His Excellency is a 1958 Australian television film.
It was based on a play which had been previously adapted into a 1952 film, His Excellency.
The play was performed in Australia in 1953.
Plot An ex-docker is appointed governor of a British island colony.
Cast Stewart Ginn as the Governor Harvey Adams Lola Brooks Ric Hutton John Juson Eric Reiman John Tate Owen Weingott
Production It was Stewart Ginn's first appearance in a TV play. It was directed by Alan Burke who had just done Rose without a Thorn for the ABC and directed Look Back in Anger on stage for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Burke went on to become one of the ABC"s leading directors.
See also List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)
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