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	The double life of David Gulpilil - theage.com.au
		Gulpilil's circumstances are virtually unchanged from when he was born under a nearby tree in 1953.
		Gulpilil has taken to lobbying politicians to get a proper house, warning that the circumstances of this ambassador of indigenous Australia are an international embarrassment.
		Gulpilil argues that there are no services at his Gupulul out-station and that negotiating the crocodile-infested, flood-swollen river to get there is hazardous.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/12/1018333416820.html (1587 words)

	David Gulpilil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Gulpilil, David, born in 1953, Australian actor and Aboriginal dancer.
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	encarta.msn.com /David_Gulpilil.html (110 words)

	David Gulpilil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a young boy, David Gulpilil was an accomplished hunter, tracker and ceremonial dancer.
		David Gulpilil has rededicated himself to the service of his own indigenous community with particular focus on the problems of Aboriginal youth.
		Gulpilil collaborated with the director, Rolf de Heer, urging him to make the film, and Gulpilil also played the role of the storyteller in the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Gulpilil (931 words)

	Biography
		Gulpilil's on-screen charisma was such that he became an instant celebrity.
		Gulpilil's latest artistic triumph is his appearance in an autobiographical stage production in March of 2004 at the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004.
		Gulpilil has struggled personally with alcoholism and depression, as have many other indigenous artists who departed from their traditional lifestyles to become public figures.
	www.gulpilil.com /biography.htm (708 words)

	Gulpilil walks in father's footsteps : thewest.com.au
		David Gulpilil, who first appeared in Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout in 1971, is arguably Australia's best known indigenous actor and in 2002 took out the AFI best actor award for his role in The Tracker.
		David Gulpilil also had an unseen role in Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes, acting as the narrator in Australia's first indigenous language feature.
		David Gulpilil has appeared in more than 30 TV and film roles, including Crocodile Dundee and Rabbit-Proof Fence, and has travelled the world and most of Australia.
	www.thewest.com.au /aapstory.aspx?StoryName=339247 (450 words)

	I grabbed machete in fear: Gulpilil - National - smh.com.au
		DAVID GULPILIL did not intend to hurt his mates when he produced a machete during a heated stand-off, his lawyer has told a Northern Territory court.
		Gulpilil, who pleaded not guilty to carrying an offensive weapon without a lawful excuse, said he reached for the machete after Mr Williams and his friend, a former fighter with the East Timorese guerillas, known as Jungle Jim, armed themselves with a totem pole and a garden hoe.
		Gulpilil said he had drunk "only one can" when he was arrested but Constable Greg Lamb - one of three police witnesses to give evidence - said the star was "aggressive and violent".
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/i-grabbed-machete-in-fear-gulpilil/2007/01/08/1168104923423.html (630 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Last Wave
		Lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) takes on the defense of five city Aborigines who seem to have killed one of their own under tribal law - but as the government doesn't acknowledge that there are tribes in the city, defending the men appears to be impossible.
		David's research eventually lead him to surmise that some kind of cyclical cleansing of the Earth is in the offing, an apocalypse predicted - or created - by the magic of the Aborigines.
		David Gulpilil, the discovery of Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout, is described as having had tribal troubles stemming from his film roles.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s540wave.html (1400 words)

	Movie Info for Gulpilil: One Red Blood on MSN Movies
		At the age of 17, Gulpilil made history as the first Aboriginal actor to appear on film -- in Nicolas Roeg's 1971 Walkabout -- which, in turn, led to an historic acting career that culminated in his receiving numerous awards and an Order of Australia medal.
		All the while, Gulpilil remained true to his culture by accepting his tribal responsibilities, which include living in a primitive house and procuring his household's daily food and water.
		Gulpilil: One Red Blood was a participating film at the 2003 Rotterdam International Film Festival and was later shown on television by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=541633 (147 words)

	David Gulpilil @ Filmbug
		David Gulpilil was born in 1953, in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
		Gulpilil is one of Australia's most accomplished exponents of traditional Aboriginal dance and of the native wind instrument, the didgeridoo.
		David divides his time between the traditional Aboriginal lifestyle of North Eastern Arnhem Land and the pursuit of his career as an actor and performer throughout the world.
	www.filmbug.com /db/288215 (316 words)

	The Australian: Gulpilil widens a cultural journey [ 20aug05 ] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gulpilil was far from used to it when Walkabout became an international hit, catapulting him on to the red carpet in London, Cannes and Los Angeles.
		Gulpilil was in Melbourne last night for the premiere of a reinterpretation of Walkabout by Melbourne director Richard Frankland.
		Gulpilil said yesterday it was not a big deal, and that the much-talked-about tension had no grounding in reality.
	www.kooriweb.org /foley/resources/film/aust20aug05.html (424 words)

	David Gulpilil
		David lives in a tent shed in Ramingining in the Northern Territory and is quite open about the lack of facilities in his abode and the exploitation he’s experienced during his career.
		With the growing popularity of the internet,information is now only a keyboard away and same goes David, who has a website devoted to him www,gulpilil.com that is maintained by a fan in Santa Cruz, California in the United States.
		David is a rather complex man to interview and tends to go off on interesting tangents only to come back and answer your original question sometime later.
	www.abc.net.au /message/blackarts/film/s725610.htm (1054 words)

	Films from Africa and the African diaspora - ArtMattan Productions - africanfilm.com
		Legendary Aboriginal actor and Australian icon David Gulpilil's life has been one of dueling lifestyles, with his jet-setting movie star life on a completely different plane from his life as an Aboriginal village elder, and director Darlene Johnson manages to capture intimate details from both lifestyles in her 2003 biographical documentary Gulpilil: One Red Blood.
		Guiding the four into the wilderness is an English-speaking Aboriginal, the Tracker (David Gulpilil), a grizzled, enigmatic figure who serves as a bridge between the Aboriginal and white societies and whom the Fanatic views with deep suspicion.
		Gulpilil has the mystical aura of a man so profoundly in touch with the earth that he is omniscient and safe from harm.
	www.africanfilm.com /The_Tracker.htm (1161 words)

	Northern Territory News: Actor David Gulpilil is back in court [ 18jan07 ]
		ACTOR David Gulpilil has refused to stay away from his wife while drinking, prompting a Darwin magistrate to order a hearing into a domestic violence order against the movie veteran.
		It is the third time Gulpilil has appeared in court this year, after he was found not guilty of using a machete as an weapon last week.
		Gulpilil, 54, who starred in such films as Crocodile Dundee and Rabbit-Proof Fence, was issued with the DVO over an incident with his wife, Miriam Ashley, on December 28 last year.
	www.sundayterritorian.com.au /common/story_page/0,7034,21077837^421,00.html (341 words)

	David Gulpilil 01-07-53 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		When, as a young boy, David Gulpilil first arrived at the mission school at Maningrida in Australia's North East Arnhem Land, he was already an accomplished hunter, tracker and ceremonial dancer.
		Gulpilil's latest artistic triumph is his appearance in an autobiographical stage production in March of 2004 at the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004.
		Gulpilil has struggled personally with alcoholism and depression, as have many other indigenous artists who departed from their traditional lifestyles to become public figures.
	www.flickr.com /photos/gavrila/268538536 (798 words)

	Transcript: Big Name, No Blanket (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DAVID GULPILIL: Well, I've done all those things, but people in Australia rip me off, even though in the film industry, they rip off.
		DAVID GULPILIL: And then I went into jail and I rang and I said, "Her Majesty, I'm in prison," so if you call it grog, I drink grog, yes, I smoke marijuana.
		DAVID GULPILIL: If I want to hear a sound, I just trip my eye there or up there or down here or there.
	sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au /sixtyminutes/stories/2002_11_17/story_736.asp (1634 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gulpilil told her how much he had enjoyed Stolen Generations and suggested she make a documentary about his own life.
		July 11 2002 - David Gulpilil slowly moved his long, thin frame, all stick legs and no bum, and said that dancing had taken him around the world, from a tin humpy in Arnhem Land to Hollywood and back to his home on the banks of Australia's largest swamp.
		Gulpilil, 49, in Sydney recently for the filming of a documentary on his life, travelled with Roeg to promote Walkabout in Cannes and Hollywood.
	www.eniar.org /news/Gulpilil.html (2326 words)

	Ten Canoes - Meet The Tribe
		David Gulpilil was born in 1953, in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
		David Gulpilil is one of Australia's most accomplished exponents of traditional Aboriginal dance and the native wind instrument, the didgeridoo.
		In 1987 Gulpilil was awarded the Australia Medal, one of the highest awards to Australian citizens, for his services to the Arts.
	www.tencanoes.com.au /tencanoes/tribe-david.htm (260 words)

	WNYC - News - Films about Indigenous People Grab Spotlight
		Ginsburg: David is a traditional aboriginal man and he recognizes that songs dance and language even are a form of cultural property that people have had delivered from ancestors and people have caretaking responsibilities towards them.
		Ginsburg: You see David approaching the environment in these films - it appears magical because you can't imagine how in that barren environment, he is able to see traces of water and where people have been - so it appears to be a mystical or magical relationship.
		Gulpilil: My country is surrounded by rivers and swamps and Thousands and thousands of crocodiles I hunt and collect eggs...that's like a part time job.
	www.wnyc.org /news/articles/39203 (1210 words)

	The Virginia Film Festival :: Press
		Publicity photos available at press images DAVID GULPILIL Often referred to as Australia's Sidney Poitier, David Gulpilil made history at the age of fifteen as the first Australian Aboriginal to appear on film, in the 1971 international hit Walkabout.
		Gulpilil spent his childhood in the bush, receiving a traditional upbringing in the Mandipingu tribal group (Yolngu culture).
		Gulpilil is also an acclaimed storyteller, and has written two volumes of children's stories based on Yolngu beliefs.
	www.vafilm.com /php-bin/news/2003/showArticle.php?id=200 (3808 words)

	The HooK: COVER SIDEBAR- Aboriginal: Rabbit Proof star loves his work
		Gulpilil describes himself as a man of two worlds: one of knives and forks, the other of spears and boomerangs.
		Gulpilil was an aboriginal dancer, basically unknown outside Australia, when director Nicolas Roeg asked him to try out for the male lead in Walkabout (1970).
		Gulpilil loved this period action piece, he says, since he had always wanted to make a movie about "Indians and cowboys," like his youthful hero, John Wayne.
	www.readthehook.com /stories/2003/10/23/coverSidebarAboriginalirab.html (538 words)

	David Gulpilil (Site not responding. Last check: )
		David Gulpilil had previously starred in Nicholas Roeg's film Walkabout (1970) as the young Aboriginal boy who guided the 'boy' and 'girl' out of the Australian desert to 'civilization'.
		Having "received a traditional upbringing in the care of his uncle, [w]hen he came of age, Gulpilil was initiated into the Mandipingu tribal group (Yolngu culture.)." (http://www.gulpilil.com/films.htm).
		In spite of his traditional upbringing, David was attending the local school when Roeg discovered him and immediately recognised his charisma and dynamic on screen presence.
	members.iinet.net.au /~lynleyk/david.html (219 words)

	Crocodile Dundee News
		Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil has refused to stay away from his wife while drinking, prompting a Darwin magistrate to order a hearing into a domestic violence order against the movie veteran.
		THE acquittal of actor David Gulpilil on a weapons charge could be misread by people in Aboriginal communities and result in more armed violence, an NT politician has warned.
		ACTOR David Gulpilil is thinking of swapping his machete for a spear after he was found not guilty yesterday of using the tool as an offensive weapon.
	www.topix.net /movies/crocodile-dundee (630 words)

	Australia - Theater - David Gulpilil - Worldpress.org
		When David Gulpilil was a small boy he looked up into the sky and saw a plane coming in to land.
		“I would look at David on the screen in all those films, that persona, that sheer charisma that dominates with very little use of the spoken word, and I would be stimulated in a way that I could not quite get hold of.
		When you are off your land, you are no longer yourself.” This has always unsettled Gulpilil, and the stories of his sudden “walkabouts,” binges, and instability when away from his traditional country are legendary.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=1971&dont=yes (945 words)

	Blogdigger Search: David Gulpilil
		A great Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil narrates this story within a story...
		Seeing David Gulpilil in a movie just makes me smile.
		Of course, having the prolific aboriginal actor in the movie isn’t the only smart move David Hillcoat makes, and I’m happy to say that The Proposition not onl...
	www.blogdigger.com /search?q=David+Gulpilil (655 words)

	Culture Clash: David Gulpilil and Walkabout \| Articles \| MovieMail UK
		As the fl boy, Gulpilil (here credited as Gumpilil) is on a journey to manhood, sent out to live alone in the desert for months on end, relying only on the hunting and tracking skills he has learnt as a child.
		As for David Gulpilil, something of the troubling compromise that destroys his character in Walkabout (and, later, in The Last Wave) eventually began to engulf his own life.
		In Gulpilil, then, Roeg found the centre and the spirit of his film — an ebony frame of radiance from the blinding light of the desert.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /scripts/media_view.pl?id=274&type=Articles (2152 words)

	Gulpilil speaks out on marijuana -- Stick this in your pipe and smoke it -- Ah Kit !
		Gulpilil said he wanted the footage of him smoking dope at his Arnhem Land community of Ramingining to be included in a documentary on his life.
		Gulpilil cried upon receiving his jail sentence, which included a further two-month stint at the Council for Aboriginal Alcohol Program Services just out of Darwin, where he is now, living in one of a number of shacks with recovering alcoholics.
		Gulpilil says the idea that he is a drunk is one he hears about himself all the time.
	www.napnt.org /pages/Aboriginal__People_and_Marijuana-2.htm (1890 words)

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