Career
As a scriptwriter, he is sometimes credited as John Hanlon. Other television credits include: Catch Kandy, Homicide, Matlock Police, Certain Women 1973-1976, The Box in 1974, Number 96 in 1977, Glenview High, The Restless Years, Neighbours, Home and Away, Blue Heelers and Heartbreak High. He has also written scripts for several television series, including Neighbours and Home and Away, sometimes under the name John Hanlon.
Porteous has performed in many stage plays, among them Hamlet, Death of a Salesman (1970), the Sydney Theatre Company"s production of King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing.
He has most recently (June 2010) completed a touring performance of Codgers, with Ron Haddrick (among others). He was a regular at the Q Theatre in Penrith, New South Wales and was also the ambassador for "The Q", which was demolished in August 2005 and moved to the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre.
Shane Porteous has also provided animation services to Hanna-Barbera, and has created layouts for the film versions of "The Magic Pudding" and "Blinky Bill". He is referenced in the popular Australian song I"m So Post Modern by The Bedroom Philosopher.
Porteous resides in the village of Medlow Bath in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
He has a wife, Jenny, and three grown children, Fiona, Polly, and Ben. He is the grandson of Gladstone Porteous, Australian missionary to China.