Frederick Alan Schepisi AO (born 26 December 1939) is an Australian film director and scriptwriter who was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Insignia of a Companion of the Order of Australia. ... is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... This list is poorly defined, permanently incomplete, or has become unverifiable or an indiscriminate list or repository of loosely associated topics. ...

His credits include Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, Six Degrees of Separation, Fierce Creatures, The Russia House, and most recently Empire Falls, which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, and for which he gained an Emmy nomination for best director. Last Orders is a film based on the Graham Swift novel Last Orders. ... Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. ... Plenty is a 1985 movie starring Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Ian McKellen, Sam Neill and Burt Kwouk. ... For the Battlestar Galactica episode, see Six Degrees of Separation (Battlestar Galactica). ... Fierce Creatures is a 1997 comedy movie, John Cleese and companys follow-up to the widely popular A Fish Called Wanda. ... The Russia House is a novel by John Le Carré published in 1989. ... Empire Falls is a two-part mini-series that aired on HBO in 2005. ...

Filmography

• The Devil's Playground (1976)
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
• Barbarosa (1982)
• Iceman (1984)
• Plenty (1985)
• Roxanne (1987)
• A Cry in the Dark (1988)
• The Russia House (1990)
• Mr. Baseball (1992)
• Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
• I.Q. (1994)
• Fierce Creatures (1997)
• Last Orders (2001)
• It runs in the family (2003)
• Empire Falls (2005)

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External links

• fredschepisi.com
• A biography from OnlyMelbourne.com.au
• Fred Schepisi at the Internet Movie Database