Max Gillies
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
The Coca-Cola Kid
as Frank Hunter 1985
Stork
as Uncle Jack 1971
Libido
1973
The True Story of Eskimo Nell
as Dead Eye Dick 1975
As Time Goes By
as Joe Bogart / The Alien 1988
The Great MacArthy
as Stan 1975
Dalmas
as Rojack 1973
Dimboola
as Vivian Worcester-Jones 1979
The Firm Man
as Managing Director 1975
Lust and Revenge
as Art Critic 1996
Rubbish
as (voice) 1982
The Trespassers
as Publisher 1976
Megalomedia
as Town Crier 1981
Wil
as The Therapist 2006
Dimboola: The Stage Play
as Bayonet 1973