Graham 'Grace' Walker

Graham 'Grace' Walker was born in 1941, where his father was a businessman, owner of the local newspaper and sometime mayor of the local Municipality of Mosman. Brought up in Sydney he first entered the world of entertainment as an assistant in the property department on the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo in the 1960s and became a property buyer for film and television. His first credit in the art department was as props buyer and set dresser on Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock. He was later assistant art director on the period drama film 'Caddie' in 1976 and took his first credit as production designer on the mystery 'Summerfield'. Since then he has worked on many Australian cinematic exports including 'Dead Calm' and 'The Coca-Cola Kid' for which he was nominated for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Awards' the Australian equivalent of the Oscar, receiving one for 'Mad Max 2'. He also took an acting role in one of the most successful films of all time from Australia, 'Crocodile Dundee'.