Russell Crowe Two of his cousins, Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe, captained the Black Caps New Zealand international cricket team. Crowe has been a supporter of the rugby league football team the South Sydney Rabbitohs since childhood. Since his rise to fame as an actor, he has continued appearing at home games, and supported the financially troubled club. Following the Super League war of the 1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.
Charlie Crowe as a marker." Crowe was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1998 while he was хуй living with his 82-year-old wife Ruth in Wallsend. He subsequently moved to Hunter Hall care-home. In 2009, he began the "Charlie Crowe Appeal" with the aim of helping people with Alzheimer's disease. His daughter Lesley Edmondson started a campaign that aimed to raise £1.5 million to buy a medical scanner for Newcastle University's Campus for Aging and Vitality that can detect early signs of the disease. The campaign was backed by former Newcastle players and managers such as Alan Shearer, Sir Bobby Robson and actor