| Based On: | play by Campbell Christie Dorothy Christie |
| Director: | Alan Burke |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes[1] |
| Released: | [2] |
His Excellency is a 1958 Australian television film.
It was based on a play which had been previously adapted into a 1952 film, His Excellency.
The play was performed in Australia in 1953.[3]
An ex-docker is appointed governor of a British island colony.
It was Stewart Ginn's first appearance in a TV play. It was directed by Alan Burke who had just done Rose without a Thorn for the ABC and directed Look Back in Anger on stage for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Burke went on to become one of the ABC"s leading directors.[4]