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Film director and occasional script-writer.

More prolific as a director than as a script-writer, James Bogle directed his first film in 1988: the fantasy-horror film (infused with Indigenous Australian mmythology) Kadaicha (directed to a script by prolific script-writer Ian Coughlan). He followed this in the early 1990s with two films for which he was both script-writer and director: Mad Bomber in Love (1992), co-written with Martin Brown, George Mannix, Leon Marvell, and Peter Rasmussen, and the short film 'Dream Rider' (co-written with James Gaddas), later incorporated into Australian-Japanese-Hong Kong co-production Kin Chan no Cinema Jack (1993).

His next script was not until 1998, with the adaptation of In the Winter Dark, based on Tim Winton's novella: he co-wrote the script with one of his Mad Bomber in Love collaborators, Peter Rasmussen, as well as directing the film. His next scripts were not until nearly a decade later, with an episode of Lockie Leonard (2007) (a program on which he also worked as director) and another adaptation, Closed for Winter (2008), from Georgia Blain's novel of the same name.

Since 2000, Bogle has concentrated on directing, working for the most part in television. His work includes episodes of Ocean Star (2003), Foreign Exchange (2004), The Sleepover Club (2006-2007), The Circuit (2009), K9 (2009-2010), and Lockie Leonard (2007-2010).