Biography
Simon Wincer (born 1943 in Sydney) is an Australian film director and film producer. He attended Cranbrook School, Bellevue Hill, Sydney from 1950 to 1961. On leaving school he worked as a stage hand at TV Station Channel 7. By the 1980s he directed over 200 hours of television. In 1986 he directed the made for TV movie The Last Frontier and also won a Christopher Award. His most successful film to date is the 1993 film Free Willy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Wincer, lic...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Cup
2011
Writer, Director, Producer
At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the ...

Not Quite Hollywood
2008
as Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...

Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix
2006
as Self

Young Black Stallion
2003
Director
When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and t...

Monte Walsh
2003
Director
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their live...

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
2001
Director
After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a lo...

Crossfire Trail
2001
Director
Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch....

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
Director
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palac...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
1999
Director
On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain dea...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999
Director
As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme. Almost succumbin...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
1999
Director
Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady...

P.T. Barnum
1999
Director
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman ...

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
1998
Director
A small-town cat-and-dog detective duo investigate a new neighbor who they believe may have committed a murder, but the snag is, locals are attempting...

The Echo of Thunder
1998
Director
Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl's adjustment to a new fa...

Escape: Human Cargo
1998
Director
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due t...

Flash
1997
Director
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the famil...

The Phantom
1996
Director
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls tha...
The Phantom: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
1996
as Self
HBO First Look's episode on The Phantom

Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
Director
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through...

Lightning Jack
1994
Director, Producer
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become go...

Free Willy
1993
Director
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy...

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Director
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on t...

Quigley Down Under
1990
Director
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley find...

Bluegrass
1988
Director
A woman tries to be successful in the male-dominated horse racing business. Intrigue, greed, power games and love trying to put stones in her way.

The Lighthorsemen
1987
Director
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment...
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
1986
Director
A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.

D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Director
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot wit...

One Night Stand
1984
Executive Producer
In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figur...

Phar Lap
1983
Director
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the ...

The Man from Snowy River
1982
Executive Producer
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to...

Harlequin
1980
Director
Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the b...

Snapshot
1979
Director
A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
1976
Director
Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilities, which haunt him as he has recurrent visions o...