Ken G. Hall

Ken G. Hall was born on 22 February 1901 in Paddington, Sydney. A trainee journalist at the Evening News in 1916, he moved to the publicity department of the Union Theatres cinema chain, then to First National. After the success of his first fiction films, he became director, producer and filmmaker of the Cinesound studio, for which he made fifteen to eighteen films until 1946. His wartime documentary of 1942 won Australia its first Oscar. He then ran the Nine television network in Sydney, from 1956 to the mid-sixties, and died on 8 February 1994.

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• CinemaOn Our SelectionKen G. Hall · 1932Cinema