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.
Henry Woodfall Crowe HMS "Duke of Wellington" during the war was issued as a book in 2012 by one of his relatives. At the time, "The Duke of Wellington" was the world's largest battleship and the ship's commander, Charles Napier, was a legend in his own time. Crowe later served as the British consul in Helsinki. Crowe died in Christiania and is buried there in Our Savior's Cemetery. Henry Woodfall Crowe Henry Woodfall Crowe (April 29, 1832 – November 7, 1865) was a British-Norwegian interpreter, translator, and author. Crowe was born in Kåfjord, Norway, the son of John Rice Crowe (1795–1877) and Malene