Ned Kelly the Kelly Gang", the world's first dramatic feature-length film. Among those who have portrayed him on screen are Australian rules football player Bob Chitty ("The Glenrowan Affair", 1951), rock musician Mick Jagger ("Ned Kelly", 1970) and Heath Ledger ("Ned Kelly", 2003). In the visual arts, Sidney Nolan's 1946–47 Kelly series is considered "one of the greatest sequences of Australian painting of the twentieth century". His stylised depiction of Kelly's helmet has become an iconic Australian image; hundreds of performers dressed as "Nolanesque Kellys" starred in the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001, Peter Carey won the
Ned Kelly (play) of all too tricky camera effects." Ned Kelly (play) Ned Kelly is a 1942 radio play by Douglas Stewart about the outlaw Ned Kelly. It was later adapted into a stage play. The play was first produced as a radio play on the ABC, 21 June 1942. It became a stage play presented by the Sydney University Dramatic Society, 14 October 1942. It was performed in Melbourne in 1944. The stage version was professionally produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1956 with Leo McKern. The play was adapted for Australian TV in 1959 by the ABC. It focused