Bruce Beresford Parents: Who are Lona Warr and Leslie Beresford?

Lona Warr and Leslie Beresford were the parents of Australian director, Bruce Beresford. They both sold electrical goods for a living.

Born on August 16, 1940, Bruce Beresford grew up in the then outer-western suburb of Toongabbie and went to The Meadows Public School, Parramatta. He made several short films in his teens including The Hunter (1959).

He completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in 1964. While at university, he made the short film The Devil to Pay (1962), starring John Bell and Ron Blair, It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain (1963), co-directed by Albie Thoms and starring Germaine Greer, Clement Meadmore (1963) with Bell and King-size Woman (1965).

Beresford moved to England in search of film work, however, he could not succeed so he accepted an editing job in  Nigeria, where he worked for two years in Enugu State.

He later returned to England and worked for the British Film Institute as a producer of short films by first-time directors, including Magritte: The False Mirror (1970) and Paradigm (1970).