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Terry Christopher Bourke (Bairnsdale, Victoria 9 April 1940-29 June 2002) was an Australian journalist, screenwriter, producer and director. He worked as a show business journalist and production assistant in Hong Kong for a number of years before returning to Australia in 1971.〔(John Larkin, "Blood and Guts to Ride the (Flinders) Ranges", ''The Age'', 30 July 1971 ) accessed 23 October 2012〕 He made several movies and also worked in television.〔Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p269〕 ==Early filmography== Bourke was a newspaper journalist for ''The Australian'' and ''The China Mail'' in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. He entered the world of feature films in 1965 by raising $320,000 for actor Jeffrey Stone's first and last East-West Motion Picture Ltd production ''Strange Portrait'' (1966) with Bourke credited as an associate producer.〔p. 118 Green, Paul ''Jeffrey Hunter: The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances'' McFarland, 29 Apr 2014〕 He continued in Hong Kong shot films being credited as a production manager in Harry Alan Towers' film ''The Million Eyes of Sumuru'' (1967) directed by Lindsay Shonteff. Bourke made his directorial debut when he wrote, produced and directed ''Sampan'' AKA ''San-Ban''〔http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b76611672〕 shot in the New Territories in 1968 with an eye on international distribution. The film attracted threats of censorship and large audiences in Hong Kong as it featured what was regarded as the first nude scene in Hong Kong Cinema when star Dorothy Fu displayed one of her breasts in a scene of her running away from a pursuer. The film became the most successful Hong Kong film of the year.〔p. 65 ''Whatever Happened to Noon Sunday'' ''Uno'' Magazine〕 Though Hong Kong censors originally considered cutting the scene but allowed it in the film, the Australian censors excised the scene prior to the film's release.〔Bennett, Colin ''Australian Film Gets Censor's Ax''p. 1 ''the Age'' 11 June 1969〕 Some sources credited Bourke as being the first Occidential to direct a Hong Kong film〔p.77 康樂及文化事務署, Hong Kong (China). Leisure and Cultural Services Dept 2000〕 One of the principal investors in ''Sampan'' was Guamanian businessman and future senator Gordon Mailloux. He convinced Bourke that with Japanese film crews coming to Guam and bringing in and taking out their equipment at great expense, Guamanians could purchase and be trained in the use of film equipment for the benefit of Japanese or other foreign producers. Bourke wrote, directed and produced ''Noon Sunday'' (1969), the first Guamanian feature film though scenes of ''Son of Godzilla'' (1967) had previously been filmed there. The film was financed by the Guam Economic Development Authority with interior scenes shot in studios in Hong Kong and special effects model scenes shot in Japan.〔p. 64 ''Whatever Happened to Noon Sunday'' ''Uno'' Magazine June/July 2010〕 Bourke was also credited as a script supervisor on Burgess Meredith's ''The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go'' shot in Hong Kong in 1970. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terry Bourke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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