Ted Kotcheff

On screen, tireless actor ranged from Rambo to Romeo + Juliet, with plenty of trips to old country

Ted Kotcheff – director of ‘The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz’ and ‘First Blood’ – is back in the limelight thanks to the rediscovery of his 1971 classic ‘Wake in Fright’, a film once described by Nick Cave as “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence”