George Ogilvie, who co-directed the 1985 action film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with George Miller and guided Russell Crowe in his big-screen debut, has died.
He was 89. Ogilvie died Sunday of cardiac arrest at the Braidwood Hospital in New South Wales, his niece Heather Ogilvie told The Hollywood Reporter.
He had been suffering from emphysema for years. It was in the 1990 Australian romantic drama The Crossing that Crowe, then 26, first appeared on a film screen.
Ogilvie recalled Crowe arriving late to his audition, disheveled and out of breath. "He was desperate, but from the moment he walked in he knew he belonged there," he said in 2016. "He was a force.
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