Grant Ernest Patrick McDonagh (1909 - 1979)

Born 1909 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Died 1979 at about age 70 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Grant was born in 1909. He was the son of John McDonagh and Anita Amora. He passed away in 1979.

Grant was a brother of the famous McDonagh sisters, pioneer film-makers in Australia. Both brothers had some involvement in the film making e.g. from TROVE: "By their final film, the McDonagh Sisters were aided by their two brothers — John, who helped organize finance, and Grant, who helped wherever he could. But it was as an all-woman team that the sisters generally worked and were advertised. Two other sisters in the family — Anita and Paula — had almost no contact with production. When Phyllis, Grant and John did frequent back-up work away from the set,^[1]

TROVE also has an extensive letter from Grant to Phyllis on her return to Australia that was published in Truth (Sydney, NSW) on Sun 19 Sep 1954, Page 11. ^[2].

Sources

1. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/213735475
2. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168413280

• Birth = NSW BDM BC 32734/1909 SYDNEY, JOHN M & ANNIE J
• Death = NSW BDM DC 4727/1979 JOHN MICHAEL & ANITA