Zulu (1964 film) in the background. The real location of the battle was 100 kilometres (60 mi) to the northwest, on the Buffalo River near the isolated hill at Isandhlwana. Other scenes were filmed within the national parks of KwaZulu-Natal. Interiors and all the scenes starring James Booth were completed at Twickenham Film Studios in Middlesex, England. The majority of the Zulus were real Zulus. 240 Zulu extras were employed for the battle scenes, bused in from their tribal homes over 100 miles away. Around 1,000 additional tribesmen were filmed by the second unit in Zululand. The film was compared by Baker to
Hayden Rorke astronaut under Bellows' supervision, often behaves strangely, and to decipher the madcap antics, but he never figures out what is actually going on. Bellows usually winds up making himself look like a fool in front of his own superiors. Rorke's last film was reprising his role in the television reunion movie "I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later" (1985). In the early 1980s, Rorke returned to the theater, making a number of live stage appearances. He acted in "Mr. Roberts" in St. Louis, Missouri, and also starred at the old Showboat Dinner Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida. Hayden Rorke died