From Steel City to Hollywood

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The work From Steel City to Hollywood represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

From Steel City to Hollywood

Statement of responsibility

Phil Avalon

Title variation

From Steel City to Hollywood

Title variation remainder

the amazing autobiography of Phil Avalon...model, surfer, actor, writer, director and producer

Creator

• Avalon, Phil

Author

• Avalon, Phil

Subject

• Motion picture industry -- Anecdotes
• Motion picture producers and directors -- Australia -- Biography
• Surfers -- Australia -- Biography
• Avalon, Phil
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- Australia | Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Australia
• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

Phil Avalon is one of Australia's most successful independent film producers. Now fans and film buffs alike can delve into the life of a legend, in his autobiography From Steel City to Hollywood. Phil tells his story of a kid growing up in Steel City - Newcastle, NSW; his memories as a surfer in the early 1970s; living as a struggling actor and Cleo centrefold and later a writer, director and producer. In 1978, he wrote, produced and starred in arguably Australia s most successful independent film, Summer City which unearthed a young Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley and John Jarratt. Since that time he has made more than a dozen films starring notable Hollywood stars and captured a Masters World Surfing Championship along the way. Jam packed with charming anecdotes from his career, From Steel City to Hollywood gives the reader a rare insight into the plights and successes of a living legend in the entertainment culture

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

VHEI

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction