About Garry McDonald
Garry George McDonald AO is an Australian comedian, television host, actor, satirist and mental health activist. In a career spanning six decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is best known as the seemingly naive celebrity interviewer Norman Gunston, through whom he pioneered the "ambush interviewer" technique since followed by many others. He received a Gold Logie award for the television Norman Gunston Show in which he developed the character and is a Logie Hall of Fame inductee. He is also famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom Mother and Son, as well as his numerous surporting roles in feature films. It was while working on The Aunty Jack Show in 1973, that McDonald first performed the character for which he became best-known, the gauche and inept TV personality Norman Gunston. McDonald further developed the character in the Norman Gunston Show, for which he won a Gold Logie.
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