Jill Robb
Jill Robb AM (1934 – 16 January 2022) was an English-born Australian film producer and executive who worked mostly in Australia.
Biography
[edit]Robb began in the film industry as a stand in for Jill Adams on Dust in the Sun (1958).
Robb was a founding board member of the Australian Film Commission, inaugural CEO of the Victorian Film Corporation (now Film Victoria) and a member of the Film Victoria Board from 1983 to 1989.[1]
Robb served for many years on the Board of the Playbox Theatre Company during the difficult years following the 1984 fire. She left at the end of 1989.[2]
She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2011 Australia Day Honours for "service to the Australian film and television industries as a producer, through executive roles with industry organisations, and as a mentor to emerging filmmakers".[3]
She died on 16 January 2022, at the age of 87.[4]
Select credits
[edit]- The Fourth Wish (1976) – associate producer
- Dawn! (1979) – executive producer
- Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) – producer
- Phoenix (1992–93) (TV series) – executive producer
- Stark (1993) (mini series) – executive producer
- Secrets (1993–94) (TV series) – executive producer
References
[edit]- ^ Don Groves, "Another award for Jill Robb", If Magazine 15 November 2013 accessed 3 April 2014
- ^ Playbox theatre programmes/
- ^ "Ms Jill Robb". It's an Honour. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ Keast, Jackie (28 January 2022). "Vale Jill Robb, pioneering producer and leader". IF Magazine. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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