WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised
this article contains images of a person who has died.
The late actor's family has granted permission to use his image.
For cultural reasons he is referred to as David Dalaithngu.
From the bestselling author of Wednesdays with Bob comes an
intimate portrait of Indigenous actor David Gulpilil.
David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu was a Yolngu man beloved
worldwide as a dancer, actor and artist. His preternatural acting
in the films Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, The Tracker
and Charlie's Country - for which he won the Un Certain Regard
prize at Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Australian
Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards in 2014 - allowed
Gulpilil to transmit the worlds of the First Australians to screens
with unrivalled magic and melancholy, and made him an icon of
cinema. Gulpilil's passing in November 2021 prompted an outpouring
of love and regard from across the globe.
Derek Rielly is a journalist born in Perth and based in Bondi,
Sydney. He is the son of a pro-wrestler father and a diplomat
mother, and the creator of the four-language, pan-European magazine
Surf Europe, the co-founder of Stab magazine and BeachGrit.com. His
writing has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The
Australian. Derek is the bestselling author of Wednesdays with Bob
(with Bob Hawke). Gulpilil is Derek's second book.
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