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John Flaus (born 1934) is an Australian film academic and theorist, actor, anarchist and raconteur. He was born in Maroubra, New South Wales.

In 1953, he was a conscientious objecter to military conscription during the Korean War, which he claims was instinctive anarchism:

It was just like in the movies. This bloke on the prosecution asks me, "What would you do if you saw an Asiatic attacking your mother?" - remember this is 1953. I said, "l'd try to stop him". He said, "What if the only way was to kill him?" I said, "I'd kill him." He said. "Well, that's what a soldier does, so why are you objecting to being a soldier?" I said, "Now wait a minute, you asked me what I'd do, what decision I'd take on my own initiative. lf I'm a soldier someone else takes the initiatives for me, and that's an entirely different thing." This went on for an hour; at one point they tried to ascertain whether there were any religious grounds on which I wouldn't be a soldier. I said, "No, it seems to me the best soldiers get religion" - and that didn't go down too well either

John Flaus has been active in the film society movement since 1953 and published his first film reviews in 1954 and was sacked during the same year when he wrote that On the Waterfront was right-wing propaganda. He was also a member of the Sydney Push. In the 1960s, he was a member of the Sydney University Film Group and the WEA Film Study Group with such notable people as Frank Moorhouse, Michael Thornhill and Ken Quinnell. He has lectured on film at various tertiary institutions including Head of Education at the AFTRS and designed the original Cinema Studies course at La Trobe University in 1970 which was the first of its kind in Australia. He became a professional actor in 1977 and has over 100 credits in theatre, film and television.

He was honoured by the Australian Writers' Guild in 1994 for his services as a script editor on various Australian films. He presented the radio program Filmbuff's Forecast with Paul Harris on 3RRR from 1980 to 1989.

Film career

The Dish (2001)
The Castle (1999)
Lilian's Story (1996)
The Efficiency Expert (1992)
In Too Deep (1990)
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1989)
Feathers
Traps
Yakkety Yak
Grievous Bodily Harm
Ghosts of the Civil Dead
Devil's Hill
Jigsaw
Blood Money (1980)
Palm Beach (1979)
Newsfront
The Plains of Heaven
Wronsky
The Love Letters From Teralba Road
Strikebound
Hungry Heart
Nirvana Street Murder
Bloodlust
The Nun and the Bandit

Reference

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