Ned Kelly the Kelly Gang", the world's first dramatic feature-length film. Among those who have portrayed him on screen are Australian rules football player Bob Chitty ("The Glenrowan Affair", 1951), rock musician Mick Jagger ("Ned Kelly", 1970) and Heath Ledger ("Ned Kelly", 2003). In the visual arts, Sidney Nolan's 1946–47 Kelly series is considered "one of the greatest sequences of Australian painting of the twentieth century". His stylised depiction of Kelly's helmet has become an iconic Australian image; hundreds of performers dressed as "Nolanesque Kellys" starred in the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001, Peter Carey won the
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian outlaw and bushranger whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country where he is viewed by some as a Robin Hood-like figure. A melodrama, "The Kelly Gang", by Arnold Denham, was popular in Australia in the late 1890s. Other plays inspired by the story include: "Ned Kelly", a large-scale musical by Reg Livermore and Patrick Flynn, played in Adelaide and Sydney in 1977 and 1978. In 2012, Matthew Ryan's stage play "Kelly" premiered at Queensland Theatre Company, focusing on Ned