Frank Shields (born 29 March 1947) is an Australian director of film and TV.
He broke into the film industry in the 1970s by making a film about Breaker Morant which he shot partly in Africa. [1]
Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant, probably born Edwin Henry Murrant, was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet and military officer, who was convicted and executed for murder during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Hostage is a 1983 Australian film based on the true story of Christine Maresch, a Wollongong teenager who wound up married to a German bank robber.
The Surfer is a 1986 Australian film directed by Frank Shields and starring Gary Day and Gosia Dobrowolska. The screenplay concerns a beach bum whose best friend is murdered and who becomes involved in a cross country chase.
Fatal Sky is a 1990 science fiction thriller film. It was also known as No Cause for Alarm and Vanished. The movie was not theatrically released and went straight through to video.
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career. Notable films he has directed include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
John Russell Waters is an English-born film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician best known in Australia, where he moved to in 1968. He is the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 40 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series Play School for almost 20 years.
Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who also co-wrote the screenplay which was based on Kenneth G. Ross' 1978 play of the same name.
The Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC) were a short-lived, irregular mounted infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
George Ramsdale Witton was a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa.
The 1902 court-martial of Breaker Morant brought to trial six officers – Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock, George Witton, Henry Picton, Captain Alfred Taylor and Major Robert Lenehan – of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), an irregular regiment of mounted rifles during the Boer War.
Terence Donovan, also known as Terry Donovan, is an English-Australian actor of stage and television, and the father of fellow actor and singer Jason Donovan. He is best known for his roles as Doug Willis in soap opera Neighbours and has appeared in TV drama series since its early days, including police drama series Division 4 and Cop Shop, as well as minor parts in numerous serials including Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice, E Street and Al Simpson in Home and Away.
Arnold Christopher "Kit" Denton, originally Arnold Ditkofsky, was a writer and broadcaster prominent in Australia. Denton was born in England and was of Polish Jewish descent. He is the father of comedian and television presenter Andrew Denton.
Donald McAlpine, ACS and ASC is an Australian cinematographer.
Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant.
Backstage is a 1988 Australian film starring American singer Laura Branigan. The film was written and directed by Academy Award nominee Jonathan Hardy, who had also written Breaker Morant.
Peter Joseph Handcock was an Australian-born Veterinary Lieutenant who served in the Bushveldt Carbineers during the Boer War in South Africa.
Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts is a significant Australian play written by Kenneth G. Ross, centred on the court-martial and the last days of Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant (1864–1902) of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), that was first performed at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978, by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Carl August Daniel Heese was a German missionary in South Africa. He was killed during the Second Boer War, his death was one of the issues at the court martial of Breaker Morant.
Pardons for Morant, Handcock and Witton, three Australian soldiers, were sought from their convictions for war crimes - the murder of several Boer prisoners-of-war - during the Second Boer War.
David Stevens was an New Zealand-Australian writer and director, best known for his work on The Sum of Us, A Town Like Alice, and Breaker Morant.
The Tenterfield Star, also published as The Tenterfield Star and New England Chronicle and The Tenterfield Record and Border Advertiser, is a semi-weekly English language newspaper published in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia.
The Breaker is a 1974 documentary about Breaker Morant directed by Frank Shields.
Captain Percy Frederick Hunt was a British army officer who was killed during the Second Boer War. He is best known for his relationship with Breaker Morant.
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