William Takaku

William Takaku
Born	Born: Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Died	3 January 2011 Port Moresby
Occupation	Storyteller, Actor, Screenwriter and Theatre director
Years active	from 1992 (screen)

William Takaku (died 3 January 2011) was a Papua New Guinean film, television and theatre actor. He was also a screenwriter and a former theatre director.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he travelled far from his birthplace on the island of Bougainville, as a storyteller and spokesperson for his people. They had recently expelled from the island copper mining operations which had been polluting the river they depended upon. [1] In June 1991, he was a guest speaker and storyteller at the International Gathering of Mother Earth's People, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

He was for a time director of the National Theatre Company in Papua New Guinea.

He co-wrote, with Albert Toro, and directed the television miniseries Warriors in Transit (1992). Takaku has also directed the Milne Bay Provincial Theatre Group.

As an actor, he co-starred as Man Friday 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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