Max Gillies
Born: 1941-11-16 in Melbourne, Australia
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2019
- Bloom as Archbishop Gibson
2007
- The Sounds of Aus as Self
2006
- Wil as The Therapist
1998
- All Saints as Ian Benson
1993
- Blue Heelers as Bill Foster
1988
- As Time Goes By as Joe Bogart / The Alien
1985
- The Coca-Cola Kid as Frank Hunter
1982
- Rubbish as (voice)
1981
- Megalomedia as Town Crier
1979
- Dimboola as Vivian Worcester-Jones
1976
- The Trespassers as Publisher
1975
- The Great MacArthy as Stan
- The True Story of Eskimo Nell as Dead Eye Dick
- The Firm Man as Managing Director
1974
- The Cars That Ate Paris as Metcalfe
1973
- Dalmas as Rojack
- Libido
- Dimboola: The Stage Play as Bayonet
1971
- Stork as Uncle Jack