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Simon Wincer
Australian film director (born 1943) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simon Wincer (born 1943) is an Australian film and television director best known for the miniseries Lonesome Dove and the film Free Willy.[1] 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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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)
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