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Ken G Hall, master showman

Feature film curator Paul Byrnes celebrates the life and work of Ken G Hall – the man who directed an unprecedented string of box-office hits in the 1930s and ’40s and helped launch the careers of internationally successful stars like Peter Finch and Cecil Kellaway.

Today – 22 February – is Ken G Hall’s birthday.

The portrait includes a comprehensive Screenography and Extras gallery. There’s also an interview with Ken G Hall in The 1930s Golden Era of Australian Movies: A Tribute to Ken G Hall AO OBE (1988), and he features in Paul’s portraits of George Wallace and Charles Chauvel.

The Broken Melody feature film – 1938

The Squatter’s Daughter feature film – 1933

Smithy feature film – 1946

Mr Chedworth Steps Out feature film – 1939

Ghosts of Port Arthur documentary – c1932

Strike Me Lucky feature film – 1934

South-west Pacific sponsored film – 1943

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