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Robert Tudawali is a Actor Australien born on 1 january 1929 at Melville Island (Australie)
Robert Tudawali (1929–1967) was an Australian actor, born and raised on Melville Island in the Northern Territory. He became the first Aboriginal film star as a result of playing the lead role, Marbuck, in Jedda.
A leading Australian rules footballer as a youth, he alternated several times between Aboriginal and white society. Tudawali used the name Bobby Wilson in Darwin. Under this name he took part in the TV series Whiplash.
Tudawali also served as Vice-President of the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights, and, working with trade unionists and author Frank Hardy, fought to highlight the poor wages and conditions of Aboriginal stockmen in the Northern Territory, which culminated in the Wave Hill walk off in 1966. Tudawali had organised to give a series of talks to unionists throughout Australia in support of the stockmen when the Northern Territory administration banned any travel by Tudawali due to the tuberculosis he was suffering at the time.
Tudawali died of severe burns on 26 July 1967 following an incident on Bagot community, Darwin.
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Birth name Robert Tudawali
Nationality Australie
Birth 1 january 1929 (95 years) at Melville Island (Australie)
Nationality Australie
Birth 1 january 1929 (95 years) at Melville Island (Australie)
A leading Australian rules footballer as a youth, he alternated several times between Aboriginal and white society. Tudawali used the name Bobby Wilson in Darwin. Under this name he took part in the TV series Whiplash.
Tudawali also served as Vice-President of the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights, and, working with trade unionists and author Frank Hardy, fought to highlight the poor wages and conditions of Aboriginal stockmen in the Northern Territory, which culminated in the Wave Hill walk off in 1966. Tudawali had organised to give a series of talks to unionists throughout Australia in support of the stockmen when the Northern Territory administration banned any travel by Tudawali due to the tuberculosis he was suffering at the time.
Tudawali died of severe burns on 26 July 1967 following an incident on Bagot community, Darwin.
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Dust in the Sun (1958)
, 1h26Directed by Lee Robinson
Genres Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jill Adams, Robert Tudawali
Roles Emu Foot
Justin Bayard, a Northern Territory policeman, is escorting an aboriginal warrior, Emu Foot, to Alice Springs to be tried for a tribal killing. They are attacked by some Aborigines and forced to take refuge at an isolated cattle station. Julie, the bored wife of the station owner Tad Kirkbridge, sets Emu Foot free and is later murdered. Bayard romances stockman's daughter Chris. Emu Foot is killed by aboriginals and Bayard exposes Julie's murderer.
Jedda (1955)
, 1h41Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Tudawali
Roles Marbuck
Rating60%
Jedda is an Aboriginal girl born on a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. After her mother dies giving birth to her, the child is brought to Sarah McMann, the wife of the station boss. Sarah has recently lost her own newborn to illness. She at first intends to give the baby to one of the Aboriginal women who work on the station, but then raises Jedda as her own, teaching her European ways and separating her from other Aborigines.