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Graeme Clifford is a Actor, Director, Casting, Second Assistant Director, Editor and Music Editor Australien born on 1942 at Sydney (Australie)

Graeme Clifford

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Birth name Graeme Clifford
Nationality Australie
Birth 1942 (83 years) at Sydney (Australie)

Graeme Clifford is an acclaimed Australian film director, his directing credits include the Academy Award-nominated film Frances, Gleaming the Cube and the mini-series The Last Don, which received two Emmy nominations.

Clifford was a leading film editor for over ten years, before he made an impressive feature directorial debut with Frances, the dramatic real-life story of actress Frances Farmer, which gained Academy Award nominations for Jessica Lange and Kim Stanley and was also entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His second feature outing was the Australian historical adventure-drama Burke & Wills which was chosen as a participant in the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. He followed up with the contemporary action-suspense drama Gleaming the Cube, starring Christian Slater, and Deception (a.k.a. Ruby Cairo), starring Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen.

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Robert Altman
Robert Altman
(3 films)
Jim Sharman
Jim Sharman
(1 films)
Jack Riley
Jack Riley
(3 films)
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Filmography of Graeme Clifford (16 films)

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Actor

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos, 1h44
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Sharon Stone, John Boorman, Karen Black, Sandra Bullock
Roles Self
Rating77% 3.86163.86163.86163.86163.8616
This documentary traces the careers of cinematographers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond. These lifelong friends are Hungarian expatriates who had been studying cinematography in Hungary and defected following the 1956 Soviet invasion. Coincidentally, they also photographed many of the tumultuous events during the invasion.

Director

Write & Wrong, 1h29
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Kirstie Alley, Eric Christian Olsen, Tobias Mehler, Brittney Irvin, Rob LaBelle, Jerry Wasserman
Rating55% 2.752822.752822.752822.752822.75282
Birdy Langdon, 50 ans, est une scénariste bien connue à Hollywood. Mais depuis quelque temps, ses scénarios n'intéressent plus les studios. L'industrie cinématographique souhaite favoriser l'émergence de jeunes talents. Lorsqu'un de ses scripts est de nouveau refusé, Birdie a une idée : elle demande à son neveu, Jason, d'être son prête-nom. Ce jeune et séduisant vendeur de voitures est doté d'un aplomb phénoménal. Et Jason accepte, en effet, avec enthousiasme. Se prenant au jeu, il parvient à faire accepter un script à Andrea Davis, importante productrice travaillant pour un studio. Mais il ignore que Birdie est la meilleure amie d'Andrea…
Crossing the Line, 1h36
Directed by Graeme Clifford, Daniel Gordon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Actors Christian Slater, Lawrence Dane, Sherry Miller, Adrian Pasdar, Terry Farrell, Sumela Kay
Rating73% 3.6861453.6861453.6861453.6861453.686145
The film is about a former U.S. Army soldier, James J. Dresnok, who defected to North Korea on August 15, 1962. It was directed and produced by British filmmakers Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner, and was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Crossing the Line, which was narrated by actor Christian Slater, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the festival.
Ruby Cairo
Ruby Cairo (1992)

Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Chad Power, Jack Thompson, Günter Meisner
Rating50% 2.503092.503092.503092.503092.50309
When Bessie Faro's (Andie MacDowell) husband Johnny (Viggo Mortensen) dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she finds a packet of baseball cards that have been marked up by Johnny. Recognizing his system for marking betting slips at race tracks, she decodes the cards and realizes that they indicate a bank account. When she tries to withdraw money from the account, she is denied. She realizes that the account is in the name of the player on the card, Onix Concepción.
Gleaming the Cube, 1h45
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films
Actors Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Stacy Peralta, Richard Herd, Max Perlich, Ed Lauter
Rating62% 3.147173.147173.147173.147173.14717
Brian Kelly is an underachieving high school student living in Orange County, California. An avid skateboarder along with many of his friends, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his increasingly reckless behavior, which has landed him in jail on more than one occasion. The only person in the family Brian can relate to is his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh, who works as a shipping clerk for the Vietnamese Anti-Communist Relief Fund (VACRF), an organization whose stated purpose is to send medical supplies to Vietnam.
Burke & Wills, 2h20
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi, Chris Haywood, Drew Forsythe, Susannah Harker
Rating62% 3.137033.137033.137033.137033.13703
Burke and Wills are portrayed as bold but flawed figures. Burke is anxious to return to his sweetheart in Melbourne, and win fame and honor for himself in the 'race' across Australia. Wills is the consummate English gentleman and faithful follower to the end. Impressive Australian desert vistas help to build the dramatic tension as Burke's rash decisions come to a head.
Frances
Frances (1983)
, 2h20
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Jonathan Banks, Jeffrey DeMunn, Allan Rich
Rating71% 3.5969053.5969053.5969053.5969053.596905
Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $100 in 1931 from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies. In 1935, she becomes controversial again when she wins (and accepts) an all-expenses-paid trip to the USSR to visit the Moscow Art Theatre. Determined to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to publicity stunts, and insists upon appearing on screen without makeup. She marries her first husband, Dwanye Steele, despite being advised not to, but cheats on him with alleged Communist Harry York on the night of her hometown's premiere of Come and Get It. Her defiance attracts the attention of Broadway playwright Clifford Odets, who convinces Frances that her future rests with the Group Theatre.

Producer

Burke & Wills, 2h20
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi, Chris Haywood, Drew Forsythe, Susannah Harker
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.137033.137033.137033.137033.13703
Burke and Wills are portrayed as bold but flawed figures. Burke is anxious to return to his sweetheart in Melbourne, and win fame and honor for himself in the 'race' across Australia. Wills is the consummate English gentleman and faithful follower to the end. Impressive Australian desert vistas help to build the dramatic tension as Burke's rash decisions come to a head.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 2h
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Michael Murphy, William Devane, Shelley Duvall
Roles Casting
Rating75% 3.7968353.7968353.7968353.7968353.796835
In 1902 Washington, a gambler named John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church (named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused [in the film] chapel), in the north-west United States. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter.

Director

That Cold Day in the Park, 1h53
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Michael Murphy, Susanne Benton, Luana Anders
Roles Second Assistant Director
Rating69% 3.493373.493373.493373.493373.49337
That Cold Day in the Park est un thriller psychologique de 1969 réalisé par Robert Altman, adaptation du roman éponyme de Peter Miles par Gillian Freeman. Le film a été tourné à Vancouver. Le film a été projeté au Festival de Cannes en 1969, hors compétition.

Editor

The Postman Always Rings Twice, 2h2
Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, Anjelica Huston, William Traylor, Christopher Lloyd
Roles Editor
Rating65% 3.299153.299153.299153.299153.29915
Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), a drifter, stops at a rural California diner for a meal, and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora Smith (Jessica Lange), and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis (John Colicos), who is an immigrant from Greece. Frank and Cora start to have an affair soon after they meet. Cora is tired of her situation, married to a man she does not love, and working at a diner that she wishes to own and improve. She and Frank scheme to murder Nick in order to start a new life together without her losing the diner. Their first attempt at the murder is a failure, but they eventually succeed.
F.I.S.T.
F.I.S.T. (1978)
, 2h25
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Trucker films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Political films, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Kevin Conway
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.20173.20173.20173.20173.2017
At a loading dock in Cleveland, Ohio in 1937, supervisor Mr. Gant welcomes a new worker, Lincoln Dombrowsky (Frank McRae). Gant tells him the job requirements and pay rules. He'll be paid for working 8 hours and if he has to work overtime, he still gets paid only for 8 hours. If he drops any of the merchandise, the cost comes directly out of his pay. These are examples of unfair working practices faced by the laborers. Later Dombrowsky drops a few carts of tomatoes, which is taken out of his pay; another worker is fired for helping him collect the fallen merchandise. Johnny Kovak (Sylvester Stallone), another worker resentful of mistreatment, leads a riot. Afterward, the workers go to the office of Boss Andrews. Kovak believes he negotiates a deal for the workers, but the next day he and his friend Abe Belkin (David Huffman) are told they are fired.
The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1h59
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey, Claudia Jennings
Roles Editor
Rating65% 3.298133.298133.298133.298133.29813
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing a catastrophic drought.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1h36
Directed by Jim Sharman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Comedy horror films, Erotic thriller films, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, Jonathan Adams (acteur britannique), Peter Hinwood
Roles Editor
Rating74% 3.700393.700393.700393.700393.70039
A criminologist narrates the tale of the newly engaged couple Brad Majors and Janet Weiss who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late November evening. Seeking a telephone, the couple walk to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange and outlandish people who are holding an Annual Transylvanian Convention. They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank N. Furter, a self-proclaimed "sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania". The ensemble of convention attendees also includes servants Riff Raff, his sister Magenta, and a groupie named Columbia.