1. Reg Grundy was the producer of various Australian game shows, such as Blankety Blanks and Wheel of Fortune before later diversifying into soap operas and serials including Prisoner, The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours, the last of which was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2005.
Reginald Roy Grundy was born on 4 August 1923 in Sydney, New South Wales, to Roy Grundy and Lillian Lees.
Reg Grundy enlisted in December 1941 and was discharged in August 1946.
Reg Grundy started his media career as a boxing and general sports commentator for the Sydney radio station 2SM in 1947.
Reg Grundy founded his own production company Reg Grundy Enterprises in 1960, and began producing game shows for the Australian and overseas market, before eventually branching out into drama in 1973.
Reg Grundy produced several successful television soap operas and drama series, including Class of '74, The Restless Years, The Young Doctors, Prisoner, Glenview High, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours.
Reg Grundy was the first person to sell an Australian drama to America and the first to sell an Australian quiz show to the UK.
Reg Grundy subsequently started the US-based company Reg Grundy Productions, which produced the 1980s NBC daytime game shows Sale of the Century and Scrabble, as well as Time Machine for NBC, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak for ABC, and Scattergories.
The Reg Grundy Organisation was ultimately owned by Reg Grundy Worldwide Ltd, based in the tax haven of Bermuda.
Reg Grundy owned the private media investment company RG Capital, which had shares in several FM radio stations.
Reg Grundy had shares in WAM Capital, Austereo, Argus Solutions and Photon Group.
Reg Grundy published a book of photographs in 2005, The Wildlife of Reg Grundy.
Reg Grundy married Patricia Lola Powell in 1954 and they had a daughter, Kim.
Reg Grundy was the owner of a yacht named Boadicea, which was sold in 2009.
Reg Grundy died on 6 May 2016 at his Bermuda home, with his family by his side.
Reg Grundy only gave one television interview in his life, and I was privileged and fascinated to be the one who spoke with him.
Ian Hogg, whose company bought Reg Grundy Organisation, announced that FremantleMedia were thinking of a permanent way to honour Reg Grundy.
Reg Grundy was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Years Honours of 1983.
Reg Grundy was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2008.
Reg Grundy received the International Emmy Founders Award in 1996 and the AFI Raymond Longford Award in 2010.