Alexander Roy "Dick" Harwood (1897–1980) 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."Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p141
He also worked as an insurance broker, real estate agent, theatre manager and chief executive for the Miss Australia Quest.
Harwood was married with one daughter.
Credits The Man Who Forgot (1927) – feature Out of the Shadows (1931) – unfinished feature Spur of the Moment (1931) – feature Isle of Intrigue (1931) – feature Secret of the Skies (1934) – feature Something Different (1934) – musical variety showDocument relating to copyright registration at National Archives of Australia Pearl Lust (1936) – feature for home movie market The Avenger (1937) – feature Show Business (1938) – feature Night Club (1952) – feature
References
External links
A. R. Harwood at the National Film and Sound Archive