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Article: Obituary: Ken G. Hall
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 11, 1994
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Kenneth George Hall, film and television producer and director:
born Sydney 22 February 1901; OBE 1972; married 1925 Irene Addison
(died 1972); died Sydney 8 February 1994.
KEN G. HALL was the last of Australia's great film pioneers. He
won Australia's first Oscar, gave Peter Finch his first film role
and, with 19 feature films to his credit, remains the country's
most prolific producer-director.
Fifty years before the latest revival of Australian cinema began
in the 1970s, Hall was producing films whose hallmark was
entertainment. He had contempt for much of Australian cinema's new
wave, the government funding which supported it and directors who
tried to give their films "messages". Hall ...