Emil Minty
Emil Minty | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 48–49) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor, Jeweller |
| Years active | 1981–1992 |
Emil Minty (born 1972) is an Australian former child actor and jeweller.
Career[]
He played The Feral Kid, a feral child in the 1981 film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. As an actor, he had no lines in the film. After Mad Max 2, Minty had minor parts in Fluteman (1982) and in The Winds of Jarrah (1983). In 1990 he appeared in a few episodes of A Country Practice.[1]
Personal life[]
Minty withdrew from acting when he finished school. He became a jeweler, and has worked at Chris Lewis Jewellers in Sydney's Gladesville since the early 1990s. He is a father of two.[2]
Filmography[]
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) - The Feral Kid
- Fluteman (1982) - Toby
- The Winds of Jarrah (1983) - Andy Marlow
- The Flying Doctors (1990) - Mat Coulson
In Popular Culture[]
In his novel Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace named one of the primary characters at The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House after Emil Minty.
References[]
- ^ Harriet King (21 May 2018). "Former Child Stars You May Not Recognize Today". Culture Hook.
- ^ Lehmann, Megan (9 May 2015). "From Mad Max’s feral child... to Sydney jeweller". The Daily Telegraph.
Bibliography[]
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 394.
External links[]
- Emil Minty at IMDb
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