Cultural Depictions
Thunderbolt's story has been dramatised several times.
- John Gavin played him in the 1910 silent film Thunderbolt.
- Cecil Holmes made Captain Thunderbolt in 1951 with locations in New England. After distribution difficulties, the premiere was in June 1955 at the Capitol Theatre, Armidale. The Sydney release was on 8 September 1955 at the Lyric, George Street. No complete print of the film is now known. The trailer was uncovered in January 2010 by the National Film and Sound Archive. The film is a focus item in NFSA's Search for Australia's Lost Films.
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