Ian Gilmour (actor)

Gilmour has acted in several Australian television series, most notably as Kevin Burns in Prisoner in 1980. Other credits include The Box, Chopper Squad, Kingswood Country, Waterloo Station, A Country Practice and The Flying Doctors.^[1][2]

Gilmour's early film credits include Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), John Duigan’s Mouth to Mouth (1978) and The Odd Angry Shot (1979). His film work continued in the 1980s with Silver City (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) alongside American actor Eric Roberts and Malpractice (1989). He also appeared in the 1988 Fred Schepisi drama Evil Angels (aka A Cry in the Dark),^[2] which documented the true story of Lindy Chamberlain and the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain, opposite Meryl Streep and Sam Neill.^[3]

Gilmour subsequently moved away from acting to become a director. He was selected from over a thousand applicants to study at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School specialising in Screen Direction. After completing his diploma, he went into pre-production on the 1985 TV movie Double Sculls,^[2] starring Chris Haywood.

In 1992, Gilmour was the set up director on Black Beauty, which received the International TV Programmers' Award at the 1994 New York Festival.^[2] He next directed the 1993 pilot for the series Newlyweds. His subsequent work included Tales of the South Seas, TV movie Code Red (2001) and fantasy series BeastMaster (1999) and The Lost World (1999). He directed the 2002 award-winning miniseries Bootleg, three episodes of multi-award winning children's series Mortified and two 'Movies of the Week' for the Sci Fi Network.^[2] He also created and directed the 2006 film Magma: Volcanic Disaster, about a volcanic disaster.^[4]

Other directorial credits in television include: The Flying Doctors, Heartbreak High, Water Rats, McLeod's Daughters, Flipper, Phoenix and Home and Away, as well as the miniseries Snowy and Bordertown.^[2]