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- Simon Wincer (born 1943) is an Australian film and television director. 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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Simon Wincer (born 1943) is an Australian film and television director. 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.
Simon Wincer. Director: The Phantom. Simon Wincer was born in 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and assistant director, known for The Phantom (1996), Harlequin (1980) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001).
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Simon Wincer (born 1943 in Sydney) is an Australian film director and film producer. He attended Cranbrook School, Bellevue Hill, Sydney from 1950 to 1961. On leaving school he worked as a stage hand at TV Station Channel 7. By the 1980s he directed over 200 hours of television.
Born in Australia in 1943, Simon Wincer developed an interest in television production when he accompanied his father to a local television station on a delivery. Being drawn to the work, he was helped obtain a job by his cousin, Eric Pearce, a television host in Melbourne, at the Australian Broadcast Corporation.
Harlequin (known as Dark Forces in the United States) is a 1980 Australian thriller film directed by Simon Wincer and starring Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings and Broderick Crawford. The film is a modern-day retelling of the historical figure Rasputin .
Simon Wincer is an Australian film and television director. He directed the following episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "German East Africa, December 1916" (1992) "Congo, January 1917" (1992) "Somme, Early August 1916" (1992) "Germany, Mid-August 1916" (1992) "Petrograd, July 1917...
Biography. Logging in over 200 hours as a director on Australian TV during the 1970s on series including "Against the Wind" and "The Sullivans," Wincer made his feature directorial debut with the thriller "Snap Shot" (1979). He followed up with the genuinely offbeat tale of a Rasputin-like power, "Harlequin" (1980).
