Grandad Rudd

Grandad Rudd
Directed byKen G. Hall
Written byVic Roberts
George D. Parker
Based onplay by Steele Rudd
stories Grandpa's Selection and Our New Selection by Steele Rudd
Produced byKen G. Hall
StarringBert Bailey
Fred MacDonald
CinematographyFrank Hurley
George Heath
Edited byWilliam Shepherd
Production
company
Release date
  • February 1935 (1935-02)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£8,000[1][2] or £15,000[3][4]
Box office£18,000[2] or £20,000[5]

Grandad Rudd is a 1935 comedy featuring the Dad and Dave characters created by Steele Rudd and based on a play by Rudd. It was a sequel to On Our Selection, and was later followed by Dad and Dave Come to Town and Dad Rudd, MP.

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  2. ^ a b "Bert Bailey Started in Melodrama And Made A Fortune From A Beard". The Sunday Herald. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 5 April 1953. p. 12. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  3. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 169.
  4. ^ Pike, Andrew Franklin. "The History of an Australian Film Production Company: Cinesound, 1932-70" (PDF). Australian National University. p. 245.
  5. ^ "CINESOUND CAVALCADE", The Home: An Australian Quarterly, 18 (6), Sydney: Art in Australia, 1 June 1937, nla.obj-389169660, retrieved 2 May 2023 – via Trove