Anthony Buckley

Australian film editor and producer

Anthony Buckley AO (born 27 July 1937) is an Australian film producer and editor.

Career

On leaving school, Buckley went to work for Cinesound Productions as a projectionist and assistant editor. He worked in Canada and Britain before returning to Australia in 1965. He went to work at Ajax Films and moved into producing.^[1]

He edited Michael Powell's Age of Consent.^[2]

In 1974 he produced the train film A Steam Train Passes.^[3] 24 years later he produced another two train films, Savannahlander and Gulflander. He produced the mini-series The Harp in the South and its sequel Poor Man's Orange.^[4]

Honours and awards

• 1977 Order of Australia^[5]
• Raymond Longford Award Lifetime Achievement Award
• Ken G. Hall Award

Partial filmography

As editor

• The Stowaway (1958) (assistant)
• Age of Consent (1969)
• Adam's Woman (1970)
• Wake in Fright (1971)
• Don Quixote (1973)

As producer

• Forgotten Cinema (1967) – documentary
• Snow, Sand and Savages
• Caddie (1976)
• A Steam Train Passes (1974)
• The Night the Prowler (1978)
• The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
• Bliss (1985)
• The Harp in the South (1986)
• Poor Man's Orange (1987)
• The Heroes (1989) – mini-series
• Roads Without Wheels. Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific. Landmark Media. 1989.^[6]
• More Winners – Mr Edmond (1990)
• Heroes II: The Return (1991) – mini-series
• Nazi Supergrass (1993)
• Bedevil (1993)
• The Celluloid Heroes (1995) - documentary series
• Yum Cha Cha (2001)
• Oyster Farmer (2004)
• Savannahlander (2008)
• Gulflander (2010)
• At the Coliseum Deluxe (2019)

References

1. David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p11
2. "Age of Consent (1969)". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.
3. "A Steam Train Passes (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020.
4. "Anthony Buckley". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017.
5. "Anthony Buckley AM – Australian Screen Editors". www.screeneditors.com.au. 2 March 2006.
6. Roads Without Wheels (DVD). Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific. Robert Raymond (Director). Alan Thorne (Narrator). Anthony Buckley (Producer). Falls Church, VA: Landmark Media. 1989. OCLC 664751633.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

• Anthony Buckley at IMDb
• Anthony Buckley's films at the National Film and Sound Archive