Roscoe "Roc" Kirby AM (14 March 1918 – 25 January 2008) was an Australian businessman who founded the Village Roadshow cinema chain and film production company.
[2] In 1989, Village Roadshow went public, making an aggressive move into other markets, such as film production, theme parks and radio.
[4] At his death Village Roadshow comprised "a production division, an extensive cinema exhibition business, three theme parks on the Gold Coast and a stake in the listed radio company Austereo".
[3] John Cain II, a former Victorian Premier, interviewed Kirby for his book on Australian entertainment pioneers, On with the Show.
Kirby is credited in the book for being "one of the few people to judge correctly that TV would not kill cinema, 'and refused to scuttle out of it when his contemporaries were deserting it in droves'".