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).
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Graeme Clifford Biography / Wiki
| Name | Graeme Clifford |
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| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Sydney, Australia |
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| Age(as in 2022) | 0 |
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Graeme Clifford Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Way Out on a Limb | Self | 2016-10-11 | Documentary with several of director Robert Altman’s longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style an… |
| Don’t Look Now: Looking Back | Himself | 2002-07-29 | In this short making-of documentary, director Nicolas Roeg discusses the production history of the film and the unique qualities of Daphne Du Maurier’… |
| A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances | Himself | 2001-01-01 | The making of FRANCES, a retrospective documentary…. |
| Watching the Alien | 2003-01-01 | Documentary about The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)… | |
| No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos | Self | 2009-01-11 | The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot … |
Graeme Clifford Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Gleaming the Cube | Director | 1989-01-13 | An Orange County teenager’s carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him die… |
| Frances | Director | 1982-12-03 | The true story of Frances Farmer’s meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted…. |
| Write & Wrong | Director | 2007-03-06 | Quickly approaching her fiftieth birthday, talented and once-famous screenwriter Byrdie has lately had a hard time finding work in the movie biz. As s… |
| Caracara | Director | 2000-01-14 | A woman becomes entangled in the conspiracy of two world governments to assassinate an international leader in New York…. |
| Ruby Cairo | Director | 1993-10-29 | Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband’s money trail around the world…. |
| Profoundly Normal | Director | 2003-02-09 | Donna Lee Shelby, a mentally challenged girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton, a fel… |
| Family Sins | Director | 2005-02-07 | Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matr… |
| Past Tense | Director | 1994-06-12 | A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to anothe… |
| Burke & Wills | Director | 1985-10-30 | A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century…. |
| Redeemer | Director | 2002-01-31 | When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Ch… |
| My Husband’s Secret Life | Director | 1998-07-08 | A policeman’s widow (Archer) uncovers corruption within the force after meeting a woman (Alonso) who was tied to her husband’s mysterious death…. |
| A Loss of Innocence | Director | 1996-09-28 | Erik Eriksen, who has become a successful pianist in New York, is back in Templeton, his Mormon community, where he is still treated distrustfully by … |
| Crossing the Line | Director | 2002-07-15 | A former basketball star moves to a small town to assistant coach for a high school championship-winning basketball team…. |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Director | 1983-11-10 | A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf…. |
| The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers | Director | 1984-09-17 | An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, “t… |
| The Turn of the Screw | Director | 1989-08-12 | A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint… |
| That Cold Day in the Park | Second Assistant Director | 1969-06-08 | Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she … |
| See You in My Dreams | Director | 2004-06-13 | Joe, an overwrought rancher is striving from his harsh upbringing, trying make a better life for his family. When his business falters, Joe fears his … |
| Director | Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themse… | ||
| Director | Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father’s ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick…. | ||
| Director | The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to inv… | ||
| Director | A live-action children’s television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales…. | ||
| Director | Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama… | ||
| Director | The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The … | ||
| Director | In this world power isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. Best selling author of Mario ‘The Godfather’ Puzo’s blockbuster new novel comes to life in … | ||
| Director | As the elder don dies, his young heir moves into the position. He quickly proves to be as ruthless as he tries to discover who has launched a plot to … | ||
Graeme Clifford Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Burke & Wills | Producer | 1985-10-30 | A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century…. |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Casting | 1971-06-24 | A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives o… |
| Profoundly Normal | Producer | 2003-02-09 | Donna Lee Shelby, a mentally challenged girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton, a fel… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Music Editor | 1975-08-14 | This low-budget freak show/cult-classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss inside a strange mansion that t… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Don’t Look Now | Editor | 1973-12-03 | Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of who… |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Editor | 1976-03-18 | Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his … |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Editor | 1981-03-20 | The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband…. |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Editor | 1975-08-14 | This low-budget freak show/cult-classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss inside a strange mansion that t… |
| Images | Editor | 1972-12-18 | Cathryn is suffering from schizophrenia and is haunted by hallucinations of apparitions. Her husband has his mind on other things, while her mental st… |
| F.I.S.T. | Editor | 1978-04-26 | Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher … |
| The Avengers: The Cybernauts Trilogy | Editor | CYBERNAUT… the most efficient of killers, the brainchild of electronics genius Clement Armstrong (Michael Gough) and defeated (so it seemed at the t… | |
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