NO MORE WALKABOUTS
Aboriginal Australian actor David Gulpilil has died after a long battle with lung cancer. Gulpilil made his breakthrough as a 16 year old actor in the film Walkabout, often played by teachers to quiet classrooms near the holidays. This success led to films like The Last Wave and Crocodile Dundee, in which he played Neville. In 2002, he appeared in Rabbit-Proof Fence, providing for a new generation another film often played by teachers to quiet classrooms near the holidays. In recent years personal demons (introduced by the filmmakers on WalkAbout) threatened to dominate the papers more than his acting, and he was put on trial in 2006 after allegedly threatening a landlord with a machete. His defence, that of course he had a machete on his body for carving digeridoos, actually worked. He later spent a year in jail after a domestic assault trial. His lengthy illness was well documented, hence being picked by 84 teams here. You could name them all. Instead, shoutout to En Passant and The Old Lady, the only two teams in the top twenty without him!
David Gulpilil
1953 – 29 November 2021
84 teams