Tom Jeffrey
Australian director

Tom Jeffrey

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Australian director
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26 September 1938(Sydney, Australia)
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Tom Jeffrey AM (born 26 September 1938) is an Australian film and television producer and director. He worked at the ABC and BBC, becoming an ABC drama director in the late 1960s. In 1971 he became head of the Producers and Directors Guild of Australia. He was also a consultant on the Experimental Film Fund and on the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australian Council for the Arts.

From the early 1980s he stopped directing and concentrated on producing.

Jeffrey was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1981 Australia Day Honours.

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  • Stormy Petrel (1959) (TV series) – assistant
  • Crackerjack (1966) (TV series) – director
  • This Day Tonight (1968) (current affairs TV series) – studio director
  • Delta (1969) – TV series
  • Pastures of the Blue Crane (1969) (TV series) – director
  • The Removalists (1975) – director
  • Weekend of Shadows (1978) – director
  • The Odd Angry Shot (1979) – director
  • The Best of Friends (1982) – producer
  • Fighting Back (1982) – producer
  • Going Sane (1985) – producer