Simon Wincer (born 1943) is an Australian film and television director best known for the miniseries ''
Lonesome Dove'' and the film ''
Free Willy
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''.
He attended
Cranbrook School, Sydney, from 1950 to 1961. On leaving school he worked as a stagehand at TV Station Channel 7. By the 1980s he had directed over 200 hours of television. In 1986, he directed the
telemovie ''
The Last Frontier'' and also won a
Christopher Award
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.
Filmography
Film
Television
TV films
* ''
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker'' (1976)
* ''Bluegrass'' (1988)
* ''
Flash'' (1997)
* ''
Escape: Human Cargo'' (1998)
* ''
The Echo of Thunder'' (1998)
* ''
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery'' (1998)
* ''P.T. Barnum'' (1999)
* ''
Crossfire Trail'' (2001)
* ''
Monte Walsh'' (2003)
Miniseries
* ''
Against the Wind'' (1978) (co-directed with
George T. Miller)
* ''
The Last Frontier'' (1986)
* ''
Lonesome Dove'' (1989)
* ''
Into the West'' (2005)
* ''
Comanche Moon'' (2008)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1943 births
Living people
Australian film directors
Australian film producers
Australian film studio executives
Australian television directors
English-language film directors
Film directors from Sydney
Primetime Emmy Award winners
People educated at Cranbrook School, Sydney
Western (genre) film directors