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Tommy Lewis

Tom E. Lewis, whose traditional name was Balang Lewis, was an Indigenous Australian from the Murrungun people He was best known for his role in the 1978 film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Yellow Fella was the first Australian Indigenous documentary screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France.


Aliases
  • Tom E. Lewis
English
  • Born In Northern Territory, Australia
  • Born August 25, 1958
  • Died May 11, 2018
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com Wikipedia
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Goldstone

2016
as Tommy

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978
as Jimmie Blacksmith

The Life of Harry Dare

1995
as Harry's Father

Red Hill

2010
as Jimmy Conway

The Nun and the Bandit

1992
as Bert Shanley

Yellow Fella

2005
as Himself

Finding Maawirrangga

2017
as Tommy Lewis

Teresa

1951
as Walter

Slate, Wyn & Me

1987
as Morgan

The Naked Country

1985
as Mundaru

The City's Edge

1983
as Jack Collins

Writer

Movie Yellow Fella 2005
Movie Finding Maawirrangga 2017

Crew

Movie Yellow Fella 2005
Movie Finding Maawirrangga 2017

Guest Star

Episode The Micallef Program
Episode #1.1
1998