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Chris Kennedy (1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award winning film director, film writer, producer and novelist. He owned the company, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books. Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.He made his first film Glass, a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with This Won't Hurt a Bit, in 1993.
During the 1990s he made Doing Time for Patsy Cline and the following decade, A Man's Gotta Do.He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at film school In 2011 he added novel writing to his range of creative pursuits.
Chris Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.
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