William Takaku | |
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Died | 3 January 2011 Port Moresby |
Occupation | Actor, screenwriter and theatre director |
Years active | from 1992 (screen) |
William Takaku (died 3 January 2011[1] [2]) was a Papua New Guinean film, television and theatre actor. He was also a screenwriter and a former theatre director.
He was for a time director of the National Theatre Company in Papua New Guinea.[3]
He co-wrote, with Albert Toro, and directed the television miniseries Warriors in Transit (1992).[3] Takaku has also directed the Milne Bay Provincial Theatre Group.[3]
As an actor, he co-starred as Man Friday alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Robinson Crusoe (1997) and he appeared as Magnus in the television miniseries The Violent Earth (1998).[4]