Charles Tait

Birthday: November 15th, 1868 Date of Death: June 27th, 1933 Place of Birth: Victoria, Australia

Though among the more obscure figures in Australian history, Charles Tait has a claim to eternal fame in the history of filmmaking - in 1906, he directed the first feature-length narrative film, The Story of the Kelley Gang, of which only a small portion survives. Tait and his brothers were theatre entrepreneurs at the turn of the century.