John Cosgrove
John Cosgrove (1867 – 11 August 1925) was an Australian male actor, writer and director who worked in theatre and films during the silent era. He sometimes collaborated with Bland Holt.
John Cosgrove
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- 1867
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- Australia
- Occupation
- film director · actor · screenwriter
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Cosgrove had a turbulent personal life. He would borrow money so often he was nicknamed "The Great Australian Bite". His first daughter died when a few days old. Another daughter, Noel, died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen. His son Bill died in a plane crash in 1943.
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Filmography
• The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911) • The Right to Love (1915) • The Noon Hour (1915) • The Turning Point (1915) • For Love of Mary Ellen (1915) • Queen of the Band (1915) • The Ever Living Isles (1915) • The Wayward Son (1915) • Desert Gold (1919) • Barry Butts In (1919) • The Man from Snowy River (1920) • Silks and Saddles (1921) – also story • Possum Paddock (1921) • The Betrayer (1921) • The Queen of Sheba (1921) • The Guyra Ghost Mystery (1921) – also directed • While the Billy Boils (1921) • The Gentleman Bushranger (1921) • Sunshine Sally (1922) – script
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- 1.Shoesmith, Dennis, 'Holt, Joseph Thomas (Bland) (1851–1942)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 9 September 2011.
- 2.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 106.
- 3.Jenny Rudd O'Neill, 'The Flying Cosgroves' (Jenny Rudd O'Neill, Seaforth, 1996)
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