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First Blood: Rambo’s first outing is a surprisingly poignant comment on masculinity

Directed by Wake in Fright filmmaker Ted Kotcheff, the 1982 ‘vetsploitation’ flick is brutal, destructive and tragic – just like the world that men created

The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025

Ted Kotcheff obituary

Director whose work ranged from BBC TV’s Play for Today to award-winning drama and Hollywood thrillers

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025

‘Rambo: First Blood’ director Ted Kotcheff dead aged 94

After a career spanning decades in TV and film, Ted Kotcheff – the Canadian-born director best known for bringing John Rambo to the screen in ‘First Blood’ – has died at the age of 94.

BANG Premier · Apr 12, 2025

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Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94

Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2025

Ted Kotcheff death: Famed Weekend at Bernie’s director dies aged 94

The Canadian filmmaker also directed Sylvester Stallone in 1982’s ‘First Blood’

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2025

Wake in Fright understood the horrors of Australian booze culture. 50 years on, nothing’s changed

As a sober Australian man, I’ve battled the bottle and I’ve battled the boys. As Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film knows, there’s no victory in either

The Guardian - AU · Apr 9, 2025

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Poet best known for The Song of the Banana Man who went on to become a prolific playwright and screenwriter

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

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First Blood at 40: Rambo’s first outing mixed violence with vulnerability

The 1982 action thriller saw Sylvester Stallone play a wounded veteran with depth that was later betrayed by a series of xenophobic sequels

The Guardian - US · Oct 22, 2022

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