Margaret Fink

{{Short description|Australian film producer}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox person | name = Margaret Elliot | birth_place = | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} | birth_date = {{birth_date and age|df=yes|3 March 1933}} | occupation = Film producer }}

'''Margaret Fink''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born '''Margaret Elliott''' on 3 March 1933)<ref name=IMDb/> is an Australian film and television producer, noted for her important role in the revival of Australian cinema in the early 1970s.

==Biography== Fink was educated at [[Sydney Girls' High School]], [[East Sydney Technical College]], [[Sydney Teachers College]] and the [[Sydney Conservatorium]]. She worked as an art teacher at various high schools in Sydney from 1956 to 1962. Her sister Elizabeth is a historian who married fellow historian [[Keith Windschuttle]].<ref>Jane Cadzow, "Who's right now, then?", ''The Age'', 17 May 2003, Good Weekend, p. 19</ref>

Her productions include ''[[The Removalists]]'' (1975), ''[[My Brilliant Career (film)|My Brilliant Career]]'' (1979), ''[[For Love Alone]]'' (1986), ''[[Edens Lost]]'' (1988) (for TV), and ''[[Candy (2006 film)|Candy]]'' (2006).<ref name=IMDb>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277838/ Margaret Fink (IMDb)]</ref>

She was part of the [[Sydney Push]], a libertarian group of the 1950s and 1960s that included [[Lillian Roxon]], [[Germaine Greer]], [[Clive James]], [[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]] and [[Frank Moorhouse]].<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/national/when-the-push-came-to-shove-20090403-9qi9.html When the Push came to shove]</ref> While still known as Margaret Elliott, she published [[Harry Hooton]]'s last book, ''It Is Great To Be Alive''.<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Sasha |last=Soldatow |title=Henry Arthur (Harry) Hooton (1908–1961) |id2=hooton-henry-arthur-harry-10539 |year=1996 |volume=14 |access-date=29 August 2025}}</ref><ref>[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1853728 It is great to be alive/Harry Hooton (NLA Catalogue)]</ref> In 1961 she married Leon Fink, a renowned restaurateur, philanthropist and property developer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quay.com.au/page/our_people.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121095852/http://www.quay.com.au/page/our_people.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-21|title=Quay: Our People}}</ref> They have three children together: Hannah, John and Ben. She has also had relationships with [[Barry Humphries]], [[Jim McNeil]] and Bill Harding. Her daughter, Hannah Fink, is a writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/571509|title=Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius}}</ref> John Fink is a restaurateur and filmmaker. Ben Fink is a musician. He was the lead vocalist/guitarist and songwriter of funk band King Clam, and a member of the band [[The Whitlams]].<ref name=Leser>{{Cite web |url=http://davidleser.com/slippages/uploads/download/file/df-9-138-28.pdf |title=Margaret Fink – Her wild, wild ways |access-date=22 February 2010 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303171600/http://davidleser.com/slippages/uploads/download/file/df-9-138-28.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://davidleser.com/slippages/uploads/download/file/df-9-138-28.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 February 2010 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303171600/http://davidleser.com/slippages/uploads/download/file/df-9-138-28.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Fink was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of Australia]] in the [[2024 Australia Day Honours]] for "distinguished service to the arts as a film and television producer, and as a supporter of the visual arts community".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ms Margaret Fink |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3017298 |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref>

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