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Graham Kennedy highlights
Celebrating the life and work of Graham Kennedy, 'The King' of Australian television. The boy from Balaclava conquered the small screen, and for four decades was Australia's greatest television star...
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Graham Kennedy film
The king of the small screen also made a brief but successful transition to the big screen. Graham Kennedy always aspired to be a film actor; to him, acting in films was 'travelling first class',...
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Vale George Ogilvie
George Ogilvie – widely recognised as one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre, film and television directors – passed away peacefully on 5 April 2020.
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The McDonagh Sisters: Australian filmmaking pioneers
For International Women's Day, we present a portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.
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Damon Herriman
From a child actor in 'The Sullivans' to playing Dewey Crowe in 'Justified', Damon Herriman's oral history covers his long and varied acting career from the 1970s to now.
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Starstruck: a portrait of actress Pearl Schweig
Jennifer Coombes explores the life of Pearl Schweig, an actress from the 1930s Cinesound casting books who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.
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Starstruck casting books
These 1930s Cinesound casting books form the heart of the NFSA and National Portrait Gallery collaborative exhibition, 'Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits'.
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2014 at the NFSA, Part 1
Tens of thousands of items are collected by the NFSA each year. What did we collect in 2014? Part 1 includes elephant heads, fake moustaches and the wild one.
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NFSA Connects with Aden Young
NFSA Connects with actor Aden Young and film director Ian Darling.
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NFSA connects with Aden Young
Director-producer Ian Darling and actor Aden Young discuss 'In the Company of Actors' with school students as part of a NFSA Connects videoconference. Watch videos from the event.
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