Travelling North Film Festival awarded the Best Actor award to Leo McKern. "Travelling North" grossed $1,464,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $2,942,640 in 2009 dollars. Travelling North Travelling North is a 1987 film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Leo McKern, Julia Blake, and Graham Kennedy. Based on an original 1979 play of the same name by David Williamson, it is one of Williamson's favourite movies based on his works. An aged couple decide to move from Melbourne to north Queensland. The David Williamson play "Travelling North" premiered in 1979, the year that Williamson moved from Melbourne
Leo Genn Leo Genn Leopold John "Leo" Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. He is perhaps best known for his role as Petronius in the 1951 film "Quo Vadis", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Genn was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, the son of Woolfe (William) Genn, a jewellery salesman, and Rachel Genn (née Asserson). His parents were both Jewish. Genn attended the City of London School and studied law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, qualifying as a barrister in 1928. He ceased practising