The King (2007)

6.0/10 • 100 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

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.

Cast

Stephen Curry

Graham Kennedy

Shaun Micallef

Colin Bednall

Garry McDonald

Nicky Whitta

Steve Bisley

Harry M. Miller

Todd MacDonald

Richard Croft

Bernard Curry

John Wesley

Nick Farnell

Norm Spencer

Johnny Brady

Tim

Monica Maughan

Nana Scott

Roz Hammond

Kathleen Whitta

Jane Allsop

Noeline Brown

Beth Buchanan

Val Wesley

Cathy Godbold

Rosemary Margan

Louis Corbett

Young Graham Kennedy

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Young John Wesley

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