Phillip Avalon
Phillip Avalon (b 24 February 1955) is an Australian writer, producer, director and actor of films and TV.
Film writer Scott Murray wrote in 1993 that:
If Australia has any producer-cum-auteurs, then Phillip Avalon is certainly one... Avalon's films are preoccupied with violence bubbling to the surface in a lower-middle-class society repressed by Christian and materialist values. He has a decided affinity for the topsider, for those who refuse to play society's games, and whose anti-social attitudes may, in fact, conceal a soul well attuned to life's pulses.[1]
Biography
Avalon first came to public attention as a model, then he moved into acting.[2] He produced and starred in Summer City (1977), a drama set around a surfing town which became a hit, and was Mel Gibson's first movie.[3][4] He was later called in to help make the film Little Boy Lost (1978).[5][6]
Select Filmography
- Number 96 (1974) (film) - cameo
- Double Dealer (1975) (TV movie)
- Summer City (1977) - producer, actor
- Little Boy Lost (1978)
- Waverider (1985)
- Breaking Loose (1988) - producer
- Sher Mountain Killings Mystery (1990) - producer
- Exchange Lifeguards (1992)
- Fatal Bond (1993)
- Signal One (1994)
- Tunnel Vision (1995)
- The Finder (2001)
- The Pact (2003)
- Liquid Bridge (2003)
- William Kelly's War (2014)
References
- ^ Scott Murray, "Fatal Bond", Cinema Papers, January 1993 p45
- ^ "Centrefold Phil turns a page". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 43, , no. 49. Australia, Australia. 5 May 1976. p. 48. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "WHO'S DOING WHAT". Filmnews. Vol. 7, , no. 3. New South Wales, Australia. 1 April 1977. p. 14. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "AUSTRALIAN FILMS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON". Filmnews. Vol. 8, , no. 1. New South Wales, Australia. 1 January 1978. p. 1. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "IS LITTLE BOY LOST LOST?". Filmnews. Vol. 8, , no. 6. New South Wales, Australia. 1 June 1978. p. 3. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "Little Boy Lost may shy off the first-night glitter". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 46, , no. 23. Australia, Australia. 8 November 1978. p. 11. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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External links
- Phillip Avalon at IMDb
- Phil Avalon at BFI
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