Alan Simpson

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Biography

Alan was born in 1939 in Warragul, the son of Bill Simpson and Mary (Reid) Simpson. Alan grew up in Ararat, living with his grandmother Sarah while his mother worked in Dandenong at an umbrella factory (after Alan's father was killed during World War 2). Alan studied at Ararat High School and later at the University of Melbourne. He was a (history) school teacher at Altona High School from ~1961-1970. While there he ran the Altona Film Society out of the local civic centre. He met local teacher Wendy Thompson (who had moved back to Melbourne to teach at Altona High School) and they got married in 1970. Alan then joined Village Cinemas as a programmer (choosing which films were to be presented in cinemas in and around Victoria). In the mid-1970s he took over management of Village Theatres' Ararat Astor Cinema (independent about 1978-1983) and later also took over management of the Village’s Trak Cinema, in Melbourne suburb of Toorak, the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick, and the Croydon Twin (later Croydon quad) Cinemas in Hewish Rd, Croydon. He retired from the cinema industry in the mid 1990s. Alan passed away in 2010 and is buried at the Cathcart cemetery, near Denicul Creek/Ararat in rural Victoria, with several generations of his maternal ancestors buried nearby

Sources

• primary information as immediate family of contributor
• Birth Certificate 33375/39 Victoria, Australia
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 September 2020), memorial page for Alan William Simpson (22 Oct 1939–6 Mar 2010), Find a Grave Memorial no. 214174667, citing Cathcart Cemetery, Ararat, Ararat Rural City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by Reid Matheson descendant (contributor 50524112) .
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