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Name Phillip Noyce
Birth Year 1950
Death Year 0000
Country Australia
Comments Australian born director, Phillip Noyce, first became interested in films at a young age, when he was inspired by the relation of the audience to performer when a what he describes as "tent show" came to his home town. Growing up in Griffith in New South Wales, he would later move to Sydney with his family at the age of 12. As a teenager, he was first exposed to underground films as well as blockbuster American films. Making his first film, Better To Reign In Hell, at the age of 18 and in 1973 was offered a place at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School where he created the work "Castor and Pollux', which won the award for Best Australian Short Film in 1974.

In 1977, Noyce released his first-full length feature film, Backroads, which was the first Australian Film to feature a significant creative input from Indigenous Australians. He would later make more will known films including Patriot Games (1992), Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) and Salt (2010).



Place of Birth: Griffith, New South Wales, Austrlaia.

Occupation: Director (d), Screenwriter (sc).

Education: Australian National Film School.

Filmography:

1975 The Golden Cage (asst d).

1976 Let The Balloon Go (asst d).

1977 Backroads (p, d, sc).

1978 Newsfront (d, sc).

1983 Heatwave (d, makeup effects).

1987 Echoes Of Paradise / Shadow Of The Peacock (d).

1989 Dead Calm (d).

1990 Blind Fury (d).

1992 Patriot Games (d).

1993 Sliver (d).

1994 Clear And Present Danger (d).

1997 The Saint (d).

1998 The Repair Shop (d).

1999 The Bone Collector (d).

2002 Patriot Games: Up Close (d).

2002 Rabbit Proof Fence (d, p).

2002 Clear And Present Danger: Behind The Danger (d).

2002 The Quiet American (d).

2003 Tru Calling (d, p).

2004 Welcome to Sao Paulo (d).

2006 Catch a Fire (d).

2006 Brotherhood (TV Series) (d).

2010 Salt (d).

2011 Revenge (TV Series) (p, d).

2012 Luck (TV Series) (d).
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