Background
De Roche was born in Lincoln Maine and moved to San Diego with his family when he was six.
De Roche was born in Lincoln Maine and moved to San Diego with his family when he was six.
He was best known for his work in the thriller and horror genre, with such credits as Long Weekend, Patrick and Road Games. He wanted to be a writer and wrote a spec script for Division Four. Nine months later he received a telegram inviting him to write for the show.
From 1970-1974 he was a staff writer at Crawford Productions mainly working on police shows, then he freelanced.
In the late 70s and early 80s he established himself as the leading screenwriter of thrillers in Australia. He often worked with director Richard Franklin who said of him: Everett is a very inspirational writer
Everett gives one too much of everything and you don’t always know what to use. You start editing down and you end up with words and single lines of dialogue that were once scenes.
That is maybe how this problem, as you see it, comes about.
But that only has to do with Everett’s extraordinarily fertile imagination and his writing speed. De Roche battled cancer for the last three years of his life and died of the disease in 2014. Secrets The Feds: Seduction.