Robert Tudawali {1930–1967} was an Australian actor, born and raised on Melville Island in the Northern Territory. He became the first Aboriginal film star as a result of playing the lead role, Marbuck, in Jedda.
As he alternated several times between Aboriginal and white society, he used the name Bobby Wilson in Darwin. Under this name he took part in the TV series Whiplash.
In 1987, Steve Jodrell directed a made for TV 91 min. docu-drama about Robert Tudawali.[1]
According to the quoted credits, Tudawali was: prod. Paul D. Barron and Julia Overton, wr. Alan Seymour, dop. Michael Edols, prod. design Phil Peters, ed. Kerry Regan; Ernie Dingo, Jedda Cole, Peter Fisher, Frank Wilson, Charles Tingwell, Suzanne Peveril, Bill McCluskey, Michelle Torres.[1]