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Jack Gavin

Jack Gavin is credited on 56 releases across 37 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1987–2018 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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56

Pressings credited

37

Albums

4

Decades active

14

In collections

Biography

John F. Gavin (9 February 1874 – 6 January 1938) was a pioneer Australian film actor and director, one of the early filmmakers of the 1910s. He is best known for making films about bushrangers such as Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlite, Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner. Known informally as 'Jack', Gavin worked in collaboration with his wife Agnes, who scripted many of his films. Film historians Graham Shirley and Brian Adams have written; "although Gavin was prolific his later surviving work shows that his entrepreneurial talent outweighed any he might have had as director." Filmink called Gavin and his wife "good solid carny folk who fought the good fight." Amongst several claims made later in life or soon after his death was one that he had made Australia's first animated short, an advertising film which featured a koala "lapping up a cough remedy".

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Credited work

56 releases · 37 albums · active 1987–2018

  • Performance · 123

Studios: Twin Pines Studio · Sound Stage Studios · Quad Studios · Emerald Sound Studios

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