Robert Tudawali
1929 - born At Melville Island, Northern Territory
1930s - went to Darwin
1941- became an orderly in a Royal Australian Air Force medical aid-post
1948 - married Peggy
1952- 1955 Charles Chauvel chose Tudawali for the leading male role in Jedda
1956 - National newspapers claimed that he was destitute and suffering from tuberculosis
1958 - Received further roles in an undistinguished film
1963 - Welfare Branch banished him to Melville Island for nine months
1966 - was elected vice-president at NT
1967 - Travelled to south fund-raising and community education
1967 - Was involved in a drinking session at Bagot
1987 - A film of on his life was made
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