Hotmail
Phillip Noyce
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  2 RatingsRate this person:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: April 29, 1950 in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia Biography:Australian "Phillip Noyce" was "movie crazy" from an early age, experimenting with a camera as a teen and producing an independent short, Better to Reign in Hell, before graduating from high school. He entered the University of Sydney's law school, quit to play amateur rugby, then re-enrolled in the University's fine arts department. Noyce continued turning out short documentaries on the more offbeat aspects of Australian life and also ran the University's film society before being accepted at the fledgling Australian Film and Television School in 1972. Two years later, he won the Sydney Film Festival's Rouben Mamoulien award for his documentary Castor and Pollux. With God Knows Why, But It Works, a 1975 docudrama about medical care among the Aborigines, Noyce became a professional filmmaker. His first feature, 1977's "Backroads" (which he also produced and wrote), expanded on certain race-relations... Full Biography
| |||||||||||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
