Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce

1950-04-29 Griffith, New South Wales, Australia 53 Credits

Biography

Phillip Roger Noyce AO (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama (Newsfront, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Quiet American); thrillers (Dead Calm, Sliver, The Bone Collector); and action films (Blind Fury, The Saint, Salt). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), as well as the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver...

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Fast Charlie

Fast Charlie

2023

Director

6.2
Directing

When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

Senses of Cinema

Senses of Cinema

2022

as Self

Acting

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to...

The Desperate Hour

The Desperate Hour

2021

Director

6.0
Directing

A woman desperately races to save her child after police place her hometown on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.

Show Me What You Got

Show Me What You Got

2021

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

Follows three young millennials as they form a wholehearted ménage à trois, each of them going through a moment of transition: Fun-loving Marcello fro...

John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows

John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows

2021

as Self

6.0
Acting

John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood’s most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers, J...

Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion

2019

Director

5.9
Directing

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affa...

Gone Baby Gone

2018

Director

Directing
The Giver

The Giver

2014

Director

6.6
Directing

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the tr...

Mary and Martha

Mary and Martha

2013

Director

6.4
Directing

Wealthy American housewife Mary Morgan takes her bullied son George out of school for home education,including a trip to Southern Africa. Whilst in Mo...

Americana

Americana

2012

Director

1.2
Directing

A legendary fashion designer - his life, his job and his family.

Salt

Salt

2010

Director

6.4
Directing

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russ...

Critic

Critic

2008

as Self

7.9
Acting

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 20...

Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire

2006

Director

6.3
Directing

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest...

Welcome to São Paulo

Welcome to São Paulo

2004

Director

5.6
Directing

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the ...

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

2003

as Himself - Director

8.0
Acting

This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof Fence. The film sees a cast of ...

The Quiet American

The Quiet American

2002

Director

6.5
Directing

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...

Gulpilil: One Red Blood

Gulpilil: One Red Blood

2002

as Self

6.6
Acting

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector

1999

Director

6.8
Directing

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and ...

The Repair Shop

1998

Director

Directing

A former member of a covert government agency turns the table on his pursuers and former colleagues.

The Saint

The Saint

1997

Director

6.1
Directing

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

1994

Director

6.7
Directing

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Sliver

Sliver

1993

Director

5.5
Directing

A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.

Patriot Games

Patriot Games

1992

Director

6.7
Directing

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Blind Fury

Blind Fury

1989

Director

6.5
Directing

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Dead Calm

Dead Calm

1989

Director

6.6
Directing

An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking s...

Shadows of the Peacock

Shadows of the Peacock

1988

Director

3.5
Directing

The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

Vietnam

Vietnam

1987

Story

8.0
Writing

The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.

The Cowra Breakout

The Cowra Breakout

1984

Director

4.5
Directing

In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 23...

Tausend Augen

Tausend Augen

1984

as Mann in der Fähre

5.0
Acting

Hamburg student Gabriele constantly dreams of her boyfriend in Australia. The reality is different, because while she sits in lecture halls during the...

Heatwave

Heatwave

1982

Screenplay, Director

5.2
Writing Directing

During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of ...

Newsfront

Newsfront

1978

Director, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Writing

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing tim...

Tapak Dewata - Path of the Gods: Java and Bali

1978

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

A 1979 documentary on Java and Bali, written and directed by Phillip Noyce. The end credits say this film was produced for QANTAS Airways, which sugge...

Backroads

Backroads

1977

Director, Producer, Writer

5.9
Directing Producing Writing

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. ...

The Golden Cage

The Golden Cage

1975

Assistant Director

Directing

Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu), an older Turkish migrant in Australia, works hard to achieve his dream of buying a truck, and of returning a rich man to Turke...

Castor and Pollux

Castor and Pollux

1974

Director

5.0
Directing

Two brothers from two very different lifestyles, one is a hippy the other a bikie, are examined in this short film. They share a common attitude thoug...

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973

1974

as Himself

Acting

A fragmented film, largely following street performer George Shevtsov at the 1970 Vietnam Moratorium, the Odyssey Pop Festival at Wallacia in 1971, an...

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973

1974

Editor, Director, Director of Photography

Directing

A fragmented film, largely following street performer George Shevtsov at the 1970 Vietnam Moratorium, the Odyssey Pop Festival at Wallacia in 1971, an...

One Hundred a Day

One Hundred a Day

1973

Assistant Director

Directing

A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short ...

Caravan Park

Caravan Park

1973

Director

Directing

When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough m...

That's Showbiz!

1973

Director

Directing

A failing and ageing vaudeville pageant decide to hire a nefarious strip-tease act from Sydney. The stripper (Gretel Pinninger) enlivens the small but...

Finks Make Movies

Finks Make Movies

1973

Director of Photography, Director

Directing

"The infamous Finks bikie gang caught off-guard as they shoot their latest 8mm movie epic: the story of a bikie and hillbilly showdown. " - Filmmakers...

Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

1971

Director

Directing

The film is a unique dual-screen documentary of the Aquarius Arts Festival of 1971, an 8-day "happening" at the Australian National University, which ...

Sun

1971

Director

10.0
Directing

"The beautiful pulsating winter sun discovered by a single frame camera." - Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film.

Memories

1971

Director

Directing

Flames in a fireplace and smoke in the bush outside evoke memories in us all. Noyce intended the film to be screened with a "smell track" of burning e...

Home

1971

Director

7.0
Directing

A single frame camera exploration of the home, inside and out, including its inhabitants and pets.

Intersection

1971

Director

Directing

"An exploration of a specific area of space and time. The space: 360 degrees of action at a traffic intersection, and the time: the period of waiting ...

Better to Reign in Hell

1969

Director

Directing

'A youth is persecuted by the haunting reappearance of a girl's image in various commercial outlets. He finds escape from this commercial brainwashing...

Killer 10

Killer 10

N/A

Director

Directing

A group of expat criminals are coerced into a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a game-changing chemical weapon developed by the Nazis and...

Cowboy Bob

Cowboy Bob

N/A

Director

Directing

In the early 1990s, Peggy Jo Tallas began a spate of bank robberies throughout Texas. She committed the crimes dressed as a man and the FBI had no ide...

Alive Day

N/A

Director

Directing

A special ops veteran struggles with the possibility that he may be to blame for the decimation of his entire team.

First Warrior

First Warrior

N/A

Writer

Writing

Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year re...

Ally Clark

N/A

Director

Directing

The marble halls of Washington, D.C. to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following investigator Ally Clark as she embar...