William Takaku was a Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

n film

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, television

Television

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 and theatre

Theatre

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 actor

Actor

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. He was also a screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and a former theatre director.

Career

He was for a time director of the National Theatre Company

National Theatre Company (Papua New Guinea)

The National Theatre Company was, as its name suggests, a State-funded theatre company in Papua New Guinea. It was directed by William Takaku and administed by the government's National Cultural Commission...

 in Papua New Guinea.

He co-wrote, with Albert Toro, and directed the television miniseries

Miniseries

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 Warriors in Transit

Warriors in Transit

Warriors in Transit is a 1992 Papua New Guinea theatrical television series , written and directed by William Takaku and Albert Toro. It consists in eight episodes, lasting twenty-five minutes each. It was the first ever "broadcast-length drama wholly conceived and produced by Papua New Guineans"...

(1992). Takaku has also directed the Milne Bay Provincial Theatre Group.

As an actor, he co-starred as Man Friday

Man Friday

Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe names the man, with whom he cannot at first communicate, Friday because they first meet on that day...

 alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Robinson Crusoe (1997) and he appeared as Magnus in the television miniseries The Violent Earth (1998).

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