Frank Coffey

Frank Coffey was an Australian author, cameraman, director, and screenwriter who worked mostly on the production of documentaries. For a number of years, he was in-house writer for Cinesound Productions.

Coffey worked in the camera department of Cinesound in the early 1930s. In 1935 he joined Charles Chauvel as assistant cameraman on Uncivilised.^[1]

In the late 1940s, he was charge of documentary productions for Movietone.^[2]

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The Hayseeds (1933) – editor
Grandad Rudd (1934) – camera department
Strike Me Lucky (1934) – camera department
When the Kellys Rode (1934) – camera department
Uncivilised (1936) – assistant director
Rangle River (1936) – editor
A Nation is Built (1938) – editor^[3]
Gone to the Dogs (1939) – story editor^[4]
That Certain Something (1941) – camera, editor
Will There Be a Second Front in Europe? (1942) – editor
100,000 Cobbers (1943) – writer, editor
Jungle Patrol (1944) – editor
film about Newcastle (1947) – director, writer^[5]
Isle of Bounty (1949) – camera

References

^ "Australian Film". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 505. New South Wales, Australia. 10 October 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "It Was Only A Seven-Minute Film". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. National Library of Australia. 15 March 1947. p. 5. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "AT THE MONTREAL". The Tumut and Adelong Times. NSW: National Library of Australia. 27 May 1941. p. 1. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "George Wallace Has "Gone". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 17 August 1939. p. 8 Section: Second Section. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "It Was Only A Seven—Minute Film". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 21, 980. New South Wales, Australia. 15 March 1947. p. 5. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

[1] "Australian Film". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 505. New South Wales, Australia. 10 October 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.

[2] "It Was Only A Seven-Minute Film". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. National Library of Australia. 15 March 1947. p. 5. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[3] "AT THE MONTREAL". The Tumut and Adelong Times. NSW: National Library of Australia. 27 May 1941. p. 1. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[4] "George Wallace Has "Gone". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 17 August 1939. p. 8 Section: Second Section. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[5] "It Was Only A Seven—Minute Film". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 21, 980. New South Wales, Australia. 15 March 1947. p. 5. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.

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