{{Short description|Australian film and television producer and director}} {{Distinguish|Tom Jeffery}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2019}} {{infobox person | name = Tom Jeffrey AM | birth_name= Tom Morven Jeffrey | birth_date =26 September 1938 | occupation = Film and television producer and director | employer = ABC Australia, British Broadcasting Corporation }}

'''Tom Morven Jeffrey''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 26 September 1938) is an Australian film and television producer and director. He worked at the ABC and BBC, becoming an ABC drama director in the late 1960s.<ref name="pike">Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 294</ref> In 1971, he became head of the Producers and Directors Guild of Australia. He was also a consultant on the Experimental Film Fund and on the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australian Council for the Arts.<ref name="stratton">David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980, pp. 115–117</ref>

From the early 1980s he stopped directing and concentrated on producing.<ref name="jeffrey">[http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=Tom+Jeffrey&bl Interview with Tom Jeffrey, 12 November 1998] accessed 19 October 2012</ref>

Jeffrey was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1981 Australia Day Honours.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Morven Jeffrey |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883124 |website=It's an Honour |accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref>

==Select credits== *''Stormy Petrel'' (1959) (TV series)&nbsp;– assistant *''Crackerjack'' (1966) (TV series)&nbsp;– director *''Kain'' (1967) - unit manager<ref name="kain">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-tv-plays-kain/|title=Forgotten Australian TV plays: Kain|first= Stephen|last= Vagg|date=June 8, 2021|access-date=August 9, 2024}}</ref> *''This Day Tonight'' (1968) (current affairs TV series)&nbsp;– studio director *''Delta'' (1969)&nbsp;– TV series *''Pastures of the Blue Crane'' (1969) (TV series)&nbsp;– director *''The Removalists'' (1975)&nbsp;– director *''Weekend of Shadows'' (1978)&nbsp;– director *''The Odd Angry Shot'' (1979)&nbsp;– director *''The Best of Friends'' (1982)&nbsp;– producer *''Fighting Back'' (1982)&nbsp;– producer *''Going Sane'' (1985)&nbsp;– producer

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0420324}}

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