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9 unusual facts about Bruce Beresford


A Good Man in Africa

A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel A Good Man in Africa and directed by Bruce Beresford.

Bruce Beresford-Redman

Bruce Beresford-Redman was the co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Pimp My Ride and a former producer of Survivor.

He was born the son of David and Juanita Beresford-Redman, he is called "age 38" in Feb 2011 (RadarOnline.com), he grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and attended Pascack Hills High School with show co-creator Rick Hurvitz.

Beresford-Redman married Mónica Burgos on April 8, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

DEG had an early version of Total Recall in pre-production with Patrick Swayze as Quaid and Bruce Beresford to direct (David Cronenberg had also been approached), where it was to have been shot in Australia.

Desmond Doyle

A highly fictionalised account of these events has been recorded in the film Evelyn (2002), starring Pierce Brosnan (who plays Desmond), Julianna Margulies, Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Rea and Aidan Quinn and directed by Bruce Beresford.

Garnett Bruce

He has worked under such directors as Francesca Zambello, Bruce Beresford, John Copley, Lofti Mansouri, John Cox, Stephen Lawless, and Nathaniel Merrill, and he been responsible for reviving many of their productions.

Josephine Humphreys

Rich in Love, probably her best-known novel, was made into a 1993 film of the same title directed by Bruce Beresford, from a screenplay by Alfred Uhry, starring Albert Finney and Jill Clayburgh.

Palmer, Texas

In both towns, director Bruce Beresford deliberately filmed more barren and isolated locations that more closely resembled the West Texas area.


Fringe dwellers

The Fringe Dwellers is the title of a 1986 Australian film about this group of people, directed by Bruce Beresford.

Jesse Rosenfeld

At the age of twelve, whilst living in Cairns, Jesse landed the role of Danny Tippler in Bruce Beresford's motion picture Paradise Road and found himself spending several months working alongside such actors as Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Pamela Rabe, Elizabeth Spriggs and relative newcomer Cate Blanchett.

Li Cunxin

Mao's Last Dancer was adapted into a 2009 feature film of the same name by director Bruce Beresford and writer Jan Sardi.


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