The King
The King
Release: 2007-05-20
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 6.0
Drama
TV Movie
The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.
Production Countries
Australia
Production Companies
Crackerjack Productions
TV1
Fremantle Australia
Cast
Garry McDonald
as Nicky Whitta
Bernard Curry
as John Wesley
Nick Farnell
as Norm Spencer
Louis Corbett
as Young Graham Kennedy
Bert Newton
as Himself (archive footage)
Thomas M. Wright
as Alfie
Shaun Micallef
as Colin Bednall
Beth Buchanan
as Val Wesley
Stephen Curry
as Graham Kennedy
Todd MacDonald
as Richard Croft
Jane Allsop
as Noeline Brown
Cathy Godbold
as Rosemary Margan
Steve Bisley
as Harry M. Miller
Johnny Brady
as Tim
Roz Hammond
as Kathleen Whitta
Kodi Smit-McPhee
as Young John Wesley
Angus Sampson
as Ugly Dave Gray
Morgan Baker
as David
Graham Kennedy
as Himself (archive footage)
Tony Barber
as Himself (archive footage)
