Simon Wincer

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Simon Wincer
Born	1943 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1971 - present
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special 1989 Lonesome Dove

Simon Wincer (born 1943 in Sydney) is an Australian film director and film producer. He attended Cranbrook School, Belleview Hill, Sydney from 1950 to 1961. On leaving school he worked as a stage hand at TV Station Channel 7. During the 1980s he directed over 200 hours of television. In 1986 he directed the made for TV movie The Last Frontier and also won the prestigious Christopher Award.

In 1993, he directed his most successful film, Free Willy. In 1996, Wincer directed Paramount's big budget comic strip adaptation, The Phantom, starring Billy Zane, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kristy Swanson.

[edit] Filmography

• Comanche Moon (2008)
• Into the West (2005)
• NASCAR 3D: The Imax Experience (2004)
• The Young Black Stallion (2003)
• Monte Walsh (2003)
• Ponderosa (2001) (prequel to Bonanza)
• Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
• Crossfire Trail (2001)
• Murder She Purred, A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (1998)
• The Phantom (1996)
• Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
• Lightning Jack (1994)
• Free Willy (1993)
• Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
• Quigley Down Under (1990)
• Lonesome Dove (1989)
• D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
• Phar Lap (1983)
• The Man from Snowy River (1982)

[edit] External links

• Simon Wincer at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special George Cukor (1975) · Daniel Petrie (1976) · Daniel Petrie (1977) · David Lowell Rich (1978) · David Greene (1979) · Marvin J. Chomsky (1980) · James Goldstone (1981) · Marvin J. Chomsky (1982) · John Erman (1983) · Jeff Bleckner (1984) · Lamont Johnson (1985) · Joseph Sargent (1986) · Glenn A. Jordan (1987) · Lamont Johnson (1988) · Simon Wincer (1989) · Joseph Sargent (1990) · Brian Gibson (1991) · Joseph Sargent (1992) · James Steven Sadwith (1993) · John Frankenheimer (1994) · John Frankenheimer (1995) · John Frankenheimer (1996) · Andrei Konchalovsky (1997) · John Frankenheimer (1998) · Allan Arkush (1999) · Charles S. Dutton (2000) Complete list: (1975-2000) · (2001-present)