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
Frank Wilson (Australian actor) Frank in "Travelling North" for Wilson, having admired his interpretation of Jock Riley in "The Club". However, after creating Frank on stage, Wilson was not given the role in the film adaptation — it went to Leo McKern instead. He won a Logie Award for Best Compere in 1972 for "New Faces". His last role, in the short film "The Chess Set" (by Alexander Murawski) won the Best Actor award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Wilson heard this news the day before he died. Wilson and his wife Beryl had 4 children: Amanda, Damien (dec),