Alexander Roy Harwood (1897â€"1980), better known as A. R. Harwood, or
Dick Harwood, was an Australian film director and producer who also
worked in exhibition. He was inspired to become a filmmaker when he
was posted to Tahiti to work for an insurance company and watched the
shooting of Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925). He returned to
Australia and produced and directed The Man Who Forgot (1927).Harwood
went on to make a number of feature films over the next twenty
years.Film historians Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper said of him that
"what Harwood lacked in talent as a director, he made up for in
perseverance, usually in the face of formidable shortages of finance
and equipment."He also worked as an insurance broker, real estate
agent, theatre manager and chief executive for the Miss Australia
Quest.
Dick Harwood, was an Australian film director and producer who also
worked in exhibition. He was inspired to become a filmmaker when he
was posted to Tahiti to work for an insurance company and watched the
shooting of Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925). He returned to
Australia and produced and directed The Man Who Forgot (1927).Harwood
went on to make a number of feature films over the next twenty
years.Film historians Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper said of him that
"what Harwood lacked in talent as a director, he made up for in
perseverance, usually in the face of formidable shortages of finance
and equipment."He also worked as an insurance broker, real estate
agent, theatre manager and chief executive for the Miss Australia
Quest.
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