Actor: William Takaku

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Biography: William Takaku is a Papua New Guinean actor, and the former director of the National Theatre Company in Papua New Guinea. He also wrote and directed the theatrical television series Warriors in Transit. As an actor, he starred in the Franco-Australian television series The Violent Earth in 1998, and starred as Man Friday in the 1997 American film Robinson Crusoe.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
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Robinson Crusoe

1997

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