Brian Trenchard-Smith
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Brian Trenchard-Smith Net Worth

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Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a cult following. His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood, and he has directed 35 episodes of television series such as Silk Stalkings, Time Trax, The Others, and Flipper. He has also made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia, Europe, and America. His 39 movies include The Man from Hong Kong, Siege of Firebase Gloria, Dead End Drive-In, BMX Bandits, The Quest, Sahara, Happy Face Murders, DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, and Porky's - The College Years. He is married to Byzantine historian Dr. Margaret Trenchard-Smith, lives in Los Angeles, and is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Writer, Producer
Birth Year 1946
Birth Place  England, United Kingdom
Age 77 YEARS OLD
Occupation Film director, film producer, screenwriter

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Famous Quotes:

There is something you always get in a Trenchard-Smith movie: pace, a strong visual sense, and what the movie is actually about told to you very persuasively. Whatever I do, I'll still be applying a sense of pace: trying to find where the joke is and trying to make the film look a lot bigger than it cost.

Biography/Timeline

1965

He was commissioned to make a film about his school, Wellington College, for prospective parents. He showed this around once he left school, and it helped him get work as an editor's assistant and camera assistant with a French news company in London. However he was unable to get into the union so he moved to Australia in 1965 (his father was Australian).

1968

Trenchard-Smith worked at Channel Ten as an Editor, doing news, documentaries and station promos. He moved over to Channel 9 to work as promotions Director, then in 1968 he returned to England and went to work in London as a junior writer/producer of feature film trailers at National Screen Service.

1970

Dring the late 60s and 1970s, Trenchard Smith was one of the leading makers of film trailers in England and Australia. Among the films whose trailers he edited are:

1975

Trenchard-Smith was going to Hong Kong to make an $8,000 documentary on Bruce Lee called The World of Kung Fu but arrived on the day Lee died. He turned the documentary into a tribute on Lee, and in the course of making it met Raymond Chow who helped fund Trenchard-Smith's first feature, The Man from Hong Kong (1975). The film was successful internationally launching his career as a feature Director.

1976

The Man from Hong Kong was made for The Movie Company, a production company half owned by Trenchard-Smith and Greater Union. The Movie Company then made the documentary Danger Freaks before Greater Union pulled out. Trenchard Smith then made Deathcheaters (1976) which performed disappointingly and spent nine months on a proposed film that never got up, The Siege of Sydney. However he then made a dramatised short Hospitals Don't Burn Down which won a number of awards and was highly successful. Trenchard-Smith then made a film in the US called Stunt Rock which he once called "probably the worst film I have made".

1982

Among his most fondly remembered credits are the cult classic Turkey Shoot (1982) and BMX Bandits (1983), where he worked with Nicole Kidman.

1990

In January 1990 Trenchard Smith moved to Hollywood. He says when he left Australia "I was possibly a medium-sized fish in one of cinema's smaller ponds" and when he arrived he "immediately became plankton." (In 2001 he wrote "I believe I have now evolved into a sardine. My career goal is to become a dolphin, playfully cruising through a variety of genres on adequate budgets.")

2011

In 2011 Trenchard Smith says his passion project is to do a revisionist history of Richard III.

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