John Duigan

This article is about the film director. For the pioneer aviator and aircraft-builder, see John Robertson Duigan.

John Duigan, (born 19 June 1949 in Hampshire, England, UK) is an Australian film director.

Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of novelistVirginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford.

Duigan has directed 23 films, including Romero, Lawn Dogs, The Parole Officer, Sirens, and Head in the Clouds. He intended his magnum opus to be The Danny Embling Trilogy, three films centered around the character Danny Embling, an artistic youth growing up in 1960s Australia whose life is influenced by the socially changing world around him and a series of doomed love affairs. The first two films in the series were the critically acclaimed The Year My Voice Broke, and Flirting, both of which won the Australian Film Institute awards for best picture the years they were released.

Thandie Newton claims that director John Duigan forced her as a 16-year old into a relationship with him which lasted six years, despite being 23 years her senior.

Filmography

Director

• The Engagement (2011)
• Head in the Clouds (2004)
• The Parole Officer (2001)
• Paranoid (2000)
• Molly (1999)
• Lawn Dogs (1997)
• The Leading Man (1996)
• The Journey of August King (1995)
• Sirens (1994)
• Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
• Flirting (1991)
• Romero (1989)
• Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (1988, TV)
• The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
• Vietnam (TV miniseries) (1987)
• Room to Move (1987 TV movie)
• Winners (1985 TV series) - episode "Room to Move"
• One Night Stand (1984)
• Far East (1982)
• Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
• Dimboola (1979)
• Mouth to Mouth (1978)
• The Trespassers (1976)
• The Firm Man (1975)

Actor

• Bonjour Balwyn (1971)

External links

• John Duigan at the Internet Movie Database