Anthony Buckley Explained

Anthony Buckley
Honorific Suffix:	AO
Birth Date:	27 July 1937
Occupation:	Film producer, editor
Years Active:	1958–2019

Anthony Buckley AO (born 27 July 1937) is an Australian film producer and editor.

Career

On leaving school, Buckley went to work for Cinesound Productions as a projectionist and assistant editor. He worked in Canada and Britain before returning to Australia in 1965. He went to work at Ajax Films and moved into producing.^[1]

He edited Michael Powell's Age of Consent.^[2]

In 1974 he produced the train film A Steam Train Passes.^[3] 24 years later he produced another two train films, Savannahlander and Gulflander. He produced the mini-series The Harp in the South and its sequel Poor Man's Orange.^[4]

Honours and awards

• 1977 Order of Australia^[5]
• Raymond Longford Award Lifetime Achievement Award
• Ken G. Hall Award

Partial filmography

As editor

• The Stowaway (1958) (assistant)
• Age of Consent (1969)
• Adam's Woman (1970)
• Wake in Fright (1971)
• Don Quixote (1973)

As producer

• Forgotten Cinema (1967) – documentary
• Snow, Sand and Savages
• Caddie (1976)
• A Steam Train Passes (1974)
• The Night the Prowler (1978)
• The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
• Bliss (1985)
• The Harp in the South (1986)
• Poor Man's Orange (1987)
• The Heroes (1989) – mini-series
• Roads Without Wheels. 1989. Landmark Media. Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific. ^[6]
• More Winners – Mr Edmond (1990)
• (1991) – mini-series
• Nazi Supergrass (1993)
• Bedevil (1993)
• The Celluloid Heroes (1995) - documentary series
• Yum Cha Cha (2001)
• Oyster Farmer (2004)
• Savannahlander (2008)
• Gulflander (2010)
• At the Coliseum Deluxe (2019)

External links

• • Anthony Buckley's films at the National Film and Sound Archive

Notes and References

1. David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p11
2. Web site: Age of Consent (1969). https://web.archive.org/web/20160309125625/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a524b0c/. dead. 9 March 2016. BFI.
3. Web site: A Steam Train Passes (1975). https://web.archive.org/web/20200925195732/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b77236e14. dead. 25 September 2020. BFI.
4. Web site: Anthony Buckley. https://web.archive.org/web/20171229222113/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba051de6e. dead. 29 December 2017. BFI.
5. Web site: Anthony Buckley AM – Australian Screen Editors. www.screeneditors.com.au. 2 March 2006 .
6. Roads Without Wheels. 1989. DVD. Landmark Media. Robert Raymond (Director). Alan Thorne (Narrator). Anthony Buckley (Producer). Falls Church, VA. 664751633. Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific.