1. Gary Files was born on 13 September 1938 and is an Australian-Canadian actor, theatre director and radio writer who has worked in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
21 Facts About Gary Files
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Resident in Australia since 1976, Files is noted for the accentual versatility of his radio-based voice acting.
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Gary Files subsequently joined John Hirsch's Manitoba Theatre Company for one season, during which time he appeared in The Taming of the Shrew with Len Cariou, and Mother Courage with Zoe Caldwell.
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Gary Files then left Canada to pursue his career in the United Kingdom for the next four years.
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Gary Files started working in CBC radio drama with several productions for Rupert Kaplan, who was one of the first to do Eugene O'Neill's plays on radio.
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Gary Files appeared in two films for the National Film Board of Canada, Henry Hudson and The Selkirk Settlers.
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Gary Files appeared in the MGM film The Dirty Dozen.
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On returning to Canada, Gary Files joined the company of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre for three plays Hail Skrawdyke, Harry Noon and Night and The Snow Queen.
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Gary Files then joined the Stratford National Theatre at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, to play the lead in The Hostage, and appeared in three plays by Mrozek.
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Gary Files then joined the Stratford Festival Company for two plays: The Italian Straw Hat and There's One in Every Marriage.
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Gary Files began a writing career with CBC Radio, beginning with several programmes in the series The Age of Elegance, then three programmes in The Bush and the Salon series, as well as adapting the science-fiction classics Gas Mask and Tomorrow's Child.
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Gary Files has toured Tasmania with the period instrument group Nuove Musiche Ensemble reading Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and prose.
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Gary Files has appeared in several Australian films, Money Movers, The Club, Evil Angels, Mull and Dead End.
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Gary Files has appeared in over 35 television series and features for Australian television, the most memorable being Desert Foxes, Corp.
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Gary Files played Raymon Radley in both of the animated TV series of Dogstar.
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Gary Files started directing in 1993 when he co-founded the Period Pieces Company in an effort to revive classical theatre in Melbourne as it should be experienced.
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Gary Files has directed There's One in Every Marriage, The Medieval Mystery Plays, A Flea in Her Ear, Trelawny of the "Wells", When We Are Married, Rookery Nook.
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In 1998 Gary Files was artistic director of Crossing the Line, doing performed readings of plays by screenwriters at the Melbourne Writer's Festival at the Malthouse.
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Gary Files directed the play Allison's Rub for La Mama and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and has since directed Dorothy Parker Says for Michele Stayner at the Chapel Off Chapel.
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Gary Files wrote and performed two programmes for the National Gallery of Victoria: Wedgewood - An 18th Century First and The Spirit of Art.
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Gary Files wrote and performed an episode of the ABC-Radio series Hindsight: "To The Ends of the Earth", about Australia's Canadian convicts.