Tony Tilse

{{Short description|Australian television director}}

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Tony Tilse is an Australian television director. He won the Australian Directors' Guild Award for best direction of a TV drama series (periodical) and TV mini-series for Underbelly in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24415164-16955,00.html|title=Tony Tilse and Peter Andrikidis win major ADG awards|last=Bodey|first=Michael|date=2008-09-29|publisher=The Australian|accessdate=2009-01-25}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Tilse also directed The Postcard Bandit, and Murder in the Outback, based upon the disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio in the Australian outback in 2001 and docu-drama Scorched, which was based upon the events of the 2001 Black Christmas bushfires;{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/home-fires-burning/2008/08/23/1219262604024.html|title=Home Fires Burning|last=Munroe|first=Kelsey|date=2008-08-25|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=2009-01-25}} as well as several episodes of sci-fi series Farscape.{{cite book|last=Clarke|first= Frederick|title=Cinefantastique |publisher=University of Michigan|year=2001|pages=35–45}}