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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Fast Charlie
2023
Director
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
2022
as Self
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
2021
Director
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
2021
Executive Producer
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
2021
as Self
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
2019
Director
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

The Giver
2014
Director
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
2013
Director
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
2012
Director
A legendary fashion designer - his life, his job and his family.

Salt
2010
Director
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
2008
as Self
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
2006
Director
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
2004
Director
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
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
2002
Director
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
2002
as Self
An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
Director, Producer
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
1999
Director
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
A former member of a covert government agency turns the table on his pursuers and former colleagues.

The Saint
1997
Director
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
1994
Director
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Sliver
1993
Director
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
1992
Director
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Blind Fury
1989
Director
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Dead Calm
1989
Director
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
1988
Director
The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

Vietnam
1987
Story
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.

The Cowra Breakout
1984
Director
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
1984
as Mann in der Fähre
Hamburg student Gabriele constantly dreams of her boyfriend in Australia. The reality is different, because while she sits in lecture halls during the...

Heatwave
1982
Screenplay, Director
During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of ...

Newsfront
1978
Director, Screenplay
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
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
1977
Director, Producer, Writer
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
1975
Assistant Director
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
1974
Director
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
1974
as Himself
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
1974
Editor, Director, Director of Photography
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
1973
Assistant Director
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
1973
Director
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
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
1973
Director of Photography, Director
"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
1971
Director
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
"The beautiful pulsating winter sun discovered by a single frame camera." - Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film.
Memories
1971
Director
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
A single frame camera exploration of the home, inside and out, including its inhabitants and pets.
Intersection
1971
Director
"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
'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
N/A
Director
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
N/A
Director
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
A special ops veteran struggles with the possibility that he may be to blame for the decimation of his entire team.

First Warrior
N/A
Writer
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
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...