Graham Kennedy

Graham Kennedy

Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra (pronounced "gray-gray") and The King of Australian television.

Read more about Graham Kennedy:  Television Career, Film Career, Personal Life, Retirement, Ill-health, Decline, Death, Legacy

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Graham Kennedy - Legacy - Telemovie The King
... A telemovie examining Kennedy's life titled The King began filming in December 2006 ... It stars Stephen Curry as Kennedy and Stephen Hall as Bert Newton, with Garry McDonald, Shaun Micallef, Steve Bisley, Jane Allsop as Noeline Brown, Beau Brady, Leo Taylor as Sir Frank Packer, and Bernard Curry ... (becoming the highest-rating drama to be shown on pay-TV) to heavy criticism by Kennedy's friends ...
Television In Australia - History - 1960s
59% of the audience), the rural soap opera Bellbird on the ABC (1967), and for interstate viewers Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight or the Graham ... Winners of the first nationally-shown TV Week Logie Awards included In Melbourne Tonight host Graham Kennedy – twice, Pick-a-box host Bob Dyer, Lorrae Desmond from ABC's The Lorrae Desmond Show, Four Corners ...
Bert Newton - Television - Early Television Career
... appearing in a live commercial on In Melbourne Tonight with his friend Graham Kennedy at Easter 1959, he began to make regular appearances on the show and ... This began a lifelong association with Kennedy ... In 1960 and 1961, Newton, along with Graham Kennedy, appeared in the national Graham Kennedy's Channel 9 Show (a one-night-a-week national version of IMT) ...
The Graham Kennedy Show
... The Graham Kennedy Show was an Australian talk show that debuted on 19 September 1972, on the Nine Network ... On 23 December 1969, host Graham Kennedy has quit as host of In Melbourne Tonight, exhausted, and rested for two years ... Kennedy sparked controversy after a "crow-call", which sounded highly reminiscent of the word fuck, was broadcast in March 1975 (see below) ...

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