Bruce Beresford (born 16 August, 1940) is an Australian film director, writer, and producer of such films as Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy.
Born in Sydney to Leslie and Lona Beresford, he grew up in the (then) outer western suburb of Toongabbie. He attended The King's School, Sydney.
In a 2007 interview on Radio National in Australia (on Late Night Live), he said that he moved to England at the end of 1962 but could not ge...
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Bruce Beresford (born 16 August, 1940) is an Australian film director, writer, and producer of such films as Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy.
Born in Sydney to Leslie and Lona Beresford, he grew up in the (then) outer western suburb of Toongabbie. He attended The King's School, Sydney.
In a 2007 interview on Radio National in Australia (on Late Night Live), he said that he moved to England at the end of 1962 but could not get a job in the unionised film industry there, so he answered an advertisement for a film editing job in Nigeria, where he worked for two years. He now works both in Australia and the United States. He was previously wed to Rhoisin Patricia Harrison and married Virginia Duigan in 1985. Their daughter Trilby Beresford acts, whilst his daughter with his first wife Cordelia Beresford is a cinematographer.
Bruce Beresford found wide critical success as a director for his 1980 film Breaker Morant. As a director, Beresford storyboards and...
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