T.O. McCreadie
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Tom McCreadie better known as T.O. McCreadie was an Australia
n film director
and producer, who was also involved in distribution and exhibition for many years. He and his brother Alec formed Embassy Pictures in 1940 and made several shorts before producing three feature films in the 1940s. He gave early starring roles to Charles Tingwell
and Guy Doleman
.
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 director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and producer, who was also involved in distribution and exhibition for many years. He and his brother Alec formed Embassy Pictures in 1940 and made several shorts before producing three feature films in the 1940s. He gave early starring roles to Charles Tingwell
Charles Tingwell
In 1941, aged 18, he volunteered for war service overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, personnel from Commonwealth air forces were part of a joint training and assignment system. Consequently, Tingwell trained as a pilot in Canada during 1942...
and Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman was a New Zealand actor.He is perhaps best known for his role as "Count Lippe" in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, and as "Colonel Ross" in the three film adaptations of Len Deighton's "Harry Palmer" novels, starring Michael Caine, in the 1960s...
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Filmography
- Always Another DawnAlways Another DawnAlways Another Dawn is a 1948 Australian wartime melodrama directed by T.O. McCreadie. It was the first leading role for Charles Tingwell. The film was made with the co-operation of the Royal Australian Navy, with filming taking place at Flinders Naval Depot and aboard the destroyer .-Cast:*Charles...
(1948) - director, producer, co-writer - Into the StraightInto the StraightInto the Straight is a 1949 Australian horse racing melodrama directed by T.O. McCreadie. The plot concerns the Curzons, an Australian horseracing family visited by an English horse trainer and his son...
(1949) - director, producer - The Kangaroo KidThe Kangaroo Kid (1950 film)The Kangaroo Kid is a 1950 Cinema of Australian-British western film directed by Lesley Selander about an American detective who is sent to Australia to investigate a corrupt lawyer . The film was shot on location in Australia at Sofala and Sydney, using an American director and lead actors...
(1950) - producer
External links
- T.O. McCreadie at National Film and Sound ArchiveNational Film and Sound ArchiveThe National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...