David Caesar

{{Short description|Australian film director}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} '''David Caesar''' (born 1963) is an Australian television and film director and writer.<ref name="australianscreen1">{{cite web|url=http://aso.gov.au/people/David_Caesar/screenography/|title=David Caesar Screenography|work=Australian Screen|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive |accessdate=11 March 2010}}</ref> He grew up in Turlinjah on the south coast of NSW and attended school in nearby Moruya where he was school captain in his senior year.

Caesar graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 1987.<ref name="premiersawards1">{{cite web|url=http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/awards-shortlists/script-writing-award/46?task=view|title=David Caesar – Prime Mover|work=2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards|publisher=Arts NSW|accessdate=11 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525045405/http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/awards-shortlists/script-writing-award/46?task=view|archive-date=25 May 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=australianscreen2>{{cite interview |last=|first=|subject=David Caesar |subject-link=David Caesar |last2= |first2= |subject2= |last3= |first3= |subject3= |last4= |subject4= |interviewer=Ray Argall |title=Australian Screen |url= http://aso.gov.au/people/David_Caesar/interview/|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive|location=Sydney |date=13 June 2009 |accessdate=11 March 2010 }}</ref> He won an AWGIE and best director at Shanghai Film Festival for his film MULLET. He won a Queensland Premiers Literary award for the screenplay for PRIME MOVER in 2008.

==Television credits== * Dangerous (TV series) * RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series) * Fireflies (TV series) * CrashBurn * Bad Cop, Bad Cop * Water Rats * Stingers * All Saints (TV series) * Wildside (Australian TV series) * Halifax f.p. * Twisted Tales (TV series) * The Feds (telemovie) * Bananas in Pyjamas * K-9 (TV series) – Regeneration (Series 1; Episode 1) * K-9 (TV series) – Liberation (Series 1; Episode 2) * Rush (TV series) * Razor (TV series) * Cops LAC (TV series) * Phryne Fisher (TV series) * NCIS: Sydney

==Film credits== * ''Greenkeeping'' (1992) * ''Idiot Box'' (1996) * ''Mullet'' (2001) * ''Dirty Deeds'' (2002) * ''Prime Mover'' (2009) * ''Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows'' (2016)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caesar, David}} Category:Australian film directors Category:Australian film producers Category:Australian screenwriters Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Australian television directors Category:Writers from New South Wales Category:Australian Film Television and Radio School alumni Category:People from the South Coast (New South Wales)