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18th December 1950 |
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Gillian Armstrong (born December 18, 1950 in Melbourne, Australia) is a film director.
Career
Gillian Armstrong graduated from Swinburne technical college in 1968 in art and later graduated from the Australian Film and Television School. Her feature length film My Brilliant Career (1979), an adaptation of Miles Franklin's novel of the same name, was the first Australian feature length film to be directed by a woman for 46 years. Since then, Armstrong has specialised in period drama, directing films including Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Charlotte Grey (2001).
Films by Armstrong
- Charlotte Gray (2001)
- Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
- Not Fourteen Again (1996)
- Little Women (1994)
- The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
- Fires Within (1991)
- Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces (1988)
- High Tide (1987)
- Hard to Handle (1986)
- Mrs. Soffel (1984)
- Having a Go (1983)
- Starstruck (1982)
- Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better (1980)
- Touch Wood (1980)
- My Brilliant Career (1979)
- The Singer and the Dancer (1977)
- Clean Straw for Nothing (1976)
- Smokes and Lollies (1975)
- Gretel (1973)
- One Hundred a Day (1973)
- Satdee Night (1973)
- Roof Needs Mowing (1971)
- Old Man and Dog (1970)
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