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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).
- January 1, 1
- Simon Wincer
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography. 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.
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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.
An esteemed director/producer in film and television in his native Australia, Simon Wincer has earned his highest accolades in the U.S. for directing the acclaimed television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989); he also had great success directing Free Willy (1993). Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Wincer helmed scores of series' episodes Down ...
Born: January 01, 1943. SIMON WINCER Date of Birth: 1943 Born in Sydney, Australia, Wincer began his career in television. While working part-time at a Sydney theater, he found he loved working...
Wincer's most popular US-made film marked another return for him, as the likable if derivative "boy and his whale" tale "Free Willy" (1993) recalled the tone and mass appeal of "Phar Lap." He later brought his craftsmanlike assurance to his most lavish film yet, "The Phantom" (1996), joining the list of US films based on comic strips.
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