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Tom Morven Jeffrey AM (born 26 September 1938) is an Australian film and television producer and director. He worked at the ABC and BBC, becoming an ABC drama director in the late 1960s. In 1971, he became head of the Producers and Directors Guild of Australia.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
- Background
- Transportation
- Van Diemen's Land
- Transfer to Launceston
- Escape to The Bush
- Murder on Sutherland's Run
- The Raid on Tibbs' Farm
- Constable Bakie's Murder
- Cannibalism and Separation
- Capture
Thomas Jeffrey was born in 1791 in Bristol, England, the son of a butcher. He received seven years of schooling, after which he served aboard the British naval warship Achille. After four years and seven months, he deserted from the Navy, claiming "cruel usage". Jeffrey then went to London where he enlisted in the Army as a drummer. After two years...
After a period in gaol, Jeffrey was transferred to the prison hulk Retribution, moored at Woolwich on the River Thames. In September 1819, he was transported to the colony of New South Wales aboard the Prince Regent with 161 other convicts. In consideration of his previous experience at sea, during the voyage Jeffrey had his irons removed so he cou...
Jeffrey was transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the brig Hawies, arriving on 1 January 1822 at Port Dalrymple at the mouth of the Tamar River. By August 1822, Jeffrey had been assigned as an overseer of a work-gang at the George Towngaol. On the evening of 13 June 1824, Chief Constable George Lawson visited the George Town watch-house and found...
By April 1825, Jeffrey was transferred further up the Tamar Valley to Launceston, where he was assigned as flagellator at the Launceston Gaol. Jeffrey very soon became known as a vicious flogger of men who "appeared to delight in the torture which he inflicted".In April 1825, it was reported that the Commandant of Launceston Gaol "thinks that by a ...
On the night of Sunday 11 December 1825, Jeffrey absconded from lawful custody into the bush in company with three other convicts: John Perry, James Hopkins, and Edward Russell. Jeffrey's companions were said to have been amongst those in custody, and "it was agreed amongst them, that they should all take to the woods". The specific reason for Jeff...
On about 16 December, the four bushrangers arrived on James Sutherland's 'Rothbury' run, described as a "grazing farm", on the Isis River between Cressy and Campbell Town. They evidently felt secure as they rested there for about ten days, feasting on slaughtered stock from the run. On Christmas Day, they looted an unoccupied tent hut on the proper...
On the morning of 31 December 1825, Jeffrey, Perry, and Russell approached two men splitting wood near the hut of a settler named George Barnard that was situated on the Tamar River (in the vicinity of the modern Launceston suburb of Rocherlea). The bushrangers took the two splitters captive but decided not to rob Barnard's hut. Instead, they went ...
After freeing the last of their captives from the raid on Tibbs' farm, the three fugitives followed the Tamar River, heading in a north-westerly direction towards George Town near the mouth of the Tamar. One morning, arriving at the Pilot's-house near George Town, the bushrangers captured Parish (the pilot), a sailor, and a soldier who had been sta...
After Bakie's murder, the three fugitives walked on for another couple of miles (about 3 km) and stopped to eat, then sent the mailman away. Jeffrey and his two companions were compelled to keep moving, with armed parties searching for them in the outlying areas north of Launceston. In the settled districts, they had lived on slaughtered livestock ...
On the morning of Sunday 22 January 1826, three separate parties in search of Jeffrey and his companions had met up at "Mr. Davies's hut" on the bank of the South Esk River near Evandale. The men were inside the hut preparing breakfast. The parties were made up of men representing district landholders: Davies (on whose land the hut was situated), t...
Producer: The Odd Angry Shot. Tom Jeffrey was born in 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a producer and production manager, known for The Odd Angry Shot (1979), Fighting Back (1982) and Weekend of Shadows (1978).
- Producer, Production Manager, Director
- Tom Jeffrey
Tom Jeffrey, NSW Cinema Pioneer of the Year for 2018. At the NSW Branch luncheon in Sydney on Thursday 24th May, Mr. Tom Jeffrey was presented the much coveted award as the 2018 NSW Cinema Pioneer of the Year.
Aug 19, 2020 · In The Odd Angry Shot director Tom Jeffrey provides a cathartic Australian answer to Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. Australia’s participation in the Vietnam War was as much of an alienating and soul-searching experience for Australians as for Americans, and Jeffrey’s frank portrayal of a group of Australian volunteers casts ...
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