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CibbuanoFormer Hawk dies
April 11th 2009 07:36
FORMER Hawthorn and Brisbane player and respected documentary maker Robert Dickson has died in a car crash while in South Africa.
Dickson's five-year-old son Byron was also killed in the accident.
The 45-year-old played 19 matches for the Hawks and Bears from 1988 to 1991.
His most recent documentary, The Essence of the Game, which depicted the inner workings of football clubs from grass roots to the elite level, was broadcast on the eve of the AFL season.
Dickson also produced and directed The Passion to Play in 2001 and Shane Crawford Exposed in 2004.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou paid tribute to a personal friend.
"He was a wonderful film-maker but above all he was a wonderful person who brought enormous empathy to what he was doing, whether it was filming a NAB Auskick clinic or (Hawthorn captain) Sam Mitchell standing in the middle of the MCG savouring a premiership medal," Demetriou said.
"He was a friend to so many of us at the AFL and in the wider football world I don't think there is one person at any level of the game who has met him who was not the better for being in his company because he was so passionate about life and our game."
"He was one of those rare people who could capture on film the passion and beauty of the game and to articulate in images exactly what we all love about the game but struggle to be able to put into words."
Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett said the club was shattered by the news.
"Rob was a very creative individual and well known in the AFL and particularly the Hawthorn family," Kennett said.
"He has done some wonderful work and that will forever be a tribute to his professionalism."
"Our condolences go out to his broader family and our thoughts are with his wife Dusty and son Gabriel as they continue to be treated in hospital for injuries sustained in the accident and come to terms with the loss of their father, husband, brother and son."
Dickson's brother Don described him as a 'shining light'.
"Rob was a wonderful brother, a wonderful son and father to his boys. He just achieved so much in his life as a footballer, as a contestant on Australian Survivor and with his film production work - and also as a loving and kind father," he said.
"He was really just a shining light."
"From an early age everything he turned his hand to he was sensational at, but above all he was such a wonderful person who we loved so much."
Dickson's five-year-old son Byron was also killed in the accident.
The 45-year-old played 19 matches for the Hawks and Bears from 1988 to 1991.
His most recent documentary, The Essence of the Game, which depicted the inner workings of football clubs from grass roots to the elite level, was broadcast on the eve of the AFL season.
Dickson also produced and directed The Passion to Play in 2001 and Shane Crawford Exposed in 2004.
"He was a wonderful film-maker but above all he was a wonderful person who brought enormous empathy to what he was doing, whether it was filming a NAB Auskick clinic or (Hawthorn captain) Sam Mitchell standing in the middle of the MCG savouring a premiership medal," Demetriou said.
"He was a friend to so many of us at the AFL and in the wider football world I don't think there is one person at any level of the game who has met him who was not the better for being in his company because he was so passionate about life and our game."
"He was one of those rare people who could capture on film the passion and beauty of the game and to articulate in images exactly what we all love about the game but struggle to be able to put into words."
Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett said the club was shattered by the news.
"Rob was a very creative individual and well known in the AFL and particularly the Hawthorn family," Kennett said.
"He has done some wonderful work and that will forever be a tribute to his professionalism."
"Our condolences go out to his broader family and our thoughts are with his wife Dusty and son Gabriel as they continue to be treated in hospital for injuries sustained in the accident and come to terms with the loss of their father, husband, brother and son."
Dickson's brother Don described him as a 'shining light'.
"Rob was a wonderful brother, a wonderful son and father to his boys. He just achieved so much in his life as a footballer, as a contestant on Australian Survivor and with his film production work - and also as a loving and kind father," he said.
"He was really just a shining light."
"From an early age everything he turned his hand to he was sensational at, but above all he was such a wonderful person who we loved so much."
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