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Name
  
Roy Darling

Died
  
1956, Sydney, Australia

Role
  
Film director

Movies
  
Daughter of the East, The Lust for Gold, The Intimate Stranger

Roy Darling (1884–1956) was an English-born Australian film director and producer who worked in the silent era. Before moving to Australia, he made several films in South Africa, and directed a documentary in India called Beasts in the Jungle (1918). He moved to Australia in 1922 and lost several hundred pounds of his own money investing in his own film, The Lust for Gold (1922). He made a second feature Daughter of the East then mainly worked on documentaries and commercials. In 1947 he directed a few scenes for a proposed feature The Intimate Stranger which was never completed.

Credits

  • The Lust for Gold (1922)
  • Daughter of the East (1924)
  • The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1942) – short
  • He Chased a Chicken (1946) – short
  • The Intimate Stranger (1947) – abandoned feature
  • References

    Roy Darling Wikipedia