His Excellency (1958 film)

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.