Clowning Around

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Clowning Around
Directed by	George Whaly
Starring	Clayton Williamson Annie Byron Jean-Michel Dagory Ernie Dingo Van Johnson Rebecca Smart Noni Hazlehurst Jill Perryman
Distributed by	ABC
Release date(s)	1992
Running time	165 minutes
Country	Australia France USA
Language	English
Followed by	Clowning Around 2
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Clowning Around is an Australian family film that was shot on location in Perth, Western Australia and Paris, France in 1991.

The film was produced by independent film company Barron Entertainment Films in Western Australia and educational film company WonderWorks in the United States, and was directed by George Whaley. It was distributed by ABC in Australia. It featured Australian actors such as Clayton Williamson, Noni Hazelhurst, Ernie Dingo, Rebecca Smart & Jill Perryman. It also featured veteran American film actor Van Johnson, and French actor Jean-Michel Dagory. It is perhaps the earliest film role for Heath Ledger, who would later appear in Blackrock (1997) with Smart and Candy (2006) with Hazlehurst. Ledger's role appeared in the last ten minutes, of which he played an orphan clown who closes the film by delivering the film's final lines. This series was followed up with a sequel a year later (Clowning Around 2, filmed in 1992).

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Simon Gunner (Clayton Williamson), is a starstruck kid who aspires to become a circus clown. With the help of veteran funster Jack Merrick (Ernie Dingo), Simon ultimately fulfills his goal.