Frank Coffey

{{Short description|Australian author, cameraman, director and screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Frank Coffey''' was an Australian author, cameraman, director, and screenwriter who worked mostly on the production of documentaries. For a number of years, he was in-house writer for Cinesound Productions.

Coffey worked in the camera department of Cinesound in the early 1930s. In 1935 he joined Charles Chauvel as assistant cameraman on ''Uncivilised''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17221368 |title=Australian Film |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=30,505 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 October 1935 |accessdate=24 January 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>

In the late 1940s, he was charge of documentary productions for Movietone.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132853577 |title=It Was Only A Seven-Minute Film. |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |date=15 March 1947 |accessdate=9 April 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Select credits== *''The Hayseeds'' (1933) – editor<ref name="hay">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-the-hayseeds/|title=Forgotten Australian Films: The Hayseeds|date=3 September 2025|access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref> *''Grandad Rudd'' (1934) – camera department *''Strike Me Lucky'' (1934) – camera department *''When the Kellys Rode'' (1934) – camera department *''Uncivilised'' (1936) – assistant director<ref name="civil">{{cite magazine|date=27 September 2025|access-date=27 September 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-uncivilised/|title=Forgotten Australian Films: Uncivilised}}</ref> *''Rangle River'' (1936) – editor<ref name="rangle">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-rangle-river|date=7 September 2025|access-date=7 September 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Forgotten Australian Films: Rangle River}}</ref> *''A Nation is Built'' (1938) – editor<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138991233 |title=AT THE MONTREAL. |newspaper=The Tumut and Adelong Times |location=NSW |date=27 May 1941 |accessdate=9 April 2015 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *''Gone to the Dogs'' (1939) – story editor<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40858723 |title=George Wallace Has "Gone. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=17 August 1939 |accessdate=9 April 2015 |page=8 Section: Second Section. |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name="dogs">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filimink|date=19 July 2025|access-date=19 July 2025|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-gone-to-the-dogs/|title=Forgotten Australian Films: Gone to the Dogs}}</ref> *''That Certain Something'' (1941) – camera, editor *''Will There Be a Second Front in Europe?'' (1942) – editor *''100,000 Cobbers'' (1943) – writer, editor<ref name="cob">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-100000-cobbers/|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=12 September 2025|access-date=12 September 2025|title=Forgotten Australian Films: 100,000 Cobbers}}</ref> *''Jungle Patrol'' (1944) – editor *film about Newcastle (1947) – director, writer<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132853577 |title=It Was Only A Seven—Minute Film |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |issue=21,980 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 March 1947 |accessdate=24 January 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> *''Isle of Bounty'' (1949) – camera

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==External links== *[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F2394-1%22;querytype=;resCount=10 Frank Coffey] at National Film and Sound Archive *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168863/ Frank Coffey] at IMDB {{authority control}}

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