{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Herc McIntyre''' was head of Universal Pictures in Australia from 1920 until the 1950s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58968847 |title=Film Chief Coming To Perth. |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) |location=Perth, WA |date=3 March 1940 |accessdate=14 September 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was important in the career of Charles Chauvel, helping finance several of his films.<ref name="wake">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|date=10 December 2025|access-date=10 December 2025|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-in-the-wake-of-the-bounty/|title=Forgotten Australian Films: In the Wake of the Bounty}}</ref><ref>[http://aso.gov.au/people/Charles_Chauvel/portrait/ Charles Chauvel biography] at Australian Screen Online</ref> He was also friends with Lee Robinson and helped him distribute ''The Phantom Stockman'' (1953).<ref>[http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/1.1/Robinson.html "King of the Coral Sea: Lee Robinson in interview with Albert Moran", ''Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture'' vol. 1 no 1 (1987)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401061747/https://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/1.1/Robinson.html |date=1 April 2019 }} accessed 14 Sept 2012</ref> ''Filmink'' called him " one of the true unsung champions of Australian film production, constantly supporting local movie makers over a forty-year career." <ref name="forty">{{cite magazine|date=9 October 2025|access-date=9 October 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-forty-thousand-horsemen/|title=Forgotten Australian Films: Forty Thousand Horsemen}}</ref>
In the 1960s McIntyre was involved with Waratah Productions.<ref name="film">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-tv-series-adventure-unlimited/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Forgotten Australian TV Series: Adventure Unlimited|date=6 May 2023}}</ref>
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