Launched while it was a teenager thanks to the film “The hike”, the Australian artist took a career of nearly 50 years. He died at 68, a few years after the discovery of a cancer.
Le Monde with AFP
David Dalahngu, the Australian Aboriginal actor, who knew a world-renowned in 1986 with his role as Neville Bell in Crocodile Dundee, died at the age of 68, four years after the discovery of cancer of Lungs.
“It is with a deep sadness that I share with the inhabitants of Australia-southern the death of an iconic artist, who marked the history of Australian cinema and the aboriginal representation on the screen” , Announced Steven Marshall, Prime Minister of the State of South Australia, in a statement, Tuesday, November 29th.
m. Dalahngu, from the Mandelpingu clan of the YOLNGU people and high in Arnhem land, in the territory of northern Australia, first flattened the screen in the hike (1971), launching a career of nearly fifty years , crowned by the price a certain look of better actor in Cannes in 2013 for Charlie’s Country.
The family of the actor, known from his lifetime under the name David Gulpili, asked for only calling David Dalahngu, in accordance with the indigenous custom for recently died people.
“He was a brother, a son, a friend, a father, a grandfather and a husband. Actor, dancer, singer and painter, he was also one of the greatest artists that Australia had ever known, “said Marshall.
” Do not forget me “
The life of the Actor and an aboriginal dancer has also been enamelled by periods of alcoholism and poverty. In September 2011, he was sentenced to one year in prison for having intoxicated, struck his wife with a broom.
Two years ago, receiving a distinction for the entire career, Mr. Dalahngu remembered his cast for the movie hiking when he was a teenager.
“I was a young boy growing up and went to school. They came for an aboriginal boy capable of playing this role, throwing a spear, dancing and singing, and they said,” Yes He is very good, “he said in a video broadcast at the award ceremony of the National Aboriginal and Islands Committee.
He also mentioned his cancer, concluding by: “Do not forget me as long as I’m here. I will never forget. I’ll always remember you, even if I left forever.”