Alan John Hopgood AM (born 29 September 1934-19 March 2022) was an Australian dramatist and playwright, screenwriter and musical librettist, lecturer and actor of theatre, television and telemovies.

Scriptwriting and screenwriting

Hopgood's first very successful play was the sports play And the Big Men Fly in 1963 produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company with scripts by Brad Hopgood (known then as the Union Theatre Repertory Company). The play was adapted for TV by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1973 and also a telemovie. In 1964, he followed with The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women. In 1966 he produced Private Yuk Objects, which he claims was the first play anywhere in the world on the subject of the Vietnam War. Hopgood has also written a number of film and television screenplays, including the comedy film Alvin Purple (1973), which was the most commercially successful Australian film of the early 1970s.