Fred Schepisi

Director: Fred Schepisi

Born: Dec 26, 1936 in Melbourne, Australia
Occupation: Director, Writer
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Six Degrees of Separation, A Cry in the Dark, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
First Major Screen Credit: Libido (1973)

Biography

The son of an Australian car salesman, Fred Schepisi half-heartedly pursued a life as a priest, but left the seminary by the age of 15. Schepisi then shifted his interest to the world of TV advertising. After directing several commercials, he moved into documentary filmmaking, winning an Australian Film Institute award in the process. Schepisi then set up his own highly respected production company, The Film House. He was 36 years old before he had the time and financial backing to direct his first fictional feature, the semi-autobiographical The Devil's Playground (1976). With his race-conscious The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1978), Schepisi gained international renown; he used his new industry clout to leave Australia behind for a Hollywood career, briefly returning to his native country for the wrenchingly true story of trial-by-headline, A Cry in the Dark (1988). Schepisi's American-produced output has included Iceman (1984), The Russia House (1989), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), and the long-delayed Mr. Baseball (1993). A few low-key films such as Fierce Creatures (1997) and It Runs in the Family (2003) followed, but Schepisi made a serious mark with his Golden Globe winning adaptation of Richard Russo's novel Empire Falls. The HBO mini series starred Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, and Robin Wright Penn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Fred Schepisi
Born	Frederic Alan Schepisi 16 December 1939 (1939-12-16) (age 69) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Fred Schepisi AO (born 16 December 1939) is an award-winning Australian film director and screenwriter. His credits include: Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, and Six Degrees of Separation.

Schepisi was born Frederic Alan Schepisi in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of fruit dealer Frederic Thomas Schepisi and Loretto Ellen (née Hare)^[1]. He began his career in advertising and directed both commercials and documentaries before helming his first feature film, The Devil's Playground, in 1976.

Schepisi won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay for both The Devil's Playground and Evil Angels (released in the US as A Cry in the Dark).

In 2005 Schepisi directed and co-produced the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, for which he was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special and the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director of a TV Film.

In April 2008 it was announced Film Finance Corporation Australia was providing funding for Schepisi's film The Last Man, about the final days of the Vietnam War. It is scheduled to begin filming in Queensland, with Guy Pearce and David Wenham in leading roles, towards the end of the year^[2].

Schepisi has also directed a number of music videos, including for the 2008 song "Breathe" by Kaz James featuring Stu Stone.^[3]

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References

^ Fred Schepisi at FilmReference.com
^ "Fred Schepisi's new local venture" by Daniel Ziffer at TheAge.com.au
^ "MTV Confidential" The Daily Telegraph, 23 April 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2009.

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v • d • e Films directed by Fred Schepisi

1970s	The Devil's Playground (1976) · The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

1980s	Barbarosa (1982) · Iceman (1984) · Plenty (1985) · Roxanne (1987) · A Cry in the Dark (1988)

1990s	The Russia House (1990) · Mr. Baseball (1992) · Six Degrees of Separation (1993) · I.Q. (1994) · Fierce Creatures (1997)

2000s	Last Orders (2001) · It Runs in the Family (2003)

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