William Takaku

William Takaku
Born Date: unknown
Born: Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Died 3 January 2011
Port Moresby
Occupation Storyteller, Actor, Screenwriter and Theatre director
Years active from 1992 (screen)

William Takaku (died 3 January 2011)[1] was a Papua New Guinean film, television and theatre actor. He was also a screenwriter and a former theatre director.

Career

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he travelled far from his birthplace on the island of Bougainville, as a storyteller and spokesperson for his people. They had recently expelled from the island copper mining operations which had been polluting the river they depended upon. In June 1991, he was a guest speaker and storyteller at the International Gathering of Mother Earth's People, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

He was for a time director of the National Theatre Company in Papua New Guinea.[2]

He co-wrote, with Albert Toro, and directed the television miniseries Warriors in Transit (1992).[2] Takaku has also directed the Milne Bay Provincial Theatre Group.[2]

As an actor, he co-starred as Man Friday alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Robinson Crusoe (1997)[3][4] and he appeared as Magnus in the television miniseries The Violent Earth (1998).

References

  1. ↑ Munjin, Margaret (7 February 2011). "Farewell Takaku, you were truly a legend". The National. Port Moresby. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Thompson, Liz (18 October 2000). "Warriors in Transit: Theatre in Papua New Guinea". arTok — Pacific Arts Online ("an ABC Online-Radio Australia initiative"), hosted on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's website. Accessed 20 January 2010.
  3. ↑ Maltin, Leonard (2 September 2014). Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide. Penguin Books. p. 1632. ISBN 9780698183612.
  4. ↑ Rowan, Terry. "Pirates, Buccaneers & other Scallywags & Swashbucklers A Complete Film Guide". Lulu.com. p. 95. ISBN 9781312146006.


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