The Defence of Rorke's Drift The Defence of Rorke's Drift The Defence of Rorke's Drift is an 1880 painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift which took place during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1877 to 1879. The battle and the men who fought in it were made famous in the 1964 film "Zulu". The Battle of Rorke's Drift caused a wave of patriotic fever in the United Kingdom and the surviving participants, especially the officers, were feted on their return in October 1879, first going to Windsor Castle to meet Queen Victoria before posing for Elizabeth Thompson at Portsmouth
Hayden Rorke roles in films. In 1957, Rorke played Steve, the film agent, in the CBS television series "Mr. Adams and Eve", starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino (then married in real life) as a fictitious acting couple residing in Beverly Hills, California. He played several guest roles on television, winning the role of Colonel Farnsworth in the short-lived 1964 ABC sitcom "No Time for Sergeants", based on the Andy Griffith film of the same name, but starring Sammy Jackson. He also guest-starred on three episodes of CBS's "Perry Mason" between 1960 and 1963. In his first role, he played the title