Born on the 7th October 1897 (died 11th November 1959) Charles was an Australian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter and nephew of Australian Army General Sir Harry Chauvel. He is noted for making the films Forty Thousand Horsemen in 1940 and Jedda in 1955. After leaving school, he worked on Queensland properties, and on his family property when his father was at war, before studying commercial art and taking drama classes in Sydney. He was fascinated by films and pestered a friend, showman Reginald “Snowy” Baker, to give him work as a production assistant; usually, he was the man in charge of the horses. Chauvel worked on The Shadow of Lightning Ridge (1920) and The Jackeroo of Coolabong (1920) with Baker; he also assisted on Robbery Under Arms (1920). He designed the St Aidan’s Church of England in Mutdapilly in 1921 (the church closed in 1974 and is now used as a private residence). Chauvel followed Baker to Hollywood in 1922, at his own expense, and spent some time as a jack of all trades including working as an extra, a lighting technician, a publicist, a stunt double. After this, Chauvel turned to television, making the BBC series Walkabout which travelled to interesting locations in Australia. Since 1992 the Brisbane International Film Festival has awarded a Chauvel Award to a “distinguished contributor to Australian Cinema”. An art-house cinema, the Chauvel Cinema, in the suburb of Paddington, Sydney is named after him. Chauvel was posthumously inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Charles Chauvel was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an “Influential Artists”.