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Books Summer City: Death Rides Along on a Swinging Road Trip Back to the Sixties Movies Summer City, Liquid Bridge, Sher Mountain Killings M, Breaking Loose, Little Boy Lost Similar People Tony Bonner, Vince Martin, Jeremy Sims, George Seaton, Art Phillips | ||
Philip Avalon
Phillip Avalon (b 24 February 1955) is an Australian writer, producer, director and actor of films and TV.
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Film writer Scott Murray wrote in 1993 that:
If Australia has any producer-cum-auteurs, then Phillip Avalon is certainly one... Avalon's films are preoccupied with violence bubbling to the surface in a lower-middle-class society repressed by Christian and materialist values. He has a decided affinity for the topsider, for those who refuse to play society's games, and whose anti-social attitudes may, in fact, conceal a soul well attuned to life's pulses.
Biography
Avalon first came to public attention as a model, then he moved into acting. He produced and starred in Summer City (1977), a drama set around a surfing town which became a hit, and was Mel Gibson's first movie. He was later called in to help make the film Little Boy Lost (1978).