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
Mark Pegg (actor) Mark Pegg (actor) Mark Pegg is a British actor and film producer. He first came to prominence as Detective Constable Tony Weir in the BBC production Our Friends in the North and has since appeared in many television and stage productions, including Frank Hauser's Chichester Festival Theatre's 1995 production of Hobson's Choice with Leo McKern.<ref name="http://www.cft.org.uk/1995"></ref> He trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London. In 2006, he produced the feature film Heroes and Villains which starred James Corden and Jenny Agutter,<ref name="http://www.screendaily.com"></ref> and in 2007 he was the Executive Producer on Stuart Urban's Tovarisch, I Am