Graeme Clifford
Age: N/A | From: Sydney, Australia
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Sydney, Australia
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Movie Involvements: 30
TV Involvements: 8
Most Famous Work
Biography
Graeme Clifford is an acclaimed Australian film director, his directing credits include the Academy Award nominated film Frances, Gleaming the Cube and the mini-series The Last Don, which received two Emmy nominations. Clifford was a leading film editor for over ten years, before he made an impressive feature directorial debut with Frances, the dramatic real-life story of actress Frances Farmer, which gained Academy Award nominations for Jessica Lange and Kim Stanley. His second feature outing was the Australian historical adventure-drama Burke & Wills which was chosen as a participant in the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.He followed up with the contemporary action-suspense drama Gleaming the Cube, starring Christian Slater, and Deception (a.k.a. Ruby Cairo), starring Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen. Born in Sydney, Australia, Clifford obtained his wide-ranging experience in editing, special effects, sound recording/mixing, animation and assistant directing at Artransa Park, Sydney’s only film studio for many years. He received additional tutelage working under directors like Robert Altman and Nicholas Roeg. His collaborations with Altman include M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Images and The Long Goodbye. For Roeg, Clifford edited Don't Look Now, for which he was nominated for a British Academy Award, as well as The Man Who Fell to Earth. Clifford’s other feature editing credits include Norman Jewison’s F.I.S.T., Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy, Bob Rafelson’s The Postman Always Rings Twice and the cult-classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Clifford’s television directorial credits are many and varied. They include episodes of Joan of Arcadia, The Guardian, Twin Peaks and Faerie Tale Theatre, and the movies Profoundly Normal (Kirstie Alley, Delroy Lindo), See You In My Dreams (Aidan Quinn, Marcia Gay Harden), Redeemer (Matthew Modine), Past Tense (Scott Glenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Anthony LaPaglia) and Mario Puzo’s The Last Don Parts I and II, an Emmy-nominated 10 hour mini-series (Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Jason Gedrick, Daryl Hannah). Description above from the Wikipedia article Graeme Clifford, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Twin Peaks
(1990) Director
The Guardian
(2001) Director
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
(1975) Music Editor
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1981) Editor
Don't Look Now
(1973) Editor
Joan of Arcadia
(2003) Director
The New Avengers
(1976) Director
The Man Who Fell to Earth
(1976) EditorActing
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Directing
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| 1969 | Second Assistant Director | |
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Production
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| 2003 | Producer | |
| 1985 | Producer | |
| 1971 | Casting | |
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Editing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1981 | Editor | |
| 1978 | Editor | |
| 1976 | Editor | |
| 1975 | Editor | |
| 1973 | Editor | |
| 1972 | Editor | |
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Sound
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| 1975 | Music Editor | |
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