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T H E GEORGE WALLACE STORY

Acknowledgement: - Director DON PERCY for Production details

A painter, a musician, a skilled tap dancer and a composer OLD DAYS and heard him on radio in THE GEORGE
- who gave Australia its wartime anthem "A BROWN WALLACE BARN DANCE. Jim always found him funny
SLOUCH HAT" ... add to that a creative force who wrote - a "dinky-di" Australian - an "ocker" before anyone knew
his own material from vaudeville sketches to feature film the meaning of the word.
scripts. and you have GEORGE WALLACE.

The story of this most respected man titled FUNNY BY
GEORGE was shown on the ABC at 8.30 pm on Wednes-
day April 12, 2000. l feel all who saw this fine documen-
tary could not fail to be impressed by the high production
values of Onkus Pictures who produced this show. The fol-
lowing is some background information on the lead-up to
the making of this documentary.

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Jim felt that as a matter of national pride - it was important
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ROBYN PAYNE
for the George Wallace story to be properly documented.
Ro;e.vch
IAN WOODWARD He and researcher lAN WOODWARD began to compile
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Q.IVtSOWR\' as much information as tbey could about George by speak-
GRAt·tAM SHIRlfY
OONP£RCY ing to a number of his contemporaries and tracking down
liM MURPHY
fan1jJy members.
lnu.~tvie\ .. et
PATTI AllEN CHRIS lONG
GWEN DEAMER CElESTINE McDERMOTT
MIO<I 000 lACK MURRAY
ST[VIE 000 CHARlES NORMAN In 1994, Murphy was working at ABC-TV when he met
O~MONOE DOUGlAS IRIS SHAND
Bill F~ENCH FRANK VANSTRATEN""~ actor JEREMY KEWLEY in the ABC canteen. He men-
MAX GilLIES GEO~GIA WAl\ACE
Bill KERR JEfFREY WALlACE tioned his "George Wallace Project" and said that what he
•:nd
really needed now was a producer and director to "bring it
RITA WALlACE
all together". Kewley surprised Murphy by telling him that
he'd been working as a producer for eight years with his
friend and business partner DON PERCY.
Director DON PERCY was a great fan of Laurel and Hardy,
Writer JIM MURPHY (The Listener In-TV, 2 on the Aisle, Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Thus he was quite
Green Guide, etc.) had been a fan of George Wallace since excited at the prospect of commirtjng the life story of George
his childhood, when he saw him on stage in THE GOOD Wallace to fiJm.
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