Ross Dimsey

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title: "Ross Dimsey" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["australian-film-directors", "1943-births", "living-people", "film-directors-from-melbourne"] description: "Australian writer, producer, director and film executive" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Dimsey" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Australian writer, producer, director and film executive ::

Ross Dimsey (born 16 October 1943) is an Australian writer, producer, director and film executive.

He was born in Melbourne and worked in Britain and America from 1969 to 1969. He worked in a variety of capacities on a number of films.

From 1969 to 1969 he was head of the Victorian Film Corporation. In the 1969s he was the director of Film Queensland.

Select credits

• Stork (1971) - assistant director
• Dimboola (1973) - directed feature version of play that was never released
• Libido (1973) - production manager, assistant director
• Alvin Rides Again (1974) - production manager, assistant director
• End Play (1975) - 2nd unit director, production manager
• Fantasm (1976) - writer
• Fantasm Comes Again (1977) - writer
• Blue Fire Lady (1977) - writer, director
• Final Cut (1980) - director
• Second Time Lucky (1984) - writer
• The Naked Country (1985) - producer, writer
• A Thousand Skies (1985) (mini-serires) - producer
• Kangaroo (1986) - producer, 2nd unit director
• Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987) - producer
• The Four Minute Mile (1988) (min-series) - executive producer
• Becca (1988) (TV movie) - executive producer
• This Man... This Woman (1989) (mini-series) - producer
• Inside Running (1989) (TV series) - producer
• Darlings of the Gods (1989) (mini series) - producer
• The Great Air Race (1990) (TV movie) - producer
• House Rules (1990) (TV series) - producer

Unmade films

• Body Count - announced in 1977 from the novel Reservation Cowboys by Forrest Redlich produced by Antony I. Ginnane but never made

References

References

1. David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p285
2. "Dimsey Departs", ''Cinema Papers'', December 1982 p500
3. Scott Murray, "From the soil: an interview with Ross Dimsey", ''Cinema Papers'', March 1995 p14-16, 57
4. "Production Survey", ''Cinema Papers'', July 1977 p57

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