Ross Dimsey

Ross Dimsey (born 10 October 1943) is an Australian writer, producer, director and film executive.

He was born in Melbourne and worked in Britain and America from 1965-68. He worked in a variety of capacities on a number of films.

From 1979-1982 he was head of the Victorian Film Corporation.^[1][2] In the 1990s he was the director of Film Queensland.^[3]

Select credits

• Stork (1971) - assistant director
• Dimboola (1973) - directed feature version of play that was never released
• Libido (1973) - production manager, assistant director
• Alvin Rides Again (1974) - production manager, assistant director
• End Play (1975) - 2nd unit director, production manager
• Fantasm (1976) - writer
• Fantasm Comes Again (1977) - writer
• Blue Fire Lady (1977) - writer, director
• Final Cut (1980) - director
• Second Time Lucky (1984) - writer
• The Naked Country (1985) - producer, writer
• A Thousand Skies (1985) (mini-serires) - producer
• Kangaroo (1987) - producer, 2nd unit director
• Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987) - producer
• The Four Minute Mile (1988) (min-series) - executive producer
• Becca (1988) (TV movie) - executive producer
• This Man... This Woman (1989) (mini-series) - producer
• Inside Running (1989) (TV series) - producer
• Darlings of the Gods (1989) (mini series) - producer
• The Great Air Race (1990) (TV movie) - producer
• House Rules (1990) (TV series) - producer

Unmade films

• Body Count - announced in 1977 from the novel Reservation Cowboys by Forrest Redlich produced by Antony I. Ginnane but never made^[4]

References

1. David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p285
2. "Dimsey Departs", Cinema Papers, December 1982 p500
3. Scott Murray, "From the soil: an interview with Ross Dimsey", Cinema Papers, March 1995 p14-16, 57
4. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, July 1977 p57

External links

• Ross Dimsey at IMDB