Frank Coffey Explained

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]

Select credits

• 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

External links

• Frank Coffey at National Film and Sound Archive
• Frank Coffey at IMDB

Notes and References

1. News: Australian Film . . 30,505 . New South Wales, Australia . 10 October 1935 . 24 January 2024 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: It Was Only A Seven-Minute Film. . . 15 March 1947 . 9 April 2015 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
3. News: AT THE MONTREAL. . . NSW . 27 May 1941 . 9 April 2015 . 1 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: George Wallace Has "Gone. . . Brisbane . 17 August 1939 . 9 April 2015 . 8 Section: Second Section. . National Library of Australia.
5. News: It Was Only A Seven—Minute Film . . 21,980 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 March 1947 . 24 January 2024 . 5 . National Library of Australia.