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Filmmaker · Australia

Kevin Dobson

Died in 2026

Kevin James Dobson was born on 19 July 1952 in Manchester and emigrated as a teenager to Melbourne with his family. He joined Crawford Productions, where he learned the trade in sound and editing, moved on to directing series and won a Penguin Award in 1980 for an episode. He made a few feature films and mini-series in Australia, then worked for more than twenty years in Los Angeles, for American television and for a Hollywood studio. He died of cancer on 21 February 2026 in Lilydale, in Victoria.

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