Simon Wincer Filmography

The Holy Road

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lonesome Dove's Simon Wincer directs the follow-up to Dances With Wolves with this adaptation of Michael Blake's novel, concerning the same Comanche Native American tribe as they cope with the Transcontinental Railroad and the growing encroachment of white colonists. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

Comanche Moon

Crew: Director

Actors: Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Linda Cardellini, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban, Elizabeth Banks

Synopsis: The Lonesome Dove saga continues in this prequel starring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Linda Cardellini, and Rachel Griffiths. Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Agustus McCrae may be getting up there in years, but their determination to capture Comanche war chief Buffalo Hunt, Comanche horse thief Kicking Read More

Into the West: Mainfest Destiny

Crew: Director

NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience

Crew: Director

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Simon Wincer directs the 40-minute film NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience. It includes interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, plenty of high-speed racing action, and multiple points-of-view created by remote control-operated IMAX 3D cameras mounted to the outside of race cars, as well as the Read More

The Young Black Stallion

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Romanus, Biana G. Tamimi, Patrick Elyas, Gerard Rudolf, Ali Al Ameri

Synopsis: Based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Steven Farley, son of Walter Farley, writer of the original The Black Stallion, The Young Black Stallion is a prequel to the 1979 Academy Award-winning classic starring Mickey Rooney. Directed by Simon Wincer, the film is set during the second World War Read More

Monte Walsh

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Schaefer (writer of Shane), and previously filmed theatrically in 1970, the made-for-cable Monte Walsh is the still-timely saga of a dying way of life. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck) and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of Read More

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Jere Burns, Jonathan Banks, Serge Cockburn

Synopsis: Director Simon Wincer teams up with his fellow Australian and star Paul Hogan for this second follow-up to the 1986 sleeper hit. Mick Dundee (Hogan) is still making his home in the tiny outback town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other Sue (Linda Kozlowski), and now joined by their young Read More

The Ponderosa [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Hugh Kelly, Drew Powell, Matt Carmody, Jared Daperis, Fernando Carrillo

Crossfire Trail

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Director

Actors: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, Brad Johnson, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Tom Selleck plays the drifter Rafe Covington in this respectful adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel Crossfire Trail, presented by Turner Network Television. A romantic Western, Crossfire Trail follows Rafe as he struggles to honor his vow to a dying friend to protect his wife and daughter and Read More

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Crew: Director

Actors: Ricki Lake, Blythe Danner, Anthony Clark, Linden Ashby, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: An amateur sleuth gets some help from her pets in this family-oriented mystery. Mary Haristeen (Ricki Lake), known to her friends as Harry, is the Post Mistress in a small Southern town; when she's not reading mystery novels, she tends to her cat, Mrs. Murphy (voice of Blythe Danner), and her dog Read More

P.T. Barnum

Crew: Director

Actors: Beau Bridges, Cynthia Dale, Jordan Bridges

Synopsis: Previously portrayed on stage and screen by the likes of Wallace Beery, Burt Lancaster and Jim Dale, colorful 19th century American showman Phineas T. Barnum lives again in the person of Beau Bridges) in this two-part, made-for-cable biopic. The film covers Barnum's career from his early Read More

The Echo of Thunder

Crew: Director

Actors: Judy Davis, Jamey Sheridan, Lauren Hewett, Ernie Dingo, Emily Browning

Synopsis: When her husband's adolescent daughter arrives to live with them, an Australian farmer's wife is less than pleased. Her reaction creates considerable domestic disharmony. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Flash

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucas Black, Ellen Burstyn, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: Lucas Black and Ellen Burstyn star in this made-for-TV movie from Disney, in which a poor boy dreams of owning a horse named Flash. The boy's father can't afford to buy the animal and it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous trainer, much to the boy's sorrow. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Human Cargo

Crew: Director

Actors: Treat Williams, Stephen Lang, Larry Dane, Sasson Gabai, Ze'ev Revach

Synopsis: This taut made-for-television adventure is based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia. His dishonest clients exploit this fact and do all they can to hold him captive in their country, thereby forcing the American to take desperate Read More

The Phantom

Crew: Director

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar

Synopsis: The first superhero ever, created by Lee Falk in 1936, gets another shot at movie stardom 60 years after achieving fame in comics and serials. Billy Zane stars as Kit Walker, who discovers that he's the 21st in a line of purple-clad African superheroes known as "The Phantom" or, to superstitious Read More

Operation Dumbo Drop

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: This old fashioned service comedy is suitable for the whole family. It is set in Vietnam during the war and chronicles the efforts of a small band of Green Berets as they endeavor to help out a beleaguered village located next to a major supply route for the Viet Cong. The leader, Capt. Sam Cahill Read More

Lightning Jack

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Beverly D'Angelo, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: In this humorous Western, Aussie Paul Hogan plays a cowboy running from the law. Lightning Jack Kane is a member of the notorious Younger Brother gang. He is the only member to survive their last shoot-out. Fortunately, he was only a minor member of the gang and escapes notice. Jack decides to rob Read More

Free Willy

Crew: Director

Actors: Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, Jayne Atkinson, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson star in this buddy-buddy futuristic action movie. Rourke is Harley Davidson, a biker with the Halloween-costume garb of a leather jacket, short haircut, earring, and a scar. Johnson joins Rourke in the trick-or-treating as Marlboro, an ex-rodeo rider wearing a cowboy Read More

Quigley Down Under

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as American cowboy archetype Matthew Quigley in Simon Wincer's outback western Quigley Down Under. Answering an advertisement placed by Australian cattle baron Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman) to come to the rugged and uncivilized Australian countryside and shoot dingoes, Quigley Read More

Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This documentary is about the making of the immensely popular television series Lonesome Dove. The Western epic, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel, starred Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as two aging cowboys and former Texas rangers, who organize a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The Read More

Lonesome Dove

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as fun-loving Gus MacRae and taciturn Woodrow Call Read More

The Lighthorsemen

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jon Blake, Peter Phelps, Tony Bonner, Bill Kerr, John Walton

Synopsis: An elite Australian cavalry unit attacks the Turkish-held stronghold of Beersheba in this World War I adventure drama. Four friends goes through the trials of battle in this epic $10 million production. The Australians resent being led by the British who continually misuse the cavalry. They Read More

Bluegrass

Crew: Director

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More

The Last Frontier

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Bonner, Linda Evans, Jack Thompson

Synopsis: The frontier of the title is Australia, the locale for this sprawling four-hour TV movie. Linda Evans stars as an American divorcee who marries an Australian cattleman (Tony Bonner). He dies in a plane crash, leaving Evans and her two teenaged stepchildren stranded on a drought- and debt-ridden Read More

The Girl Who Spelled Freedom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Disney's The Girl Who Spelled Freedom is a made-for-television film about a teen-aged Cambodian refugee who arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1979. As she adjusts to American culture, the girl becomes an excellent speller and, a mere four years after she arrived in the Read More

D.A.R.Y.L.

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Barret Oliver stars as robot boy Daryl (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform). The film begins with an intense chase through hairpin mountain roads as a helicopter chases after a racing automobile and the driver of the car shoves a young boy out of the door. The child is rescued and is adopted by Read More

One Night Stand

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett, Saskia Post, Midnight Oil

Synopsis: This is one of the more unusual films about a nuclear holocaust, nearly introspective in its focus on a handful of people in Sydney's world-famous opera house, finding ways to pass the time until the morning brings more news. The setting is New Year's Eve (in the middle of summer here), and some Read More

Phar Lap

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan, Judy Morris, Ron Leibman, Celia Deburgh

Synopsis: Phar Lap, the legendary New Zealand-bred racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford (Martin Vaughan Read More

The Man from Snowy River

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Lorraine Bayly

Synopsis: Inspired by an epic poem by A.B. "Banjo" Patterson, The Man From Snowy River was a major step forward for the regenerated Australian film industry of the early '80s. This "down-under Western" spotlights Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig, a headstrong young man who goes to work for a powerful cattle Read More

Dark Forces

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio

Synopsis: Harlequin is directed by Simon Wincer and tells a tale with echoes in 20th-century Russian history. Nick and Sandra Rast (David Hemmings and Carmen Duncan) have a little boy, Alex (Mark Spain), who is suffering from leukemia. Like normal parents they will do anything to help their son, especially Read More

Snapshot

Crew: Director

Actors: Chantal Contouri, Sigrid Thornton, Robert Bruning, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Vince Gil

Synopsis: When Angela (Sigrid Thornton) becomes successful, the former hairdresser's assistant has to deal with the reactions of her old friends to her new situation. She also must deal with romantic advances from an older woman. Nonetheless, she is plucky and confident enough to manage. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Chopper Squad

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Cash and Company

Crew: Director