Cecil William Holmes (23 June 1921 – 24 August 1994) was a New Zealand-born film director and writer.
Holmes was born on 23 June 1921 in Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
[1] He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and British Royal Navy during World War II before turning to filmmaking.
[1] His second wife was author and Indigenous Australian advocate Sandra Le Brun Holmes, who contributed an account of the experience of their making I, the Aboriginal to Walkabout,[3] a magazine for which Holmes himself also wrote.
[4] The Cecil Holmes Award given by the Australian Directors Guild is named after him.