Rodney grew up as the son of a small town photographer on the coast of New Zealand -- a place recently made famous by Tom Cruise, whose residence in New Plymouth for 5 months during the making of "The Last Samurai," has propelled the inhabitants into a Hollywood inspired state of euphoria. But they had always been a community of film lovers and Charters as a young boy starred in several of his fathers 16mm dramas made with the assistance of Roy's partner Rowan Guthrie and the New Plymouth Film Society.

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