Colin Free

Colin Free (1 September 1925–26 May 1996) was an award-winning Australian writer best known for his work on television. Colin Free was born on 1 September 1925 in Sydney, Australia and died on 26 May 1996 in Goulburn, Australia.

At the start of his career, Free wrote for the theatre, notably Hamlet in Shadow, which was performed in Sydney in 1954 with a cast featuring Moya O'Sullivan.

By the mid-1960s, he concentrated on writing teleplays for the BBC and the ABC, as well as for radio. He was most frequently associated with ABC-TV where he developed the original treatment for the popular soap opera Bellbird, created the adventure series Delta, and served as script editor on the historical miniseries Rush and Ben Hall.