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Heath Ledger - chess

2001

Heath Ledger - chess

2001

    Ledger was a keen chess player and won a chess championship in Perth at the age of 10.

    At the time of his death he was planning to perform in and direct a feature film about a chess prodigy in an adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis (1983).

    Photo: Heath Ledger, 19 April 2001. Photographer: Karin Catt.

    Notes by Beth Taylor

    Ledger was a keen chess player and won a chess championship in Perth at the age of 10.

    At the time of his death he was planning to perform in and direct a feature film about a chess prodigy in an adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis (1983).

    Photo: Heath Ledger, 19 April 2001. Photographer: Karin Catt.

    Notes by Beth Taylor

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