Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is a Dutch Australian film director.

De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old.

[1] He attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney.

According to the jacket notes of the videotape, de Heer holds the honor of co-producing and directing the only motion picture, Dingo, in which the jazz legend Miles Davis appears as an actor.

A comprehensive study of his films to date, Dancing to His Song: the Singular Cinema of Rolf de Heer by film critic Jane Freebury, is published in ebook and print (Currency Press & Currency House, 2015).