Helmut Bakaitis

Biography

Helmut Bakaitis is a German Australian director, actor, and screenwriter born on September 26, 1944, to Lithuanian parents fleeing their homeland. At six, he arrived in Australia with his family, where he found solace in books, language, film, and the performing arts, eventually forming a drama group and writing plays. He won a scholarship to the National Institute for Drama before leaving home at 16 to work as a stenographer and pursue his artistic ambitions.