Behind the Legend
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Created byJohn Martin
Written byThomas Keneally
Cliff Green
Cliff Green
Presented byManning Clark
Country of originAustralia
| Behind the Legend | |
|---|---|
| Created by | John Martin |
| Written by | Thomas Keneally Cliff Green |
| Presented by | Manning Clark |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 38 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Alan Burke |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 18 September 1972 – 1975 |
Behind the Legend is a 1972 anthology series based on the lives of various Australians hosted by Manning Clark.[1][2]
It was originally called The History Makers.[3]
Host
Recurring
- Barry Lovett as George Coppin / Dobie (S1–3, 3 episodes)
- Ben Gabriel as John Monash (S1&3, 2 episodes)
- James Condon as Wentworth (S1–3, 3 episodes)
- Joe James as Walter Burley Griffin (S2&3, 2 episodes)
- John Hargreaves as Tom Roberts (S1&3, 2 episodes)
- Joseph Fürst as Ferdinand von Mueller (S2&3, 2 episodes)
- Ken Fraser as Charles Fitzroy (S1&2, 2 episodes)
- Michael Long as Heir (S1&3, 2 episodes)
- Paul Bertram as Percy Grainger (S1&3, 2 episodes)
- Reg Evans as C. J. Dennis / John Shaw Neilson at 40 (S1&3, 2 episodes)
- Robyn Nevin (S2&3, 2 episodes)
- Terry Bader as Sidney Kidman (S1&3, 2 episodes)
Season One
- Anna Volska as Helena Rubinstein
- Anne Haddy as Caroline Chisholm
- Anne-Louise Lambert
- Barbara Frawley
- Bud Tingwell as Arthur Phillip
- Jack Thompson as Charles Kingsford-Smith
- John Frawley as Thomas Blamey
- John Orcsik
- Kate Fitzpatrick as Nellie Melba
- Keith Lee as Charles O'Connor
- Kevin Wilson as Les Darcy
- Mark Kelly as Douglas Mawson
- Max Phipps as member of Parliament
- Neil Fitzpatrick as Charles Ulm
- John Morris as J. F. Archibald
- Penne Hackforth-Jones as Helena Rubinstein
- Tim Eliott as Henry Lawson
- Tony Barry
Season Two
- Aileen Britton as Lady Mitchell
- Alister Smart as Frank Gardiner
- Brian James as Governor William Bligh
- Cornelia Frances
- Dennis Grosvenor as Kevin Todd
- Don Crosby as Protector of Aborigines
- Drew Forsythe as Ted Baxter
- Elizabeth Alexander as Elizabeth Kenny
- Frank Lloyd as Eddie Gilbert
- Graeme Blundell as Ray Parer
- Gordon Chater as Sir Thomas Mitchell
- Jack Charles as Eddie Gilbert
- John Ewart as Francis Greenway
- Lola Brooks as Mary Reibey
- Nick Tate as Captain Sanderson
- Nigel Lovell as John Flynn
- Peter Gwynne
- Richard Meikle
- Tony Allyn as Robert O'Hara Burke
- Max Osbiston
Season Three
- Andrew McFarlane
- Anna Hruby as Younger Sister
- Carole Skinner
- John Gaden as S. T. Gill
- John Fegan
- Judi Farr as Harriet
- Judy McBurney as Waitress
- Kevin Miles as G.V. Brooke
- Kit Taylor
- Lisa Peers as Annette Kellerman
- Liz Burch as Mary
- Liz Chance as Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson)
- Lynette Curran as Belle
- Margo Lee as Miss Brennan
- Mark Lee as Maurice Kellerman
- Melissa Jaffer
- Natalie Bate as Ann Rumsby
- Pamela Stephenson as Fanny Cathcart
- Paul Mason as Matthew Flinders
- Ralph Cotterill as Hal Gye
- Robin Ramsay as Marcus Clarke
- Wendy Hughes
- Wynn Roberts as Christopher Brennan
- Max Osbiston