Phillip Roger Noyce AO (born April 29, 1950) is an Australian film and television director. A prominent figure of the Australian New Wave movement (which includes Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, Tim Burstall, John Duigan, Richard Franklin, Ken Hannam, George Miller, Russell Mulcahy, Henri Safran, Fred Schepisi, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Peter Weir, and Simon Wincer), he’s received various accolades, including AACTA Awards for Best Film, Best Director and a special Longford Lyell lifetime achievement award.
His early films include Backroads (1977), with Bill Hunter and Gary Foley; Newsfront (1978), with Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood, Bryan Brown. Gerard Kennedy; Heatwave (1982), with Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Hunter, Haywood, John Gregg, and John Mellion; Echoes of Paradise (1987), with Hughes and John Lone; Dead Calm (1989), with Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, and Billy Zane; and Blind Fury (1989), with Rutger Hauer, Terry O’Quinn, Lisa Blount, Randall “Tex” Cobb, Noble Willingham, Nick Cassavetes, and Meg Foster.
Films in the 1990s include Patriot Games (1992), Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones, Sean Bean, Patrick Bergin, Thora Birch, Samuel L. Jackson, James Fox, and Richard Harris; Sliver (1993), with Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Coleen Camp, Martin Landau, and C.C.H. Pounder; Clear and Present Danger (1994), with Ford, Archer, Jones, Willam Dafoe, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Magnuson, and Hope Lange; The Saint (1997), with Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, and Rade Šerbedžija; and The Bone Collector (1999), with Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone, Luis Guzmán, Leland Orser, and Ed O’Neill.
Films in the 2000s include Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), with Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, and Kenneth Branagh; The Quiet American (2002), with Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Šerbedžija, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton, and Holmes Osborne; Catch a Fire (2006), with Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, and Bonnie Henna; Salt (2010), with Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Andre Braugher; TV movie Mary and Martha (2013), with Hilary Swank, Brenda Blethyn, Sam Claflin, and James Woods; and The Giver (2014), with Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Swift, and Emma Tremblay.
Films in the 2020s include Above Suspension (2021), with Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Karl Glusman, Chris Mulkey, Omar Miller, Kevin Dunn, Birch, and Johnny Knoxville; The Desperate Hour (2022), with Naomi Watts; Fast Charlie (2023), with Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Toby Huss, Jacob Grodnik, Sharon Gless, and James Caan.
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(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Homesdale (1971) – directed by Peter Weir – uncredited actor
- Backroads (1977)
- Newsfront (1978)
- Heatwave (1982)
- Echoes of Paradise (1987)
- Dead Calm (1989)
- Blind Fury (1989)
- Patriot Games (1992)
- Silver (1993)
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- The Saint (1997)
- The Bone Collector (1999)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
- The Quiet American (2002)
- Catch a Fire (2006)
- Salt (2010)
- Mary and Martha 2013) – TV movie
- The Giver (2014)
- Above Suspicion (2021)
- The Desperate (2022)
- Fast Charlie (2023)
- Ally Clark (202-)
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