Simon Wincer

Simon Wincer ( born 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian film director and producer.

Life and work

Simon Wincer was born in 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales and attended the Cranbrook School, Bellevue Hill, Sydney from 1950 until 1961. Upon leaving school he worked as a stagehand at the television station Channel 7 in Australia. He began his career as a director for various television series. The debut was in 1972 at the Division Series 4 Since the late 1970s he also directed for the big screen. His first two films were the horror films snapshot (1979 ) and Harlequin (1980). There followed in 1983 the horse racing movie Phar Lap - Legend of a nation with Tom Burlinson. In the 1980s, he also directed over 200 hours of material for Australian television. In the following years, films like the American science fiction film DARYL - The extraordinary, the adventure film The Lighthorsemen with the 1988 Award- AACTA Award music of composer Mario Millo, or Outback Western Quigley of Australians with Tom Selleck in the lead role.

His last work date for the cinema was built in 2011. Again, a horse racing movie. The drama The Cup with Stephen Curry and Brendan Gleeson. Its most well known film Free Willy - call of freedom from the years 1993 1989 he was awarded for his work on the miniseries The call of the eagle with the Emmy. .

Simon Wincer is also active as a television director, he led, among other things, directed the produced by Steven Spielberg mini-series Into the West - Into the West.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

As a director,

As a producer,

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