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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

18

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-11-16 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Melbourne, Australia

Also Known As

Max Gillies

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Max Gillies AM (born 16 November 1941 in Melbourne) is an Australian actor. Gillies was a founding member of the experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group, which was active throughout the 1970s. In 1984 and 1985 he hosted the television program The Gillies Report, on the ABC. This was followed in 1986 by Gillies Republic and in 1992 by Gillies and Company. He was famous for being able to dress up and parody mercilessly a wide range of political figures, both in these television series and in two live solo theatrical performances he delivered later – The Big Con, and You're Dreaming. In July 2008 Gillies resurrected his caricatures of Australia's former Prime Ministers in a in a live production of No Country for Old PMs: An Evening with Max Gillies at the Noosa Long Weekend festival. He said in an interview with The Courier-Mail that he and co-writer Guy Rundle were also watching Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a possible new caricature in a new production being developed. "I'm watching him closely," he said. Gillies became a Member of the Order of Australia in 1990. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Gillies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Acting

Rubbish

1982

Rubbish

as

(voice)

The Trespassers

1976

The Trespassers

as

Publisher

The Coca-Cola Kid

1985

The Coca-Cola Kid

as

Frank Hunter

Megalomedia

1981

Megalomedia

as

Town Crier

Libido

1973

Libido

as

Wil

2006

Wil

as

The Therapist

Stork

1971

Stork

as

Uncle Jack

Dalmas

1973

Dalmas

as

Rojack

Dimboola

1979

Dimboola

as

Vivian Worcester-Jones

The Firm Man

1975

The Firm Man

as

Managing Director

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers

as

Bill Foster

Bloom

Bloom

as

Archbishop Gibson

All Saints

All Saints

as

Ian Benson

Production

Crew

Directing