{{Short description|Australian documentary filmmaker and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Robert Ronald Maslyn Williams''' (20 February 1911 – 11 August 1999) was an Australian documentary filmmaker and writer.
He was born in England and moved to Australia in the 1920s, where he grew up in the New England and Southern Highlands districts of New South Wales. He studied at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and worked as a journalist before going into filmmaking.
In 1940, he joined the Official War Film and Photographic Unit as a writer-producer and served under Frank Hurley in the Middle East. He worked for the Australian Information Bureau in New York in 1945 and the Canadian Film Board in 1946.
In 1962 he left filmmaking and became a writer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?researcherPublicationId=88|title = Viewing personal publication: Unvarnished Truths: Maslyn Williams and Australian Government Film in Papua and New Guinea}}</ref>
==Select filmography== *''Mike and Stefani'' (1952) *''New Guinea Patrol''
== Selected works ==
=== Nonfiction ===
* {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=Stone Age island : seven years in New Guinea |publication-date=1964 |publisher=Collins}} * {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=Five Journeys from Jakarta inside Sukarno's Indonesia |publication-date=1965 |publisher=New York W. Morrow}} * {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=The East is Red |url= |publication-date=1967 |access-date= |publisher=Collins}} * {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=His Mother's Country |publication-date=1988 |publisher=Melbourne University Press |isbn=978-0-522-84361-3}}
=== Novels ===
* {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=The Far Side of the Sky : a novel |publication-date=1967 |access-date= |publisher=F.W. Cheshire}} * {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=The Benefactors : a novel of New Guinean conquest |publication-date=1971 |publisher=Angus and Robertson (U.K.) Ltd |isbn=978-0-09-130911-4}} * {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=Florence Copley of Romney |publication-date=1974 |publisher=Collins |isbn=978-0-00-221587-9}} * {{Citation |author1=Williams |first=Maslyn |title=The Temple |publication-date=1982 |publisher=Alternative Publishing Co-operative |isbn=978-0-909188-64-1}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|1303136}} *[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A13598 R Maslyn Williams] at AustLit *[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34798526?q&versionId=43135770 Papers of R Maslyn Williams] *[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116492137 Short story "Three Sons" by Williams]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, R. Maslyn}} Category:Australian documentary film directors Category:1911 births Category:1999 deaths Category:British emigrants to Australia Category:Australian non-fiction writers Category:20th-century Australian novelists