Bruce Beresford

Infobox actor


name = Bruce Beresford
birthdate = 16 August 1940
birthplace = Paddington, Sydney AUS
deathdate =
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occupation = Film director
yearsactive = 1972 - present
imdb_id = 0000915

Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian film director, writer, and producer. Born in Sydney to Leslie and Lona Beresford, he grew up in the (then) outer western suburb of Toongabbie. He attended The King's School, Sydney. In a 2007 interview on Radio National in Australia (on [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/2043322.htm Late Night Live] ), he said that he moved to England at the end of 1962 but could not get a job in the unionized film industry there, so he answered an advertisement for a film editing job in Nigeria, where he worked for two years. He now works both in Australia and the United States. He was previously wed to Rhoisin Patricia Harrison and married Virginia Duigan in 1985. Their daughter Trilby Beresford acts, whilst his daughter with his first wife Cordelia Beresford is a cinematographer.

In August 2007 he published a memoir, "Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants To do This... True Stories From A Life In The Screen Trade" (ISBN 9-7807=3228439-8) [http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0732284392]

Contemporaries / friends

* Attended University of Sydney with Clive James, Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer, Bob Ellis, Ken Horler, and Mungo McCallum (writer).
* Contemporary and friend of John Bell, with whom he shared a house and he also did some film acting.
* Close friends with Australian comedian, satirist and character actor Barry Humphries and his family, best known for his on-stage/television alter ego Dame Edna Everage.

Filmography

* "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" (1972)
* "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
* "Side by Side (1975)
* "Don's Party" (1976)
* "The Getting of Wisdom" (1978)
* "Money Movers" (1978)
* "Breaker Morant" (1980)
* "The Club" (1980) (Writer: David Williamson) (a. k. a. "David Williamson's The Club" and "Players")
* "Puberty Blues" (1981] )
* "Tender Mercies" (1983)
* "King David" (1985)
* "The Fringe Dwellers" (1986)
* "Crimes of the Heart" (1986)
* "Aria" (1988)
* "Her Alibi" (1989)
* "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989)
* "Mister Johnson" (1990)
* "Black Robe" (1991)
* "Rich in Love" (1993)
* "A Good Man in Africa" (1994)
* "Silent Fall" (1994)
* "Last Dance" (1996)
* "Paradise Road" (1997)
* "" (1999)
* "Double Jeopardy" (1999) (a. k. a. "Doppelmord" and "Double condamnation")
* "Bride of the Wind" (2001) (a. k. a. "Windsbraut, Die")
* "Evelyn" (2002)
* "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself" (2003) (TV)
* "The Contract" (2006)
* "A Dream of Red Mansions" (2007) ("in production")
* "Rhapsody" (2008)
* "A Woman of No Importance" (2008) ("pre-production")
* "Long Tan" (2008)

External links

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* [http://www.bruceberesford.org Official Website]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s2046144.htm ABC interview transcript (Talking Heads, 2007)]
* [http://www.raumzeitfilter.de/beresford_e.htm Bruce Beresford] - portrait photo by Mark-Steffen Göwecke
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A359085%20|%20Number%3A355245%20|%20Number%3A353523%20|%20Number%3A354271%20|%20Number%3A356560%20|%20Number%3A355807%20|%20Number%3A563265%20|%20Number%3A560167%20|%20Number%3A353650%20|%20Number%3A349255;querytype=;resCount=10 Bruce Beresford at the National Film and Sound Archive]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zWVze4oac] - Youtube interview

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NAME= Beresford, Bruce
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Film director
DATE OF BIRTH= 16 August 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH= Paddington AUS
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