Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce ( born April 29, 1950 in Griffith, New South Wales) is an Australian film director.
Life and work
Noyce moved at the age of 12 years to Sydney. He turned the first short films the age of 18, he studied from 1973 at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. For one of his first short films, documentary Castor and Pollux, he received as a young graduate of the film school already the award for "Best Australian Short Film of the Year". His first full-length feature film Backroads he staged in 1977, followed by the movie news war (1978), for which he won numerous Australian film awards. Films such as In the Heat of Wrath (1981 ) with Judy Davis, the shadow of a Peacock (1987 ) and especially Dead Calm (1989 ) starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane in the lead roles could be quickly known internationally him, so that he early went to Hollywood in the 1990s.
With The Patriot (1992 ), he established himself in the United States as a star director, so that henceforth he allowed to produce blockbuster with well-known Hollywood actors. With Sharon Stone Sliver he turned, with Harrison Ford, the cartel, with Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue The Saint - The Saint, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie The Bone Collector. He then returned to his home and turned 2002 Long Walk Home. In the same year followed up with Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser The Quiet American.
In the 2000s, Noyce was again increasingly active for television. So he directed two episodes of the 2011 series Revenge and directed two television films.
In the movies Sliver and The Bone Collector, Noyce can be seen in cameo roles.
In 2002 he was the National Film Board with the award for "Best Director of the Year 2002 " award.