The King

• 6.0 Drama
• 2007-05-20
• 100 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Stephen Curry (Graham Kennedy) Shaun Micallef (Colin Bednall) Garry McDonald (Nicky Whitta) Steve Bisley (Harry M. Miller) Stephen Hall (Bert Newton) Todd MacDonald (Richard Croft) Bernard Curry (John Wesley) Nick Farnell (Norm Spencer) Donal Forde (Geoff "Corkie" Corke) Leo Taylor (Sir Frank Packer)

Director:

Matthew Saville

Writer:

Jaime Browne Kris Mrksa