex Cricket Board against the Northamptonshire Cricket Board.

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