Phillip Noyce Filmography

Born:: April 29, 1950 in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Australian Phillip Noyce was "movie crazy" from an early age, experimenting with a camera as a teen and producing an independent short, Better to Reign in Hell, before graduating from high school. He entered the University of Sydney's law school, quit to play amateur rugby, then re-enrolled in the...Read More

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Above Suspicion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An FBI agent draws fire after being convicted of murdering an informant whom he had an affair with in this straight from the headlines crime thriller directed by Phillip Noyce from a script by Chris Gerolmo. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Edwin A. Salt

Crew: Director

Actors: Angelina Jolie

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie stars as a CIA operative on the run in the spy thriller Edwin A. Salt, a Columbia Pictures production from writer Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium). Actor/director Phillip Noyce helms the picture, which focuses on the plight of a government agent who's been wrongly accused of being a Read More

1/1/09
Mary, Queen of Scots

Crew: Director

Actors: Scarlett Johansson

Synopsis: The eventful life of ill-fated Catholic monarch Mary, Queen of Scots is detailed in this lavish biopic directed by John J. Curran and starring Scarlett Johansson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Dirt Music

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Colin Farrell

Synopsis: A woman isolated in the harsh terrain of Australia's Northern Territories (Rachel Weisz) finds her withering passion for life unexpectedly rekindled by the arrival of a mysterious drifter (Colin Farrell) as author Tim Winton's acclaimed novel comes to the screen under the direction of Phillip Read More

2008
Catch a Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho K. Masha

Synopsis: An apolitical South African oil-refinery worker and soccer coach is forced into terrorism as a means of fighting back against the brutality of the apartheid regime in director Phillip Noyce's dramatic look at the life of one-time political prisoner and freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso. In the Read More

10/27/06
Brotherhood [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

2006
Brotherhood: Mark 8:36

Crew: Director

2006
Tru Calling [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The weekly, 60-minute Fox series Tru Calling was the strange saga of medical graduate student Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku). When her grant money was abruptly terminated, Tru was forced to make ends meet with a night-shift job at a Boston morgue. It was there that our heroine discovered her ability to Read More

2003
Gulpilil: One Red Blood

Actors: David Gulpilil, Phillip Noyce, Jack Thompson, Ronnie Barramola, Justine Saunders

Synopsis: Legendary Aboriginal actor and Australian icon David Gulpilil's life has been one of dueling lifestyles, with his jet-setting movie star life on a completely different plane from his life as an Aboriginal village elder, and director Darlene Johnson manages to capture intimate details from both Read More

2003
Tru Calling: Pilot

Crew: Director

2003
Rabbit-Proof Fence

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When European settlers first arrived in Australia Read More

11/29/02
The Quiet American

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija

Synopsis: Graham Greene's allegorical novel about America's role in the Vietnam conflict, and how it was perceived by the rest of the world, is brought to the screen for the second time in this adaptation directed by Phillip Noyce. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) is a British journalist who in 1952 is Read More

11/22/02
Camera

Synopsis: Follow the adventures of a stolen video camera as it constantly changes hands in filmmaker Richard Martini's unhinged entry into the Dogme movement. From landing in the hands of tourists, celebrity stalkers, and even a fearless sky diver, the well-traveled camcorder continues to turn-up in Read More

2000
The Bone Collector

Crew: Director

Actors: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Montreal and New York, The Bone Collector is a suspense thriller that combines Rear Window and Seven. Two cops on the trail of a brutal serial killer must see as one, act as one, and think as one before the next victim falls. Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is an Read More

11/5/99
The Saint

Crew: Director

Actors: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valery Nikolaev, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from director Phillip Noyce mixed romance and character development with dangerous stunts, geopolitical intrigue, and a variety of elaborate disguises, resulting in an uneven stew of a spy Read More

4/4/97
Clear and Present Danger

Crew: Director

Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Read More

1994
Sliver

Crew: Director

Actors: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Phillip Noyce directed Joe Eszterhas's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about voyeurism, starring Sharon Stone as Carly Norris, a book editor on the rebound from an emotionless seven-year marriage. Carly decides that a change of location will help her in the healing process, so she moves into a Read More

1993
Patriot Games

Crew: Director

Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch

Synopsis: In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean Read More

6/5/92
Blind Fury

Crew: Director

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer plays a blinded Vietnam vet who also happens to be an expert swordsman. Twenty years after the war, Hauer finds himself waist-deep in gangsters when he tries to help the son (Brandon Call) of an old army buddy. Along the way, he reforms an ex-comrade in arms (Terrance O'Quinn) who was Read More

3/16/90
Dead Calm

Crew: Director

Actors: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane

Synopsis: Grieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they rescue a young man from a drifting vessel. The couple soon discover that the other ship's crew had been brutally murdered by their Read More

4/7/89
Echoes of Paradise

Crew: Director

Actors: Wendy Hughes, John Lone, Steve Jacobs, Peta Toppano, Rod Mullinar

Synopsis: Maria McEvoy (Wendy Hughes) deals with the death of her beloved father and discovers her attorney husband George (Steven Jacobs) is a philandering louse in this romantic drama. At the suggestion of a friend, Maria takes a vacation in Thailand, where she falls for Raka (John Lone), an exiled dancer Read More

1986
Promises to Keep

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Claire Bloom, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: In this family drama, the life of a woman and her son are severely disrupted when her estranged husband, who abandoned them thirty years before, returns. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
The Cowra Breakout

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1985
The Dismissal

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1983
The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

1983
Heatwave

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Gregg

Synopsis: Heatwave is the mildly interesting story of a woman's attempt to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity. Kate (Judy Davis), through her own efforts, manages to find some evidence to support her claims and also have a romance. Davis gives Read More

1982
In Search of Historic Jesus

Crew: Director

Actors: John Rubinstein, John Anderson, Nehemiah Persoff, Brad Crandall, Andrew Bloch

Synopsis: This documentary presents biblical and non-biblical information about the birth of Christianity, and the mystery behind Jesus Christ. The four different versions of the gospels are recreated in dramatizations of Jesus' birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension. The video also investigates Read More

1979
Newsfront

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Angela Punch, Don Crosby, Bryan Brown, John Clayton, Lorna Lesley, John Dease

Synopsis: Set between the years 1949 and 1956, Newsfront tracks the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures placed in the context of sweeping social and political changes in their native Australia. Both of the protagonists are newsreel photographers. Frank (Gerard Maguire) is Read More

1978
Backroads

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Hunter, Gary Foley, Julie McGregor, Terry Camilleri

Synopsis: Prominent Australian Aboriginal activist Gary Foley plays a leading role in Backroads. Foley is cast as an Aborigine who links up with boorish, racist Bill Hunter. A wanted criminal, Hunter drags Foley down to his level. Disaster results, with the Aborigine bearing the brunt of the worst life has Read More

1977