Geoff Burrowes

Geoff Burrowes (born 1945) is an Australian filmmaker best known for the movie The Man from Snowy River (1982) and the TV mini-series Anzacs (1985); he was a founding partner of the Burrowes Film Group.[1]

Biography

Burrowes was a journalist who graduated from Monash University in 1970 and worked at Crawford Productions for four years. He spent a year as private secretary to Moss Cass and then worked in advertising with Philip Adams for three years.[2]

Burrowes decided to make a feature film which resulted in the $2.6 million Man from Snowy River (1982). This was a huge success at the box office and enabled Burrowes to expand his operations with the Burrowes Film Group. The most successful of these was the mini series Anzacs and a sequel to Snowy River. However feature films Cool Change, Running from the Guns and Ground Zero did less well.

Burrowes went to Hollywood and directed a film there, Run. Burrowes disliked the experience.[3]

He has since retired from filmmaking.[4]

Select Credits

References
  1. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p64
  2. "The saga of the man from Merrijig". The Age. 12 April 1986. p. Extra 7.
  3. "Our man in LA". The Age. 21 October 1990. p. 25.
  4. Jason Dowling, 'Like the colt of old Regret, a minister bolts', The Age, 27 January 2008 accessed 9 Oct 2012


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