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Bruce Beresford
Highest Rated: 100% Breaker Morant (1980)
Lowest Rated: 0% The Contract (2006)
Birthday: Aug 16, 1940
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Perhaps the least lionized of the Australian New Wave filmmakers, Bruce Beresford has developed a reputation for drawing extraordinary performances from his actors, as well as enjoying great success making stage plays work on film. Much-acclaimed for historical dramas of social and moral conflict, he surprisingly first made his name with low comedy, delighting in juvenile scatology that horrified critics while regaling the Australian public. Though he had always wanted to make films, he had to leave his native country to do so, and when England proved inimical, he applied for and got a job as a film editor (and sometime cameraman) in Nigeria, remaining there until the Nigerian civil war broke out in 1967. Returning to England, he secured a position as a films officer for the Production Board of the British Film Institute, but on a visit to Australia in 1971, he found its film community in a state of high excitement over the formation of the Australian Film Commission. Within a matter of weeks he was back in Sydney, ready for action.
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Bruce Beresford
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Horton Foote: The Road to Home | Self | - | 2020 |
88% |
|
Ladies in Black |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2018 |
57% |
|
Flint | Director | - | 2017 |
92% |
|
Barracuda | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
100% |
|
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible | Self | - | 2017 |
24% |
|
Mr. Church | Director | $685.2K | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surprise | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonnie & Clyde | Director | - | 2013 |
30% |
|
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding | Director | $539.9K | 2011 |
56% |
|
Mao's Last Dancer | Director | $4.8M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Into the Shadows | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
0% |
|
The Contract | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
|
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | Director | - | 2003 |
64% |
|
Evelyn | Director | $1.4M | 2002 |
11% |
|
Bride of the Wind | Director | $419.4K | 2001 |
28% |
|
Double Jeopardy | Director | $116.7M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sydney: A Story of a City |
Director, Producer |
- | 1999 |
43% |
|
Paradise Road |
Director, Writer |
$1.9M | 1997 |
30% |
|
Last Dance | Director | $5.9M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
|
Curse of the Starving Class | Executive Producer | - | 1995 |
26% |
|
Silent Fall | Director | $2.7M | 1994 |
10% |
|
A Good Man in Africa | Director | $2.2M | 1994 |
69% |
|
Rich in Love | Director | $2.0M | 1992 |
92% |
|
Black Robe | Director | $8.2M | 1991 |
78% |
|
Mister Johnson | Director | $11.1K | 1990 |
85% |
|
Driving Miss Daisy | Director | $105.6M | 1989 |
17% |
|
Her Alibi | Director | $17.2M | 1989 |
57% |
|
Aria | Director | - | 1987 |
82% |
|
Crimes of the Heart | Director | $19.3M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Fringe Dwellers | Director | $15.9K | 1986 |
8% |
|
King David | Director | - | 1985 |
82% |
|
Tender Mercies | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
|
Puberty Blues | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Club | Director | - | 1980 |
100% |
|
Breaker Morant | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
|
Money Movers |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1979 |
80% |
|
The Getting of Wisdom | Director | - | 1977 |
83% |
|
Don's Party | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
|
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie | Director | - | 1972 |