Ken G. Hall

Ken G. Hall ( Kenneth George Hall, born January 22, 1901 in Sydney / New South Wales, † February 8, 1994 ibid ) was an Australian film producer and director and screenwriter.

Hall was after visiting the North Sydney Boys' High School in 1916 a reporter for the Sydney Evening News. The following year he became an assistant to Gayne Dexter in the Department of Public Relations of the Union Theatres and Australasian Films. He also worked for the First National Pictures, which financed him in 1925 a study trip to Hollywood and New York.

Appeared in 1928 Halls first film The Exploits of the Emden. During this time he also met the actor Bert Bailey know. With him, he turned in 1930 when the production company Cinesound Productions, which he headed until the 1950s, a series of comedies about the Rudd family, which ran with great success. 1934 was the melodrama The Silence of Dan Maitland. During the Second World War, Hall made ​​several documentaries, including Kokoda Front Line! (1942 ), for which he won an Oscar as the first Australians.

Hall's biggest international success was Smithy (1946 ), a film biography of the Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith, which was distributed by Columbia Pictures. After J. Arthur Rank took over the leadership of Cinesound, Hall 1956, the first Australian television station.

Numerous actors were in movies by Hall their first major roles, including George Wallace, Shirley Ann Richards, Peter Finch, Ron Randell, Jocelyn Howarth, Rene Roy and Cecil Kellaway. Hall published two autobiographical books: Directed by Ken G. Hall ( 1970) and Australian Film: The Inside Story ( 1980).

Filmography

  • The Exploits of the Emden, Director, 1928
  • On Our Selection, director, screenplay, 1932
  • The Squatter's Daughter, producing, directing, 1933
  • Strike Me Lucky, producing, directing, 1934
  • The Silence of Dean Maitland, producing, directing, 1934
  • Cinesound Varieties, Director, 1934
  • Grandad Rudd, producing, directing, 1935
  • Thoroughbred, Director, 1936
  • Orphan of the Wilderness, producing, directing 1936
  • The Broken Melody, producing, directing, 1937
  • It Is not Done, Director, 1937
  • Tall Timbers, producing, directing, 1937
  • Let George Do It, Director, 1938
  • Lovers and Luggers, producing, directing, 1938
  • Dad and Dave Come to Town, producing, directing, screenplay, 1938
  • Gone to the Dogs, production, direction, 1939
  • Mr. Chedworth Steps Out, Director, 1939
  • Dad Rudd, M. P., producing, directing, 1940
  • Kokoda Front Line! , Production, production, 1942
  • 100,000 Cobbers, producing, directing, 1942
  • Moresby Under the Blitz, Director, 1942
  • Smithy, director, screenplay, 1946
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