Zulu (1964 film) Zulu (1964 film) Zulu is a 1964 British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. It depicts 150 British soldiers, many of whom were sick and wounded patients in a field hospital, who successfully held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors. The film is notable for showing the Zulu army as disciplined and governed by strategy. The film was directed by American screenwriter Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker and Endfield, with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer. The screenplay is by
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