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The First Kangaroos, the Glossary

The First Kangaroos is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney.^[1]

38 relations: Albert Goldthorpe, Albert Rosenfeld, Alex Broun, Alex Burdon, Allan Surtees, Andrew Ettingshausen, Australia national rugby league team, Balmain Tigers, Chris Haywood, Clarissa Kaye, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Dally Messenger, Dan Frawley, Dennis Waterman, Dulwich Hill, Frank Cvitanovich, Ian Gilmour (actor), J. J. Giltinan, Jim Carter (actor), Jim Devereux, John Dicks (actor), John Dingwall, Kangaroo Tour, Nigel Williams (author), Philip Quast, Roadshow Entertainment, Sandy Pearce, Sports film, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tony Martin (Australian actor), Wayne Pearce, Wayne Pygram, William Motzing, 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, 1938 British Empire Games, 1982 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, 1994 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.
Australian sports drama films
Cultural depictions of Australian people
Cultural depictions of rugby footballers
Rugby league films

Albert Goldthorpe

Albert Edward Goldthorpe (3 November 1871 – 8 January 1943) was an English rugby footballer from the period around 1895's schism in English rugby, which led to the formation of rugby league football around the turn of the century.

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Albert Rosenfeld

Albert Aaron Rosenfeld (28 July 1885 – 7 September 1970) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer, a national representative whose club career was played in Sydney and in England.

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Alex Broun

Alex Broun is an Australian theatre director/producer, playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively with Short+Sweet, a series of theatre festivals for productions of ten minutes or less.

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Alex Burdon

Alexander Burdon (31 March 1879 – 13 December 1943) was an Australian rugby union and pioneer professional rugby league footballer - a dual-code rugby international.

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Allan Surtees

Allan Joseph Surtees (31 December 1924 – 1 November 2000) was an English actor who appeared in many television productions and films over a 30-year period.

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Andrew Ettingshausen

Andrew "ET" Ettingshausen (born 29 October 1965) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.

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Australia national rugby league team

The Australian national rugby league team, the Kangaroos, have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competitions since the establishment of the game in Australia in 1908.

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Balmain Tigers

The Balmain Tigers (also known as the Sydney Tigers from 1995 to 1996) are a rugby league club based in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Balmain.

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Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood (born) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name.

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Clarissa Kaye

Clarissa Kaye (2 August 1931 – 21 July 1994) was an Australian stage, film and television actress.

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Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks

The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales.

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Dally Messenger

Herbert Henry Messenger, nicknamed "Dally" and sometimes "The Master" (12 April 1883 – 24 November 1959) was one of Australasia's first professional rugby footballers, recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code.

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Dan Frawley

Dan Frawley (1882–1967) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer, a national representative player.

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Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman (24 February 1948 – 8 May 2022) was an English actor and singer.

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Dulwich Hill

Dulwich Hill is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Frank Cvitanovich

Frank Cvitanovich (14 August 1927 – 12 August 1995) was a Canadian documentary film maker, who made much of his best work for British television.

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Ian Gilmour (actor)

Ian Gilmour is a New Zealand-born actor and director who has worked mostly in Australia.

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J. J. Giltinan

James Joseph Giltinan (1866–1950) was an Australian entrepreneur who helped to introduce the sport of rugby league football to Australia.

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Jim Carter (actor)

James Edward Carter (born 19 August 1948) is an English actor.

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Jim Devereux

James Devereux (1887–1934), also known by the nickname of "Muscles", was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s.

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John Dicks (actor)

John Dicks (born 23 July 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor.

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John Dingwall

John Dingwall (13 July 1940 – 3 May 2004) was an Australian writer of film and television, best known for his screenplay Sunday Too Far Away (1975).

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Kangaroo Tour

Kangaroo Tour is the name given to Australian national rugby league team tours of Great Britain and France, tours to New Zealand and the one-off tour to Papua New Guinea (1991).

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Nigel Williams (born 20 January 1948) is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.

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Philip Quast

Philip Mark Quast (born 30 July 1957) is an Australian actor and bass-baritone singer.

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Roadshow Entertainment

Roadshow Entertainment (formerly known as Roadshow Home Video from 1982–1993) is an Australian home video, production and distribution company that is a division of Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment) that distributes films in Australia and New Zealand.

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Sandy Pearce

Sidney Charles Pearce (born 30 May 1883 and died 14 November 1930 Double Bay, New South Wales), better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and boxer.

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Sports film

A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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Tony Martin (Australian actor)

Anthony Martin (born 1 January 1953) is an Australian actor.

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Wayne Pearce

Wayne John Pearce OAM (born 29 March 1960 in Balmain, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach.

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Wayne Pygram

Wayne Pigram (born 13 October 1959), better known by his stage name Wayne Pygram, is an Australian actor, known for his role as Scorpius in the science fiction series Farscape (2000–2003) and the miniseries that followed, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004).

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William Motzing

William Edward Motzing Jr. (August 19, 1937January 30, 2014) was an American composer, conductor, arranger and trombonist best known for the award-winning film and television scores and gold and platinum pop album arrangements he wrote in Australia.

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1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain

The 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the first ever such tour for the newly-formed Australia national rugby league team (or 'The Kangaroos').

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1938 British Empire Games

The 1938 British Empire Games was the third British Empire Games, the event that evolved to become the Commonwealth Games.

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1982 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The 1982 Kangaroo tour was the fifteenth Kangaroo tour where the Australian national rugby league team played a number of matches against British and French rugby league teams, in addition to the Test matches.

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1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The 1990 Kangaroo Tour was the seventeenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship reasons) travelled to Europe and played eighteen matches against British and French club and representative rugby league teams, in addition to three Test matches against Great Britain and two Tests against the French.

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1994 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The 1994 Kangaroo Tour was the 18th and last Kangaroo Tour played in the conventional format, where the Australia national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship reasons) played a number of matches against British and French clubs or provincial outfits, in additions to the Test matches.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Kangaroos

The First Kangaroos, the Glossary

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See also

Australian sports drama films

Cultural depictions of Australian people

Cultural depictions of rugby footballers

Rugby league films

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