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Roger Eastgate Holden Mirams (16 April 1918 – 26 February 2004) was a New Zealand-born film producer and director, whose career extended over 60 years.
Apr 8, 2004 · Roger Mirams, who has died aged 85, was an innovator and pioneer of Australian television. Starting with a blank sheet, he helped to transform local children's drama into a global industry.
Roger Mirams was born in 1918 in New Zealand. He was a producer and writer, known for Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001), Runaway Island (1984) and The Rovers (1969). He died on 26 February 2004.
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Roger Eastgate Holden Mirams (16 April 1918 – 26 February 2004) was a New Zealand-born film producer and director, whose career extended over 60 years. Mirams co-directed Broken Barrier, the only local dramatic feature film made in New Zealand in the 1950s, and later won a reputation for the children's television series he produced in Australia.
Roger Mirams - Roger Mirams helped launch legendary independent company Pacific Films in 1948, and went on to co-direct Broken Barrier in 1952 with John O'Shea — the only Kiwi feature made that decade.
Oct 24, 2018 · In 1956 Roger Mirams moved to Sydney, where Movietone was based – but O’Shea refused to give up his feature film dreams. He spent the next 12 years raising the finance for his next project. This was Runaway, considerably more ambitious than his first feature and conceived as a scathing critique of conventional New Zealand society.
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New Zealand-born Roger Mirams was a pioneer of the Antipodean film and TV industry. He developed his love of film while he was still at school. Aged just 13, he produced his first film When The Gangsters Came To Christchurch, which gained a screening at the local cinema.
