Cathy's Child is a 1979 Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie and starring Michele Fawdon, Alan Cassell and Bryan Brown.
Cathy Baikas (Fawdon) is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter.
A reporter (Cassell) on the Hotline column of The Sun, a major daily newspaper, proves sympathetic to Cathy's problem and begins giving her case press coverage, because the same situation had happened to him.
On 14 January 1973, Greek-born John Baikas left Australia for Athens, taking his daughter Maris with him on a forged passport.
Money had been allocated in the budget for an overseas actor to play the Australian consul in Greece, but the filmmakers were unable to find anyone for an appropriate price and Willie Fennell took the role.
In 1996 Donald Crombie said the film was his favourite of all the features he had made: Mainly because I think we were extraordinarily successful in creating that character, Cathy Bikos.