15 Facts About Terry Bourke

Terry Christopher Bourke was an Australian journalist, screenwriter, producer and director.

Terry Bourke worked as a show business journalist and production assistant in Hong Kong for a number of years before returning to Australia in 1971.

Terry Bourke 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 with Bourke credited as an associate producer.

Terry Bourke continued in Hong Kong shot films being credited as a production manager in Harry Alan Towers' film The Million Eyes of Sumuru directed by Lindsay Shonteff.

Terry Bourke made his directorial debut when he wrote, produced and directed Sampan AKA San-Ban shot in the New Territories in 1968 with an eye on international distribution.

Some sources credited Terry Bourke as being the first Occidential to direct a Hong Kong film.

Terry Bourke 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.

Terry Bourke wrote, directed and produced Noon Sunday, the first Guamanian feature film though scenes of Son of Godzilla had previously been filmed there.

Terry Bourke was credited as a script supervisor on Burgess Meredith's The Yin and the Yang of Mr Go shot in Hong Kong in 1970.

Terry Bourke returned to Australia where he was a second unit director and associate director on eight episodes of Spyforce.

Terry Bourke wrote and directed two episodes of the series.

The film's success led Terry Bourke to be regarded as a horror director, when he followed the film with Inn of the Damned.

Terry Bourke shot the film in 1973 with finance coming from the Australian Film Development Corporation.

Terry Bourke described the film as "Hitchcock on Horseback" with the film featuring an international cast including Dame Judith Anderson in her first Australian feature film, John Meillon, Michael Craig and American Alex Cord.

Terry Bourke could carve a piece of cardboard, put lights behind it and shoot it with a title beneath, and those that saw it on the silver screen would swear it really was a Manhattan skyline.