Graeme Clifford

Directing·Sydney, Australia

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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. 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. Born in Sydney, Australia, Clifford obtained his wide-ranging experience in editing, special effects, sound recording/mixing, animation and assistant directing at Artransa Park, Sydney’s only film studio for many years. He received additional tutelage working under directors like Robert Altman and Nicholas Roeg. His collaborations with Altman include M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Images and The Long Goodbye. For Roeg, Clifford edited Don't Look Now, for which he was nominated for a British Academy Award, as well as The Man Who Fell to Earth. Clifford’s other feature editing credits include Norman Jewison’s F.I.S.T., Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy, Bob Rafelson’s The Postman Always Rings Twice and the cult-classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Clifford’s television directorial credits are many and varied. They include episodes of Joan of Arcadia, The Guardian, Twin Peaks and Faerie Tale Theatre, and the movies Profoundly Normal (Kirstie Alley, Delroy Lindo), See You In My Dreams (Aidan Quinn, Marcia Gay Harden), Redeemer (Matthew Modine), Past Tense (Scott Glenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Anthony LaPaglia) and Mario Puzo’s The Last Don Parts I and II, an Emmy-nominated 10 hour mini-series (Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Jason Gedrick, Daryl Hannah). Description above from the Wikipedia article Graeme Clifford, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
Way Out on a Limb2016 · Self	Self
Way Out on a Limb2016 · Actor	Actor
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos2009 · Self	Self
Write & Wrong2007 · Director	Director
Family Sins2005 · Director	Director
See You in My Dreams2004 · Director	Director
RRemembering Charlie2003 · Director	Director
Profoundly Normal2003 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Watching the Alien2003 · Self	Self
Don't Look Now: Looking Back2002 · Himself	Himself
Crossing the Line2002 · Director	Director
Redeemer2002 · Director	Director
A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances2001 · Himself	Himself
Caracara2000 · Director	Director
My Husband's Secret Life1998 · Director	Director
AA Loss of Innocence1996 · Director	Director
Past Tense1994 · Director	Director
Ruby Cairo1992 · Director	Director
The Turn of the Screw1989 · Director	Director
Gleaming the Cube1989 · Director	Director
Burke & Wills1985 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers1984 · Director	Director
Little Red Riding Hood1983 · Director	Director
Frances1982 · Director	Director