# Tom Jeffrey

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{{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](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia)
| birth_name= Tom Morven Jeffrey 
| birth_date =26 September 1938
| occupation = Film and television producer and director
| employer = [ABC Australia](/source/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation), [British Broadcasting Corporation](/source/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](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia) in the 1981 [Australia Day Honours](/source/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](/source/Stormy_Petrel_(TV_series))'' (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](/source/Delta_(Australian_TV_series))'' (1969)&nbsp;– TV series
*''[Pastures of the Blue Crane](/source/Pastures_of_the_Blue_Crane)'' (1969) (TV series)&nbsp;– director
*''[The Removalists](/source/The_Removalists_(film))'' (1975)&nbsp;– director
*''[Weekend of Shadows](/source/Weekend_of_Shadows)'' (1978)&nbsp;– director
*''[The Odd Angry Shot](/source/The_Odd_Angry_Shot)'' (1979)&nbsp;– director
*''[The Best of Friends](/source/The_Best_of_Friends_(film))'' (1982)&nbsp;– producer
*''[Fighting Back](/source/Fighting_Back_(1982_Australian_film))'' (1982)&nbsp;– producer
*''[Going Sane](/source/Going_Sane)'' (1985)&nbsp;– producer

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

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Category:Australian television directors
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