The King
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.
Director Matthew Saville
Cast
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Young John Wesley
Tony Barber
Himself (archive footage)
Graham Kennedy
Himself (archive footage)
Bert Newton
Himself (archive footage)
Thomas M. Wright
Alfie
Bernard Curry
John Wesley
Nick Farnell
Norm Spencer
Johnny Brady
Tim
Monica Maughan
Nana Scott
Steve Bisley
Harry M. Miller
Todd MacDonald
Richard Croft
Beth Buchanan
Val Wesley
Morgan Baker
David
Cathy Godbold
Rosemary Margan
Angus Sampson
Ugly Dave Gray
Stephen Curry
Graham Kennedy
Shaun Micallef
Colin Bednall
Garry McDonald
Nicky Whitta
Roz Hammond
Kathleen Whitta
Jane Allsop
Noeline Brown
Louis Corbett
Young Graham Kennedy