Donald Crombie is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n film and television director. Crombie studied at National Institute of Dramatic Art

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

 in 1961 and started work at the Commonwealth Film Unit in 1963. Crombie has directed feature films, telemovies, mini-series, drama series, documentaries and commercials. He has written film and TV scripts. Crombie has been a Board member of the AWG, ASDACS and ASDA and the President of ASDA for over 5 years.

Feature films directed

• Caddie
  Caddie (film)
  Caddie is an Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie, released in 1976, and belonging to the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade....
  
  (1976)
• The Irishman
  The Irishman
  The Irishman is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Elizabeth O'Conner.The novel deals with the experiences of Paddy Doolan, an Irish teamster, and his sons in the Gulf Country in the north of Australia.-Film Adaptation:...
  
  (1978) (also writer)
• Cathy's Child
  Cathy's Child
  Cathy's Child is a 1979 Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie and starring Michele Fawdon, Alan Cassell and Bryan Brown.-Plot:Cathy Baikas is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When her daughter's father kidnaps the child and takes her...
  
  (1979)
• The Killing of Angel Street
  The Killing of Angel Street
  The Killing of Angel Street is a 1981 Australian thriller film based on the real life disappearance of Juanita Nielson, an activist against mass development in Sydney in the late 1970s....
  
  (1981)
• Kitty and the Bagman (1983)
• Playing Beatie Bow
  Playing Beatie Bow (film)
  Playing Beatie Bow is a 1986 Australian drama film directed by Donald Crombie. The screenplay by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane is based on the novel by Ruth Park.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1986)
• Rough Diamonds (1994) (also writer)
• Selkie (2000)

Television

• Do I Have to Kill My Child? (1976) (TV) (also writer)
• "Cyclone Tracy" (1986) TV mini-series
• The Heroes (1988) (TV)
• The Alien Years
  The Alien Years
  The Alien Years is a three-part miniseries that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on April 19 1988. It was directed by Donald Crombie and written by Peter Yeldham. It stars Victoria Longley, John Hargreaves and Academy Award-winner, Christoph Waltz...
  
  (1988) (TV)
• The Saint: Fear in Fun Park (1989) (TV)
• "The River Kings" (1991) TV mini-series
• Heroes II: The Return (1991) (TV)
• The Feds: Terror (1993) (TV)
• "Time Trax
  Time Trax
  Time Trax was an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future...
  
  " (1993-1994)
• "Flipper" (1995-1997)
• "Tales of the South Seas" (1998) TV series
• "McLeod's Daughters
  McLeod's Daughters
  McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...
  
  " (2001-2002)

Other

• Aircraft at Work (1966) (documentary) (also writer)
• Is Anybody Doing Anything About It? (1967) (short) (also writer)
• Sailor (1968) (documentary)
• Top End (1968) (documentary)
• Our Land Australia (1972) (documentary) (also producer, co-writer)
• Who Killed Jenny Langby? (1974) (documentary) (also co-writer)
• Robbery Under Arms
  Robbery Under Arms
  Robbery Under Arms is a classic Australian novel by Rolf Boldrewood . It was first published in serialised form by The Sydney Mail between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in London in 1888...
  
  (1985) (cinema and a television mini-series release)