Garry George McDonald AO was born on 30 October 1948 and is an Australian actor, satirist and comedian.
14 Facts About Garry McDonald
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Garry McDonald is best known as the seemingly naive celebrity interviewer Norman Gunston, through whom he pioneered the "ambush interviewer" technique since followed by many others.
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Garry McDonald received a Gold Logie award for the television Norman Gunston Show in which he developed the character.
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Garry McDonald is famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom Mother and Son.
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Garry McDonald further developed the character in the Norman Gunston Show, for which he won a Gold Logie.
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Garry McDonald played Arthur Beare in the television series Mother and Son, starring alongside Ruth Cracknell over six seasons from 1984 until 1994.
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Garry McDonald won several Logie Awards for his role in the show.
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Garry McDonald joined the cast of the drama series Offspring in 2012 and was a series regular.
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Garry McDonald is an ambassador and former board director of Beyond Blue, an Australian national depression initiative.
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Garry McDonald serves as patron of the New South Wales branch of the Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia.
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Garry McDonald is quoted in the press discussing a link between his own anxiety and that of his grandfather and mother.
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Garry McDonald's condition caused him to withdraw from the 2003 production of Patrick Marber's Howard Katz.
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Two portraits of Garry McDonald have won awards at the Archibald Prize.
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In 2016, yet another painting of Garry McDonald was a finalist in the Archibald Prize by Kirsty Neilson entitled There's No Humour in Darkness.