Max Gillies
Date of birth: 1941-11-16
Place of birth: Melbourne, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
Movie Credits
The Cars That Ate Paris
1974-10-10
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuab
Rubbish
1982-01-01
A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
The Great MacArthy
1975-08-04
Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colone
The Trespassers
1976-08-18
In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The
The Coca-Cola Kid
1985-07-14
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market pe
Megalomedia
1981-01-01
A satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we be
Libido
1973-04-06
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and
Wil
2006-10-19
Set entirely inside a lift, which represents the inside of Wil Schindel's head, this comically philo
Dimboola: The Stage Play
1973-05-22
A recording of the Australian Performing Group's performance of their first professional production
Stork
1971-12-27
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary
Dalmas
1973-11-15
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avan
The True Story of Eskimo Nell
1975-03-27
The bawdy saga of the most infamous whomper of all time.
Dimboola
1979-05-11
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
The Firm Man
1975-04-09
Businessman Gerald Barker is invited to join a mysterious super corporation known as The Firm. His w
The Sounds of Aus
2007-11-08
The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved ov
As Time Goes By
1988-09-29
A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a