Charles Chauvel

Charles Chauvel was born on 7 October 1897 in Warwick, Queensland. After working on Snowy Baker's films, he left at his own expense for Hollywood, where he was a lighting technician, press agent and stuntman. Back in Australia, he produced his first silent films and married the actress Elsa Wilcox, who accompanied and assisted him on his films and co-wrote several of them. He gave Errol Flynn his first major role in 1933, and made adventure and war films until the mid-fifties. He died on 11 November 1959 in Sydney.

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• CinemaJeddaCharles Chauvel · 1955Cinema