J.A. Lipman

Jonas Alfred Lipman (born 1882) was an actor, producer and director of theatre and film of Melbourne.

He was described as "a colourful extrovert" with "a flair for the wheeling and dealing of the film trade". He worked in distribution and exhibition in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly of British films in Australia.

Lipman was from Adelaide.

In 1920, when operating the cinema at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, he was fined for showing the movie Damaged Goods, judged as obscene. The same year he helped established the company United Shows Inc. Three years later he helped set up the Australian Releasing Corporation.

He wrote Just Peggy while in the USA. His best known film is probably Mystery Island (1937).

It is possible he was the J(onas) Alfred Lipman who moved to Western Australia, where he was on the Nestlé sales staff and died on 18 November 1941.

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