Phillip Noyce
Known for DirectingBorn 1950-04-29Griffith, New South Wales, Australia
Phillip Roger Noyce AO (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama (Newsfront, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Quiet American); thrillers (Dead Calm, Sliver, The Bone Collector); and action films (Blind Fury, The Saint, Salt). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), as well as the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver.
Noyce has worked with various actors, including Val Kilmer, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Rutger Hauer, as well as three films featuring Thora Birch, spanning over 25 years. He has also directed, written and executive-produced television programmes in both Australia and North America, including The Cowra Breakout, Vietnam, Revenge, Roots, and Netflix's What/If.
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Noyce's work has won him several accolades, including AACTA Awards for Best Film, Best Director and a special Longford Lyell lifetime achievement award.
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Known for
The Bone Collector
1999 · as Customer in Antique Bookshop (uncredited)
Tausend Augen
1984 · as Mann in der Fähre
Critic
2008 · as Self
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003 · as Himself - Director
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002 · as Self
Senses of Cinema
2022 · as Self
John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows
2021 · as Self
Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973
1974 · as Himself