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Rhett Bartlett

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  • 1 month ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    Edo Benetti, the Italian son of a coal miner, who played nine senior games as Richmond’s full-forward in the early 1960s, has died. He was 83. Benetti died March 3, 2025, his daughter Jan advised the Richmond Former Players and Officials. His career at Tigerland spanned 1960-1962 for nine Senior games and seven goals, and 23 Reserves matches for 43 goals. In 1962 he won the Reserves goalkicking with 22.

  • 1 month ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    Kevin Webb, Richmond’s second-oldest living footballer, who played seven games in 1949, has died. Webb died February 26, 2025, aged 96, his daughter Jenny wrote in an email to Rhett Bartlett. “He had lived a great and full life.”One of our last living players to take the field in the 1940s, Webb was recruited from Sunshine, played for the Richmond Thirds in 1947, and 21 games for the Reserves between 1947 and 1949. The Argus, May 21st 1947 detailing his clearance to Tigerland.

  • 1 month ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    The earliest surviving complete Richmond Home and Away broadcast - Round 22, 1977 - has been discovered. The two U-Matic tapes covering Channel 7’s telecast was saved by, would you believe, a Carlton supporter named Al, who rescued them from being trashed at a storage facility back in the 1980s. They have now been digitised and uploaded to Rhett Bartlett’s YouTube channel.

  • 2 months ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    To celebrate the Richmond Football Club’s 140th birthday today, Graeme Charles - the great grandson of the club’s founder James Charles – visited Tigerland to be photographed with the entire playing group, and CEO Shane Dunne. It was on this date in 1885 that James Charles the Richmond Cricket Club committeeman - who worked at the Glasgow Book Warehouse - founded the footy club at the Royal Hotel on Punt Road.

  • 2 months ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Rhett Bartlett

    Geneviève Page, the alluring French actress who starred in such films as Belle de Jour, El Cid and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, died Friday. She was 97. Page died at her home in Paris, her granddaughter, actress Zoé Guillemaud, told the AFP news agency.

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Rhett @dialmformovies
9 Apr 25

#RIP Marvin Levy, 96 https://t.co/LG26MVExqU

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Rhett @dialmformovies
8 Apr 25

#RIP Donald Crombie, 88. The Aussie director who was there at the start of the New Wave in the 70s. Directed CADDIE, CATHY'S CHILD, THE KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, and PLAYING BEATTIE BOW.

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Rhett @dialmformovies
3 Apr 25

#RIP Joe DePugh, 75 Was the 'big baseball player back in high school' who 'could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool, boy' that Springsteen sings in Glory Days. https://t.co/KmptdlNp6W