- Portrayed by Iain Glen in Frankie's House (1992).
- British photographer who went to Vietnam in 1965 and spent four years covering the war. He was wounded four times.
- He was largely the inspiration for the drugged-up, risk-taking photographer played by Dennis Hopper in "Apocalypse Now".
- Left England in 1962 heading through Europe, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand and then Laos, where he worked as an agricultural advisor.
- Went to work as a press photographer for UPI and AFP, earning himself a position at UPI after he took photographs of a coup d'etat in Laos.
- Wrote 10 books.
- Adjunct professor at Griffith University in Queensland.
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