Gillian ArmstrongFilmography

Born:: December 18, 1950 in Melbourne, Australia
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: A technical theatre student at Swinburne College, Gillian Armstrong studied filmmaking at the Melbourne and Australian Film and Television School, paying her tuition by working as a waitress. She functioned in several secondary technical capacities in the Australian film industry, then she made...Read More

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Death Defying Acts

Crew: Director

Actors: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan, Malcolm Shields

Synopsis: My Brilliant Career and Oscar and Lucinda director Gillian Armstrong explores the final feat of the greatest illusionist ever to deceive a live audience in this docudrama concerning Harry Houdini's obsessive quest to find proof of an afterlife. The year is 1926, and Houdini (Guy Pearce) is an Read More

7/11/08
Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst

Crew: Director

Actors: Judi Farr, Felicity Price, Hannah Garbo, Robert Lloyd-Lewis, Phyllis Nicholson

Synopsis: Florence Broadhurst was best known as a leading Australian interior designer who turned a small business into one of the nation's largest wallpaper companies. However, Broadhurst's past was something of a mystery to many people, and not without reason -- she was a woman with a gift for assuming Read More

2006
Charlotte Gray

Crew: Director

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set in Europe during World War II, stars Cate Blanchett as Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte falls in love with Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), a handsome RAF pilot, and the two are soon caught up in a torrid Read More

12/28/01
Oscar and Lucinda

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh

Synopsis: Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins' great grandson (Geoffrey Rush) narrates the family history that led to his birth. On an Australian farm, Lucinda Leplastrier was Read More

1997
Not Fourteen Again

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In 1976, Australian filmmaker Gillian Armstrong made Smokes and Lollies, a documentary profiling the lives, thoughts and feelings of three rambunctious, rebellious working class 14-year-old girls. Four years later, Armstrong returned to the girls' hometown, Adelaide, and made another documentary Read More

1996
Little Women

Crew: Director

Actors: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Eric Stoltz, John Neville

Synopsis: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father leaves for battle as part of the Union Army. At Read More

1994
The Last Days of Chez Nous

Crew: Director

Actors: Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Kerry Fox, Miranda Otto, Kiri Paramore

Synopsis: Gillian Armstrong directed this quietly bittersweet and coldly ironic examination of the death throes of a crumbling marriage. Set in the lush summer light of Sydney, the film examines the dying marriage of Beth (Lisa Harrow), a middle-aged writer living with her French husband J.P. (Bruno Ganz) Read More

1992
Fires Within

Crew: Director

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jimmy Smits, Vincent D'Onofrio, Luis Avalos

Synopsis: A Cuban woman who escapes to America finds herself in political, financial, and romantic jeopardy in this taut drama. Cuban refugee Isabel (Greta Scacchi) flees her country and makes her way to Miami after her husband, Nestor (Jimmy Smits), a political activist, is sentenced to a long stay in a Read More

6/28/91
Bingo, Bridesmaids And Braces

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Though she has made quite a name for herself with theatrical films like My Brilliant Career, Australian director Gillian Anderson got her start making a documentary about three girls growing up in Adelaide. The first one followed them when they were fourteen, and it's titled Smokes and Lollies. Read More

1988
High Tide

Crew: Director

Actors: Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels, Frankie J. Holden, John Clayton

Synopsis: Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie Read More

1987
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Crew: Director

Actors: Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Synopsis: Concert footage of both Dylan and Petty directed by Gillian Armstrong. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Mrs. Soffel

Crew: Director

Actors: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates, despite her fragile health. While making her Read More

1984
Starstruck

Crew: Director

Actors: Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan, Pat Evison, Margo Lee, Max Cullen

Synopsis: Star Struck is a light, frothy pop-culture musical comedy from Australia, where Jackie (Jo Kennedy) dreams of becoming a singing star and her cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) thinks he has what it takes to be a successful manager. After a spot at the hip club in town (wearing a kangaroo suit) fails Read More

1982
My Brilliant Career

Crew: Director

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Patricia Kennedy

Synopsis: Both actress Judy Davis and director Gillian Armstrong made a big splash on the international scene with this charming Australian film that examines late 19th century Australian society from the perspective of a headstrong woman who refuses to follow convention. The film charts the developing Read More

1979
The Singer and the Dancer

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ruth Cracknell, Elizabeth Crosby, Jude Kuring, Russell Kiefel, Gerry Duggan

Synopsis: In this drama, an aging dancer observes the life of a star-struck younger woman. The older one sees herself in the girl and tries to help her avoid making the same mistakes. Unfortunately, the headstrong young woman refuses to listen and like the elder, finds herself entangled in a destructive Read More

1977